Downtown Knoxville pulsed with energy as Big Ears Festival 2025 welcomed over 7,500 passionate music lovers for a long ...

Fortunately for Knox News, the local source for all things Knoxville, we've had multiple reporters and photographers ...

"Hi, I'm Michael Yaeger, and this is my eighth Big Ears." In his North Dakotan accent, Yeager made his rounds at ...

Whether you were there or just curious what this critically acclaimed Knoxville festival is about, we have you covered with ...

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

Tindersticks' lush, frayed elegance was on full display at the first shows of their first two in a decade and a half ...

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

Urmila Seshagiri, who teaches the course, uses the Big Ears Festival as part of a unique cultural studies course.

Big Ears Festival returns to downtown Knoxville, featuring unique cross-cultural collaborations and drawing a global audience ...

My last Big Ears experience, in the long, long ago Diamanda Galás year of 2018, mostly involved their film section, due to a combination of scheduling and a lot of rare offerings. But in an instance ...

“Our merchants are excited, our restaurants are staffed and ready to go. They really try and engage thinking about some of ...

The first festival featured Philip Glass, Negativland, Michael Gira, Matmos and the Necks. The Big Ears festival debuted in 2009 as an event that embraced the experimental, a philosophy it ...