Days before Michael Hurley's death, the singing, songwriting storyteller stepped on the stage of a Scottish pub in Knoxville ...

From standing in solidarity to the sweetest of songwriting to the sweatiest, steamiest set we've seen all weekend, Saturday ...

Big Ears Festival is taking over downtown Knoxville this weekend, with people coming from all over the world to visit. Here's ...

Downtown Knoxville pulsed with energy as Big Ears Festival 2025 welcomed over 7,500 passionate music lovers for a long ...

Big Ears Festival returns to downtown Knoxville, featuring unique cross-cultural collaborations and drawing a global audience ...

As the Big Ears Festival has grown from around 25 artists in 2009 to nearly 200 sets in 2025, the vision of founder Ashley ...

Back in 2009, Big Ears was dreamed up by Ashley Capps, a Knoxville-bred concert promoter who also co-founded Bonnaroo, one of ...

“Our merchants are excited, our restaurants are staffed and ready to go. They really try and engage thinking about some of ...

"I don't think I could describe (Big Ears Festival) further, the exhilaration," Mike Yaeger said. "It's like a muse, or maybe ...

Urmila Seshagiri, who teaches the course, uses the Big Ears Festival as part of a unique cultural studies course.

The influential singer/songwriter was a part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s and 1970s.