John Diliberto takes you on the music high of Big Ears 2025 exploring music by the artists he experienced at the festival across its four days and over 100 acts.
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Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 – Echoes Program 2514C
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Wednesday, Apr 9, 2025 – Big Ears Festival 2025
John Diliberto takes you on the music high of Big Ears 2025, exploring music by the artists he experienced at the festival across its four days and over 100 acts.
Reviews & Commentary
Big Ears Festival 2024 Review
The Big Ears Festival 2024 maintained its reputation for eclecticism, bleeding edge music and some of the most sublime sounds this side of paradise. John Diliberto took it all in.
Reviews & Commentary
Notes From Big Ears 2022 pt.2: John Zorn
At Big Ears Festival 2022, John Zorn was the featured artist with multiple performances highlighting his vast expanse of music from pipe organ solos to electric assaults.
News
Notes from Big Ears Festival 2022 Pt.1
The Big Ears Festival is a monstrous affair of cutting edge music. This year saw some 150 artists performing including Patti Smith, John Zorn, Jason Moran and more. Here’s a random account.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast Big Ears Festival 2020 & Jon Christensen In Memoriam
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Big Ears Festival 2020 Preview and Jon Christensen Remembered this Week in Echoes Podcast https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/EchoesPodcast-BigEars2020-JonChristensen.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast, we talk to Ashley Capps about his Big Ears 2020 Festival. Then we remember drummer Jon Christensen, the ECM house drummer. The Big Ears Music Festival 2020 is upon…
Playlists
Tuesday, Feb 11, 2020 – Echoes Program 2006B
We talk to Big Ears Music Festival founder Ashley Capps about 2020’s collection of over 100 artists including Terry Riley, Patti Smith, and especially, artists you’ve never heard before.
Coming Up
Weekend, Feb 15-16, 2020 – Taimane Live and Big Ears
This weekend on Echoes, Hawaii’s Taimane brings us her modern take on the Ukelele when she plays live. We’ll also hear a preview of Big Ears Festival 2020, talking to founder Ashley Capps.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Feb 11, 2020 – Big Ears 2020 Preview
We talk to Big Ears Music Festival founder Ashley Capps about 2020’s collection of over 100 artists including Terry Riley, Patti Smith, and especially, artists you’ve never heard before.
Playlists
Thursday, Dec 19, 2019 – Echoes Program 1951D
Mary Lattimore is a diva of new music harp who has performed with Harold Budd, Kurt Vile, Thurston Moore and dozens of others with her electric instrument. We talk about ambient harp.