big ears 2024

Seen this year at the Big Ears Festival: Henry Threadgill’s Very Very Circus (repertory band); Mary Halvorson Amaryllis; Tyondai Braxton; Jlin; Unwound; Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant Extra; Claire Rousay; Ikue Mori / Fred Frith; Kristin Hersh; Brad Mehldau; Tomeka Reid; Bitchin’ Bajas; Carl Craig; Min Xiao Fen; Colleen; Myra Melford Fire & Water; Colin Stetson; Beth Orton; JG Thirlwell & Ensemble; Bar Italia; Shabaka; Ches Smith’s Laugh Ash; Matt Mitchell; Void Patrol; KMRU; John Paul Jones / Thurston Moore (*not seen due to delays); André 3000

Big Ears Festival, 2023

Yarn / Wire performing Lucier / McIntosh and Mochizuki

Sam Gendel / Sam Wilkes

Phill Niblock

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet

Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra

David Byrne’s Reasons to Be Cheerful

Wendy Eisenberg

Mary Halvorson Amaryllis

Kali Malone’s Living Torch

The Meridian Brothers

Tyshawn Sorey Trio with Bill Frisell & Joe Lovano

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills

Irreversible Entanglements

Tarbaby with David Murray

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba

Catherine Lamb performed by Jack Quartet

William Parker Mayan Space Station

Vinicius Cantuaria

James ‘Blood’ Ulmer

Xylouris White

John Zorn’s Gnostic Trio

Theon Cross

Éliane Radigue performed by Nate Wooley

Kate NV

Oneohtrix Point Never