Big Ears 2019

We spent the better part of two weeks unpacking the performances from 2018's Big Ears Festival.  Now the festival organizers have announced that they will slowly reveal performers for next year's festival (Big Ears 2019) as they're booked, rather than the traditional grand announcement of the full lineup after everyone's been all lined up.  This gives us time to get familiar with some of the artists before the event.  This gives us the chance to prepack for next year's festival.

The biggest name that stands out in the announcement above, of course, is Nils Frahm, who performed at Big Ears back in 2014, and whom we touched upon back on June 15 (June 17, too).  And, oh look, it's the artist Lonnie Holley!  We just saw him open for Animal Collective last week.  And Mary Halverson, who covered Carla Bley's Ida Lupino!  And there's other bands we've posted here before, like The Messthetics and Irreversible Entanglements.

This is truly our festival, a festival for us.  See you in Tennessee!