Wed
Mar 23 2016
08:28 am
Big Ears is almost here, tickets selling out
By: R. Neal

The internationally acclaimed music and arts festival Big Ears is almost here (March 31st through April 2nd) and tickets are selling out.

From creator Ashley Capps:

...I thought I should give you a heads up that some options will soon sell out…for the first time ever.

Day passes for Saturday will likely sell out in the next 24 hours or so.

Some weekend passes remain, but they will also sell out at some point prior to the festival.

Tickets for the Laurie Anderson & Philip Glass matinee at the Tennessee Theatre on Saturday afternoon are also in short supply. There are a very limited number that can still be purchased alone, without buying a weekend or day pass for the festival. You can find them here.

To be clear, single day passes for both Thursday and for Friday remain, as do reserved seat tickets at the Tennessee Theatre for the spectacular Knoxville Symphony Orchestra program on Thursday night and for the Andrew Bird / eighth blackbird (with Bonnie Prince Billy and Bryce Dessner) on Friday night.

For those attending the festival, we have a number of new programs to announce and other details to come, including an exciting series of free programs exploring Knoxville’s history - with the Tennessee Archive of Moving Images and Sound (TAMIS), Jack Neely, RB Morris, Black Atticus, and others - as well as surprise performances by Big Ears artists which will take place at Boyd’s Jig and Reel throughout the festival.

Also, don’t forget our “free and open to the public" Grand Finale - on Sunday, April 3 at noon at Ijams Nature Center surrounding Mead’s Quarry - when Inuksuit, the outdoor percussion masterpiece by our Pulitzer Prize winning composer in residence John Luther Adams, will be performed by a small army of percussionists from throughout the region…organized by master percussionist Andy Bliss and his nief-norf team, along with composer Steven Schick.

We’re all blown away by the response to this year’s festival…huge thanks to all of you who have supported this event and make it all possible.

Big Ears info, lineup, tickets, more...

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Up Goose Creek's picture

Schedule

Submitted by Up Goose Creek on Fri, 2016/03/25 - 1:36pm.

The official big ears site doesn't have a schedule, just a line-up. Maybe all secrets are revealed if you log in to facebook?

If anyone sees a schedule with times and venues, please let me know.

R. Neal's picture

Schedule...

Submitted by R. Neal on Fri, 2016/03/25 - 2:40pm.
(in reply to Up Goose Creek)

Schedule...

Up Goose Creek's picture

Technical problems

Submitted by Up Goose Creek on Fri, 2016/03/25 - 10:01pm.

That link should be simple but it killed my creaky plug in laptop plum daid. Had to reboot and all.

Then I went to my newer 'puter and pulled up the nice graphic, which I also found hiding on the upper left of the line-up page. All well and good until I went to print preview. The first day had 23 pages, the 2nd day had 12. Not legible either, some words were printed on top of another. If you were lucky to read the act you couldn't see the venue.

I never learned the keystrokes for print screen can anyone enlighten me? I'd still have to copy the venues on the page but the graphic is readable.

Is big ears marketed for ethereal folks who only exist in the digital world and shun the use of printed guides?

AC's picture

This is the first I've been

Submitted by AC on Sat, 2016/03/26 - 9:46am.

This is the first I've been made aware of a problem such as this, and I'll have to ask our web team to look into it. As always, there will be a printed guide but it won't be available until Wednesday.

yellowdog's picture

The Big Ears ap seems to be working

Submitted by yellowdog on Sat, 2016/03/26 - 1:31pm.
(in reply to AC)

Has a schedule, links to info about artists, etc.

Up Goose Creek's picture

Printing

Submitted by Up Goose Creek on Sat, 2016/03/26 - 2:18pm.

To look at the schedule, it looks fine and a very comprehendable. A little scrolly, perhaps, in that you can't see the whole schedule on one screen. Plus you have a different link for each day so you don't get an overview. It would be nice to see at a glance if there are multiple performances by the same act. Of course that would be easy if the pages could be printed.

But to print it - that's where it gets weird. Maybe it's just that the page doesn't play well with internet explorer.

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