Big Ears announced the complete lineup for its 2019 edition Tuesday morning. It marks ten years of Big Ears in Knoxville.
The music festival announces its performers in phases. This is the final phase of announcements.
The festival is set for March 21-24, 2019 in downtown Knoxville.
Festival tickets are already on sale. You can get more information here.
Big Ears 2019 will include the second edition of its all-night, 12 -hour drone concert and a series of panels and workshops.
Each year, the festival supports more than 100 performers of music, film, and art over four days.
"Community engagement typically includes 50+ panels, workshops, and performances that are free and open to the public."
The Big Ears film festival was recently dubbed one of the 25 coolest film festivals in the United States.
Knoxville native Yves Tumor is also someone to keep an eye... or ear out at this year's festival.
The festival said "an experimental answer to SXSW” will return under the direction of Paul Harris and Darren Hughes of Knoxville’s Public Cinema.
In 2019, Big Ears presents more than 10 distinct special programs that are unique to the festival altogether or are in some of their earliest performances.
Full 2019 lineup:
ACME
ALIEN FLOWER SUTRA
ALVIN LUCIER
AMIRTHA KIDAMBI’S ELDER ONES
THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO
ARTIFACTS TRIO
AVEY TARE
AVISHAI COHEN QUARTET
BÉLA FLECK
BÉLA FLECK & EDMAR CASTAÑEDA
BILL FRISELL & THOMAS MORGAN
BILL FRISELL AND THE MESMERISTS FEATURING TONY SCHERR, KENNY WOLLESEN AND THE FILMS OF BILL MORRISON
BILL FRISELL’S HARMONY FEATURING PETRA HADEN, HANK ROBERTS & LUKE BERGMAN
BROOKLYN RIDER
CARL STONE
CARLA BLEY TRIOS WITH ANDY SHEPPARD AND STEVE SWALLOW
CARLA KIHLSTEDT
CLARICE JENSEN + JONATHAN TURNER: FOR THIS FROM THAT WILL BE FILLED
COLUMBIA ICEFIELD
THE COMET IS COMING
COUPLER
DAVID TORN
DEJOHNETTE COLTRANE GARRISON
DEREK GRIPPER
DRAGNET GIRL WITH LIVE SCORE BY COUPLER
EVAN PARKER / MATT WRIGHT TRANCE MAP+
EVER PRESENT ORCHESTRA FEAT. STEPHEN O’MALLEY AND OREN AMBARCHI PERFORM THE WORKS OF ALVIN LUCIER
FIRE!
GABRIEL KAHANE
HAROLD BUDD
IAN CHANG
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS
JERUSALEM IN MY HEART
JLIN
JOAN LA BARBARA PERFORMS WORKS BY ALVIN LUCIER
JOAN LA BARBARA: VOICE IS THE ORIGINAL INSTRUMENT
JOEP BEVING
KARA-LIS COVERDALE
KAYHAN KALHOR
KAYHAN KALHOR & BROOKLYN RIDER
KIERAN KANE AND RAYNA GELLERT
KIM KASHKASHIAN
KRISTÍN ANNA VALTÝSDÓTTIR
KTL
LONNIE HOLLEY
LONNIE HOLLEY AND THE MESSTHETICS
MAKAYA MCCRAVEN
MARY HALVORSON'S CODE GIRL
MATHIAS EICK QUINTET
MATT WILSON'S HONEY & SALT
MERCURY REV
MEREDITH MONK & VOCAL ENSEMBLE CELLULAR SONGS CONCERT
THE MESSTHETICS
MOOR MOTHER
MOUNTAIN MAN
NASHVILLE BALLET: LUCY NEGRO REDUX CHOREOGRAPHY BY PAUL VASTERLING WITH MUSIC BY RHIANNON GIDDENS & FRANCESCO TURISI AND POETRY BY CAROLINE RANDALL WILLIAMS
NATE WOOLEY
NIEF-NORF
NIK BÄRTSCH’S RONIN
NILS FRAHM
OREN AMBARCHI
PETER GREGSON
RACHEL GRIMES: THE WAY FORTH
RAFIQ BHATIA: BREAKING ENGLISH
RALPH TOWNER
RHIANNON GIDDENS AND FRANCESCO TURRISI
RICHARD THOMPSON: KILLED IN ACTION
ROOMFUL OF TEETH
PARKER / SCHLIPPENBACH / LYTTON TRIO
PUNCH BROTHERS
SERPENTWITHFEET
SHAI MAESTRO TRIO
SONS OF KEMET
SPIRITUALIZED
SUN OF GOLDFINGER
THEO BLECKMANN: BERLIN - SONGS OF LOVE AND WAR, PEACE AND EXILE
THEO BLECKMANN: HELLO EARTH! THE MUSIC OF KATE BUSH
THIS IS NOT THIS HEAT
THUMBSCREW
TIM BERNE’S SNAKEOIL
TRIPTYCH (EYES OF ONE ON ANOTHER), FEATURING ROOMFUL OF TEETH, COMPOSED BY BRYCE DESSNER, LIBRETTO BY KORDE ARRINGTON TUTTLE, FEAT. THE WORK OF PATTI SMITH & ESSEX HEMPHILL, DIRECTED BY DANIEL FISH, PRODUCED BY ARKTYPE / THOMAS O. KRIEGSMANN
UNCLE EARL
VIJAY IYER AND CRAIG TABORN
WADADA LEO SMITH SOLO: REFLECTIONS AND MEDITATIONS ON MONK
WADADA LEO SMITH’S NDA, PERFORMING “DIVINE LOVE” WITH BOBBY NAUGHTON AND DWIGHT ANDREWS
YUNOHANA VARIATIONS WITH YOSHIMIO, SUSIE IBARRA, AND ROBERT AKI AUBREY LOWE
YVES TUMOR