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The 2025 Big Ears Festival Lineup Is Led By Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, And More
By Derrick Rossignol,
1 days ago
Molly Matalon
The Big Ears Festival is set to return to Knoxville, Tennessee next year, and details about the 2025 edition were just announced today (September 10).
It’s going down from March 27 to 30, and the musical lineup so far is led by Waxahatchee , ANOHNI And The Johnsons , Explosions In The Sky, Jessica Pratt , Rufus Wainwright, Sun Ra Arkestra & Yo La Tengo, Esperanza Spalding, Tortoise, Helado Negro, and more. Other artists will be announced in the coming months.
Festival passes go on sale starting with a pre-sale for previously festival attendees, on September 11 at 9 a.m. ET. The general on-sale then begins September 12 at 9 a.m. ET. More information can be found on the festival website .
Find the full lineup so far listed in alphabetical order below.
Big Ears 2025 Lineup
Adam Rudolph’s Sunrise Quartet Adam Rudolph’s Hu Vibrational Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey [Ahmed] Alabaster DePlume Alan Sparhawk Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves Amaro Freitas Trio Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey from a Winter’s Stone Ambrose Akinmusure (Solo) ANOHNI and the Johnsons Anoushka Shankar Antipop Consortium Arooj Aftab Asha Puthli Astrid Sonne Axiom 5 Barry Altschul’s 3 Dom Factor Beak> Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez Trio Bia Ferreira Bill Frisell: In My Dreams Brìghde Chaimbeul Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino Carlos Niño & Friends Cassandra Jenkins Chanel Beads Chuck Johnson Claire Chase Clarice Jensen clipping. Cowboy Sadness DakhaBrakha Dan Weiss Even Odds Trio David Grubbs Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn Dedicated Men of Zion EMEL esperanza spalding eucademix (Yuka Honda) Explosions In The Sky Fay Victor: Herbie Nichols SUNG Fieldwork (Vijay Iyer / Steve Lehman / Tyshawn Sorey) Flore Laurentienne Free Form Funky Freqs (Jamaaladeen Tacuma / Vernon Reid / Calvin Weston) Helado Negro Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly MESTIZX Immanuel Wilkins’ Blues Blood Jeff Parker ETA IVtet Jenny Scheinman: All Species Parade Jessica Pratt Joan as Police Woman Joe Lovano’s Paramount Quartet with Julian Lage, Santi Debriano, and Will Calhoun Joel Harrison’s Free Country Joseph Keckler Josh Johnson Joy Guidry: AMEN Jules Reidy Julia Holter June McDoom Kahil El’Zabar Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Kalia Vandever Kelly Moran Knoxville Opera Gospel Choir Kokayi Kris Davis Trio featuring Robert Hurst & Jonathan Blake Lankum Lara Somogyi Les Claypool’s Bastard Jazz Luke Stewart Silt Trio Mabe Fratti Macie Stewart Magic Tuber Stringband Maria Chavez + Victoria Shen + Mariam Rezaei Marisa Anderson Marissa Nadler Mark Guiliana Maruja Mary Lattimore Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water – The Gospel of James Baldwin Michael Hurley Mike Reed’s Separatist Party featuring Ben LaMar Gay, Bitchin Bajas & Marvin Tate ML Buch Modney múm Nanocluster (Immersion | SUSS) Nels Cline: Concentrik Quartet The Nels Cline Singers Peni Candra Rini Phantom Orchard Phil Cook R.B. Morris & William Wright: The Mockingbird Rachika Nayar Rich Ruth Rufus Wainwright Sam Bush Band Shelley Hirsch SML Squanderers Steve Coleman and Five Elements Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton Steven Schick Steve Roach Still House Plants Sun Ra Arkestra Sun Ra Arkestra & Yo La Tengo Sunny War Susan Alcorn Sylvie Courvoisier Chimaera Taj Mahal Tara Clerkin Trio Tarta Relena Tessa Lark, Joshua Roman & Edgar Meyer Tigran Hamasyan: The Bird of a Thousand Voices Tilt Tindersticks Tortoise Tyshawn Sorey, King Britt & Friends featuring Melz & Meshell Ndegeocello Tyshawn Sorey Trio Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith Water Damage Waxahatchee William Basinski Yaya Bey Yo La Tengo Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion Zeena Parkins
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