By Eric Dawson Big Ears Festival continues to expand, evolve and surprise, the 2019 edition doubling down on last year’s somewhat unexpected lineup heavy on jazz and new music performers and composers, and more of the Appalachian/old time fare…
Big Ears 2019 – Q&A With Nate Wooley – ‘Columbia Icefield’
By Eric Dawson Nate Wooley has been an extremely active trumpet player in the New York jazz and improv world since the turn of the millennium, collaborating with a dazzling array of musicians with a broad range of sounds.…
Big Ears 2018 – Áine O’Dwyer
Irish multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Áine O’Dwyer is known for her unique site-specific performances, which often draw on her performative art background. Integral to the conception of each performance and recording are a location’s acoustics, atmosphere and history. For her latest…
Big Ears 2018 – Q&A With Diamanda Galás
A Diamanda Galás performance is unlike any other performance you’ll ever see — even unlike other Diamanda Galás performances. Since the 1970s the singer has been stunning—and occasionally shocking—audiences with her uncanny vocalizations and theatrical stage presence.
Big Ears 2018 – Q&A With Milford Graves
Among the many activities undertaken during his 76 years so far on this planet, Milford Graves has been an herbalist, an acupuncturist, a martial arts instructor, a college professor, a medical laboratory assistant and a scientific researcher. These disciplines all…
Big Ears 2018 – Q&A with Nels Cline
Nels Cline was already well on his way to becoming a guitar hero when he got the call to join Wilco in 2004. Though that gig brought his playing to a much wider audience, in the preceding 20-plus years Cline had played with a mind-boggling array of top notch musicians on more than 200 albums, in addition to his solo recording and groups Nels Cline Trio and Nels Cline Singers.
