Category: Big Ears Festival
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Ric Brooks – Featured Artist
Love is in the air. And it’s on our walls. It’s hanging there, mostly in bold colors, as a clear statement that photographer Ric Brooks loves music makers almost as much as he loves their music. For years, Brooks has been the official unofficial photographer of Big Ears. And it’s a…
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Calfkiller Brewing – Featured Brewery
As breweries become more of a fixture on the urban landscape, it’s refreshing to find one that’s close to home but situated smack dab in the middle of a picture perfect vision of bucolic Tennessee. Located in Sparta, which is just about an hour and a half from Knoxville and almost due south of Cookeville,…
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Just Dew It with a side of Pecans
The approach of Big Ears, in addition to a fantastic slate of music, gives us pause to appreciate things homegrown. It also reminds us of how nice it is to be in Knoxville, and how lucky we are to have witnessed and participated in all the work that has gone into making our city a…
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Big Ears Festival: A macrocosm of Knoxville’s artistic community.
Big Ears Festival is more than music. This is a festival that is as much about expanding communities as it is a lineup. The city of Knoxville is opening its arms again this weekend to welcome back Big Ears and the vast, internationally renowned community of artists of many mediums. For the second year in…
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The New Festival Beer You Haven’t Tried
Nothing shines better in the sunshine than the colors of a well brewed beer. That’s certainly what Saw Works Brewing Company is hoping for this spring with the cloudy gold shine of their new Sonic Wit. Created for the Big Ears Festival, the Sonic Wit was meant to be stimulating on a hot day of…
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Big Ears Festival & The Tomato Head fund raise for Joy of Music School and The Community School of the Arts
Howdy beer drinkers and live music lovers! Our first Loving Spoonful fundraiser of 2015 starts today and we think you’re gonna love it. We’re teaming up with the folks at the Big Ears Festival’s Little Ears program, an educational component of the annual contemporary music festival. Through the program, local students from The Joy of Music…