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Nestled in Knoxville’s intimate and historic downtown, festival goers are offered nearly 200 performances during the festival—at restored historic theaters, soaring churches, refurbished warehouse spaces, museums, galleries, and clubs—with pop-up events and performances, exhibitions, films, literary readings, workshops, markets and talks taking place in cafes, bars, hotels, restaurants, in alleyways and other nooks and crannies of the city. The festival experience is full of surprises.
A festival pass offers access to all publicly announced performances—enabling festival goers to not only see familiar artists that they know and love, but also to explore the music of artists with whom they are not already familiar.
With a very rare exception, everything—all of the venues, along with Knoxville’s finest hotels and award-winning restaurants—is within an easy, short walk of everything else, with a dedicated festival trolley service offering assistance should you wish to rest up for a moment and catch your breath.
While no two Big Ears are quite the same, each year the festival presents many of the world’s most visionary composers and musicians, artists whose work reaches for new heights and expands to new frontiers. The programming transcends generation and genre—bringing together iconic trailblazers and young iconoclasts performing and sometimes blending classical and contemporary composition, jazz, rock, folk traditions from throughout the world, pop, drone, avant-garde, ambient and beyond.
Previous performers and attendees have included John Luther Adams, Laurie Anderson, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Gavin Bryars, Bryce Dessner, eighth blackbird, Bela Fleck, Philip Glass, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Milford Graves, Jonny Greenwood, Mary Halvorson, Jon Hassell, Vijay Iyer, Kayhan Kalhor, Kronos Quartet, Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, Meredith Monk, Jason Moran, the National, the Necks, Joanna Newsom, Angel Olsen, Evan Parker, The Punch Brothers, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Wadada Leo Smith, Sons of Kemet, St. Vincent, Supersilent, Swans, Wilco, and hundreds of others.
Brian Eno Kamasi Washington Dirty Three Arooj Aftab Jessica Pratt Sumac + Moor Mother Kiamos Nala Sinephro Lankum Still House Plants Kneecap Mabe Fratti Beings (Zoh Amba, Steve Gunn, Jim White, & Shahzad Ismaily) Chanel Beads
Post by Nathan Fieldcяab on May 13, 2024 17:18:17 GMT -5
Not sure if the Kilby show was a true one-off or an indication of more dates to come but Joanna Newsom feels like it'd be a slam-dunk A+ perfect-match booking
Not sure if the Kilby show was a true one-off or an indication of more dates to come but Joanna Newsom feels like it'd be a slam-dunk A+ perfect-match booking
Post by Mensch Maschine on May 14, 2024 6:53:18 GMT -5
Man... I was going to create a new thread right when I posted the dates (3/27 - 3/30) last month. But I thought, "No... mustn't do that. It'll break the CODE. There is no HONOR in this approach.. Must wait till the announcement!"
...We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us!!
Post by Mensch Maschine on May 14, 2024 6:59:48 GMT -5
Wish List remains pretty consistent...
The Apartments | The Art of Noise | Bark Psychosis | Birdsongs of the Mesozoic | Brian Eno | Cranes | David Sylvian | Hugo Largo | Jean-Michel Jarre | John Cale | Kate Bush | La Monte Young (playing!) | M3 | Mission of Burma | Mojave 3 | The Monochrome Set | Moonshake | The Normal | Oingo Boingo (or solo Danny Elfman) | Orbital | Pale Saints | Planet P Project | Rain Parade | Ron Geesin | Roy Harper | Space | Spacemen 3 | Steve Reich | Talking Heads | The Last Shadow Puppets | Tindersticks | Trifecta | XTC (or anything that includes Andy Partridge or Colin Moulding)
Man... I was going to create a new thread right when I posted the dates (3/27 - 3/30) last month. But I thought, "No... mustn't do that. It'll break the CODE. There is no HONOR in this approach.. Must wait till the announcement!"
...We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us!!
Post by paintedhighway on May 14, 2024 8:11:06 GMT -5
3/27-30 LET'S GOOOOO Caught Kamasi last week and it was exceptional, it's not my favorite of his albums (weirdly sequenced, among other things), but might be my favorite of the six times I've seen him. They were cookin'. Also saw Miguel Zenon and Luis Perdomo on Saturday, absolutely phenomenal show. Zenon was at Big Ears two years ago with the Spektral Quartet, but won the Latin Jazz Album Grammy this year for the album with Perdomo and would be a great return.
Post by Mensch Maschine on May 16, 2024 10:06:04 GMT -5
My hotel (Hyatt Downtown) is booked... and it costs as much (if not more) than the entire festival used to cost me ($3150!). There's cheaper options, of course, but DAMN!
Up in West Haven. Cheap, plenty of room, easy shot to Old City each day that never took us more than 10 minutes.
Perfect. I've lived here all my life and I've never heard of West Haven. Sounds poetic, though.
Glad you said this. I haven’t lived in Knoxville for almost 18 years, but I’m there multiple times a year and think I still know it pretty well, and I was like, what is West Haven?
Perfect. I've lived here all my life and I've never heard of West Haven. Sounds poetic, though.
Glad you said this. I haven’t lived in Knoxville for almost 18 years, but I’m there multiple times a year and think I still know it pretty well, and I was like, what is West Haven?
Actually it might just be me, as apparently the downtown Knoxville Marriott is already booked up for that weekend. We shall see...
They're only booking through the end of January 2025 right now... (online anyway). And for whatever reason, all of the future dates that aren't bookable are listed as "Sold Out." So you likely still have a chance.
Actually it might just be me, as apparently the downtown Knoxville Marriott is already booked up for that weekend. We shall see...
They're only booking through the end of January 2025 right now... (online anyway). And for whatever reason, all of the future dates that aren't bookable are listed as "Sold Out." So you likely still have a chance.
Post by Nathan Fieldcяab on May 16, 2024 20:52:45 GMT -5
My brother and I have stayed at a series of fairly mediocre hotels each year we've come... could be interesting to look into a rental for the weekend in the future, especially given how easy it is to drive in and park for the festival
My brother and I have stayed at a series of fairly mediocre hotels each year we've come... could be interesting to look into a rental for the weekend in the future, especially given how easy it is to drive in and park for the festival
I've flown into Nashville and rented a car in the past as its ended up costing ~the same as flying in to McGhee Tyson. Granted you don't need a car to get around the fest, but its nice to have one for extracurricular activities (or if you stay at the Roadway Inn outside of town).
Also, looks like we booked the downtown Marriott for BE2022 in late September 2021, so that confirms y'alls hypothesis that hotels being "sold out" simply means they aren't taking reservations yet.
Really hope Cappdawg can pull Nils Frahm for next year.
The Apartments | The Art of Noise | Bark Psychosis | Birdsongs of the Mesozoic | Brian Eno | Cranes | David Sylvian | Hugo Largo | Jean-Michel Jarre | John Cale | Kate Bush | La Monte Young (playing!) | M3 | Mission of Burma | Mojave 3 | The Monochrome Set | Moonshake | The Normal | Oingo Boingo (or solo Danny Elfman) | Orbital | Pale Saints | Planet P Project | Rain Parade | Ron Geesin | Roy Harper | Space | Spacemen 3 | Steve Reich | Talking Heads | The Last Shadow Puppets | Tindersticks | Trifecta | XTC (or anything that includes Andy Partridge or Colin Moulding)
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