Annual trek to Knoxville for the Big Ears music festival. The weather was pretty good, just one day of on-and-off rain and then a day of high winds (which sadly scuttled the big parade for the weekend). We sprung again for the more expensive "Premier" passes that allowed us to skip the worst of the waiting lines. Our hotel (Embassy Suites) cost an arm and a leg, though, far more than the festival passes; next year we'll try the Hyatt Place again.
I ran "in" the Knoxville marathon again :)
Drove there and back in an electric car, with just one 10 minute stop for charging. It's 2023 folks, time to get over it and give up your gasser. See me for advice.
Short reviews (and a representative photo) of each performance are on Facebook, perhaps to be copied over to here someday.
Thursday, day 1 of 4:
- Yarn/Wire
- King Britt
- Phill Niblock
- Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet
- Kali Malone
Friday, day 2 of 4:
- Robert Ashley street opera thing
- trumpeter Nate Wooley
- Yarn/Wire again
- Robert Lundberg piece with Atlanta improv-ers
- Carl Stone Trio
- Xylouris White
- Joe Rainey
- Pino Palladino
- William Parker with regrettable bonus
- Billy Woods
- Caterina Barbieri
Saturday, day 3 of 4:
- Stephen O'Malley
- Lee Ranaldo
- William Parker's Mayan Space Station
- Etran de L'Air
- Luke Schneider
- Sierra Ferrell
- Aroof Aftab / Maeve Gilchrist / Shahzad Ismaily
- SUSS
- Xylouris White
- Fujiiiita
Sunday, day 4 of 4:
- Knoxville marathon 🙂
- the singing saw guy
- Lonnie Holley
- Wadada Leo Smith
- Nate Wooley
- King Coal screening
- Oneohtrix Point Never
- Zorn / Dunn / Lombardo
- Zorn Cobra conduction