We have a preview of the Big Ears Festival 2022. Founder Ashley Capps tells us about some highlights of the line-up that includes Patti Smith, John Zorn and Meredith Monk.
Coming Up
Monday, Jan 24, 2022 – Big Ears Festival Preview
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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.
Reviews & Commentary
Big Ears Festival 2020 Announced
The Big Ears Festival returns in 2020 with another overwhelmingly impressive roster of artists pushing the avant-garde fringes past, present future. John Diliberto takes a quick survey.
Reviews & Commentary
Review: Big Ears Festival 2019 Expands Auricles
The Big Ears Festival took place in Knoxville this past weekend, March 21-24. John Diliberto dove in, attending 24 concerts of bleeding edge music and gentle refrains. Read his review.
Reviews & Commentary
Big Ears Festival 2019’s Extraordinary Line-Up
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.
Program Highlights
Ascend the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit on Echoes.
Tonight on Echoes we talk to Ashley Capps, Producer of the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit There are many electronic music festivals out there from the Detroit Music Festival to the Ultra Music Festival. But none have the breadth of acts you’ll find at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit, the successor to Moogfest in…
Reviews & Commentary
MOOGFest
MOOGfest, a festival celebrating the invention of Robert Moog will be taking place October 29-31 in Asheville, NC. It’s being produced by the same people who produce Bonnaroo and the early line-up suggests it might be a little more mainstream than I’d like. Hopefully they’ll expand their musical horizons a bit. Good opportunity to have…