Recap: Big Ears 2019 – Day 1-4

Our Big Ears footage is on the way, but in the meantime we’d like to do a recap of our video playlist with music by artists that performed at this year’s fest!
Keep an eye on our Youtube channel for more BE goodness.
 
Day 1 / Thursday – Altered Statesman, Artifacts Trio, Avey Tare, Clarice Jensen, Kukangendai, Joan La Barbara, Mathias Eick Quintet, Peter Gregson, Roomful of Teeth, Rachel Grimes, Derek Gripper, Theo Bleckmann, Bill Frisell
Day 2 / Friday – The Comet is Coming, Meredith Monk, Harold Budd, Ralph Towner, Mary Lattimore, Mary Halvorson, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Peter Gregson, David Torn
Day 3 / Saturday – Brooklyn Rider, Carla Kihlstedt,  Nils Frahm, Thumbscrew, White Gregg, Chris Eldridge, Mimi Goese, Wadada Leo Smith, Kristina Anna Valtyrsdottir, KTL, Jerusalem In My Heart, The Messthetics, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Makaya McCraven, This Is Not This Heat
Day 3 / 12 Hour Drone – Abstract Black, Ben Neill, Ben Shemie, Carl Stone, Diatom Deli, Hanna Benn, Clarice Jensen, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Mehdi Nassouli, Nief Norf, Peni Candra Rini
Day 4 / Sunday – Art Ensemble of Chicago, Doug McCombs, Alvin Lucier, Petra Haden / Bill Frisell, Harold Budd, Gabriel Kahane, Kayhan Kalhor, Kieran Kane / Rayna Gellert, Matt Nelson, Nelson Patton / Lonnie Holley, Nik Bartsch’s Ronin, Shane Parish, Richard Thompson, Vijay Iyer, Yves Tumor
 

Further Reading

Immune to Boredom
Knoxville News Sentinel
WATE 6
Blank News
WBIR
UT Daily Beacon
Magnolia Records
Arts Knoxville
Knox TN Today