Knoxville, TN’s Big Ears Festival will be back in 2017 with a cool and varied lineup. Expanding to 4 days this time around, it goes down on March 23-26. The excellent initial lineup this year includes Wilco, Blonde Redhead, Laeticia Sadier, Deerhoof, My Brightest Diamond, Tortoise, The Magnetic Fields, Xiu Xiu and many more. Tickets for the fest are on sale now.
Check out the full lineup below.
Big Ears Festival — 2017 Lineup
Ahleuchatistas
Alvin Curran
American Contemporary Music Ensemble
Blonde Redhead
Carla Bley Trio with Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard
Carla Bley with the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra
Claire Chase
Colin Stetson presents Sorrow: A Reimagining of Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony
Colleen
DakhaBrahka
Dave Harrington Group
Deathprod
Deerhoof
DJ Rupture
Emilia Amper
Frederic Rzewski
Frode Haltli: The Border Woods
Gavin Bryars Ensemble
Glenn Kotche
Henry Grimes
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid
Horse Lords
Imarhan
Jace Clayton presents Julius Eastman Memory Depot
Joan Shelley
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Drone Mass
Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge | Aoife O’Donovan
Junun featuring Shye Ben Tzur and The Rajasthan Express
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Knoxville Jazz Orchestra
Lætitia Sadier
Lisa Moore
Matmos perform Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives (Private Parts)
Maya Beiser
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble: The Soul’s Messenger
Michael Hurley
Musica Elettronica Viva (Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, & Frederic Rzewski)
My Brightest Diamond
Nief-Norf
Nils Økland Band
Oliver Coates
On Fillmore
Philip Jeck
Rachel Grimes “The Way Forth” Featuring Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg
Rangda
Richard Teitelbaum
Sarah Kirkland Snider Unremembered: DM Stith, Shara Worden, Padma Newsome
Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone
Shane Parish
Sir Richard Bishop
Six Organs of Admittance
Ståle Storløkken
Ståle Storløkken & Arve Henriksen
Supersilent
The Crossing
The Magentic Fields: Fifty Song Memoir
Theatre of Voices
Theo Bleckmann
Tortoise
Wilco
Wu Fei
Xiu Xiu
Yasmine Hamdan
Yuki Numata Resnick