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

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

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

Big Ears Festival is taking over downtown Knoxville this weekend, with people coming from all over the world to visit. Here's ...

My last Big Ears experience, in the long, long ago Diamanda Galás year of 2018, mostly involved their film section, due to a ...

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

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Big Ears 2025 takes over Knoxville, Tennssee this weekend, and the lineup is so stacked, you won't be able to see everything the festival has to offer. Here are the toughest calls we'll be making.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — In the heart of downtown Knoxville, the genre-defying Big Ears Festival is unfolding—and among the audience this weekend are 15 students from the University of Tennessee.