Enjoy shows from jazz to bluegrass to electronic to gospel – all for free at Big Ears in 2025. There are moving exhibitions ...

Days before Michael Hurley's death, the singing, songwriting storyteller stepped on the stage of a Scottish pub in Knoxville ...

Big Ears Festival 2025 article by Mark Sullivan, published on April 8, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Live Review articles ...

The Big Ears Festival is back for another year of great music, art and conversation in Knoxville. Although single-day passes have sold out, that doesn’t mean you have to miss out. You can still ...

Four churches are taking part in the 2025 Big Ears Festival, with the acoustics and atmosphere of each space matched to the ...

While in Knoxville for the Big Ears Festival, Downes visited various community organizations to play music and talk about these topics. From its genesis, the Big Ears Festival has been a weekend ...

As the Big Ears Festival has grown from around 25 artists in 2009 to nearly 200 sets in 2025, the vision of founder Ashley Capps has been unwavering.

Welcome to our live updates blog! 2 p.m. Saturday: It was barely past noon, but EMEL’s hypnotic performance elicited late-night North African club vibes that made it hard to leave. The ...

Big Ears Festival will take place across more than 20 downtown Knoxville venues March 27-30. The festival headquarters have changed, and there are new places to pick up wristbands and merch.

It's not always easy to step outside the mainstream, but that has been the mission of the Big Ears Festival since its launch in festival founder Ashley Capp's hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee ...