Echoes Podcast: Big Ears Festival 2019

PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast · Mar 7, 2019 · 12m

Inside Big Ears Festival 2019 in Echoes Podcast Get Big Ears in the Echoes Podcast. You need a big mind to explore the Big Ears Festival 2019. Big Ears celebrates its 10th anniversary in Knoxville, TN, as one of the most wide-ranging, furthest thinking music festivals in America. We talk to founder Ashley Capps, who also founded Big Ears and revived Moogfest, about a festival that embraces ECM jazz, avant-garde classical music, Appalachian folk musicians and outside the mainstream rockers. This year’s festival includes Harold Budd, Richard Thompson, Meredith Monk, The Art Ensemble of Chicago…