Source: Big Ears Festival. It takes place March 22-25, 2018. If you can’t find at least 15 acts that you like…
ABIGAIL WASHBURN & WU FEI
AINE O’DWYER PERFORMS WILLIAM EGGLESTON’S ‘MUSIK’
ALGIERS
ALICE COLTRANE TURIYASANGITANANDA: THE ASHRAM EXPERIENCE
ANNA & ELIZABETH
ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR: ‘IN THE LIGHT OF AIR’ PERFORMED BY INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR ‘LAND OF GOLD’
ARTO LINDSAY
BANG ON A CAN ALL STARS CELEBRATE THEIR 30TH ANNIVERSARY PERFORMING WORKS BY DAVID LANG, MICHAEL GORDON, AND JULIA WOLFE
BANG ON A CAN ALL STARS ‘FIELD RECORDINGS’
BANG ON A CAN ALL STARS: JULIA WOLFE’S ‘ANTHRACITE FIELDS’
BÉLA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN
BÉLA FLECK & BROOKLYN RIDER
BROOKLYN RIDER
CLEEK SCHREY & DAVID BEHRMAN
CRAIG TABORN QUARTET
CYRO BAPTISTA AND BANQUET OF THE SPIRITS
CYRO BAPTISTA PRESENTS ‘VIRA LOUCOS’
DIAMANDA GALÁS
DUET FOR THEREMIN & LAP STEEL
EVAN PARKER ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE
FOUR TET
GAS (WOLFGANG VOIGT)
INNOV GNAWA
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
JAGA JAZZIST
JAGA JAZZIST FEATURING STÅLE STORLØKKEN & JON BALKE
JASON MORAN DUO WITH MILFORD GRAVES
BANGS (JASON MORAN, MARY HALVORSON, AND RON MILES)
JASON MORAN PRESENTS ‘FATS WALLER DANCE PARTY’
JENNY HVAL
JENNY SCHEINMAN PRESENTS ‘KANNAPOLIS: A MOVING PORTRAIT’
JENNY SCHEINMAN ‘MISCHIEF & MAYHEM’ WITH NELS CLINE AND SCOTT AMENDOLA
JUANA MOLINA
JULIE BYRNE
KELLY LEE OWENS
KID KOALA (DJ SET)
KID KOALA’S ‘SATELLITE’ TURNTABLE ORCHESTRA
KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY STRINGS PERFORMS ‘WERE YOU THERE’ WITH BARITONE DAVÓNE TINES
LAUREL HALO (DJ SET)
LAUREL HALO (LIVE WITH ELI KESZLER)
LIGHTNING BOLT
LUCIUS
MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD
MILFORD GRAVES
NELS CLINE: ‘LOVERS’ WITH THE KNOXVILLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA AND GUESTS
NIEF-NORF
PETER EVANS ENSEMBLE
ROCKET SCIENCE (PETER EVANS, SAM PLUTA, CRAIG TABORN, EVAN PARKER)
ROSCOE MITCHELL TRIOS
ROSTAM
ROVA CHANNELING COLTRANE: ‘ELECTRIC ASCENSION’
ROVA: THE ‘SOUND IN SPACE’ PROJECT
SAM AMIDON
STEVE GUNN
STEVE GUNN & THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS
STIAN WESTERHUS
SUSANNA
SUSANNA FEAT. GIOVANNA PESSI, FRODE HALTLI & CHEYENNE MIZE
SUUNS
TAL NATIONAL
THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS
THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND
THE THING
TYSHAWN SOREY TRIO
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