Big Ears Festival 2019 brings another slate of diverse and adventurous music to their 2019 event. Read about the final lineup which includes Nils Frahm, Harold Budd and Spiritualized.
The Necks are a piano trio from Australia, with a new recording, called Body. Since their 1989 debut, Sex, the group has specialized in a brand of intuitive improvisation.
The Irish supergroup The Gloaming is bringing traditional Celtic music into a chamber 21st century sound. We talk to founders Iarla O’Lionaird and Martin Hayes.
The Necks are a piano trio from Australia, a description that says nothing about their music.
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John Luther Adams talks about his award-winning composition, Become Ocean, and his decision to leave Alaska in the Echoes Podcast.
Drones, lconic alt-rock group out of depth. More drones. Charming elders of the old vanguard. A master of pink noise and symphonic expanse. Drones. Celtic aires. Gothic metal. Only at the 2016 Big Ears Festival.
We hear features from 7 of the performers at Big Ears 2015 including Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Max Richter, William Tyler, Silver Apples, and Bill Frisell.
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Big Ears is one of the most expansive, eclectic and challenging music festivals in the world. In downtown Knoxville Tennessee, musicians from around the world and across genres convene in concerts that test the limits of sound and music.
Ashley Capps created the Bonaroo Festival, but at the other end of the spectrum, he’s also created Big Ears, a festival in Knoxville that embraces Sun Ra, Yo La Tengo, Philip Glass and The Gloaming’s Celtic aires.
The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville brought together an array of musicians from the bleeding edge of the avant-garde to the cutting edge of rock and folk. Kronos Quartet presided over this meeting ground of Vanguard music that included Laurie Anderson, Wu Man, Terry Riley, Rhiannon Giddens and much much more.