Well, 2025 has certainly been a busy live music year so far, making me hopeful that I'm back to a more typical pace than last year's dismal showing. Dialing back to a part-time work schedule is helping!
This quarter also marks my first time attending the Big Ears festival, held every year in Knoxville. It's hard to describe this festival, other than saying that it's an eclectic mix of "arty" music that would otherwise never all find its way to Tennessee. Standouts were DARKSIDE, Anohni & the Johnsons, Tarta Relena (Catalan singing duo), Jeff Parker's amazing ETA fourtet, Beth Gibbons, and a crazy mini-set with Alan Sparkhawk playing with Nels Cline and SUSS.
And April will bring my 15th Coachella!
As usual, favorites in bold.
- SF Symphony performing Carmina Burana, with one of our teens performing in the chorus!
- Arooj Aftab
- L'Imperatrice
- Christian Lee Hutson
- St. Vincent (in Grace Cathedral!)
- American Analog Set
- Nik Bärtsch's Ronin
- Mary Lattimore (opening for Ceremony?!)
- Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings
- Michael Rother (NEU! and Harmonia)
- Big Ears day one (Tigran Hamasyan, Immersion, Astrid Sonne, Beth Gibbons, Darkside)
- Big Ears day two (Kelly Moran, Brighde Chaimbeul, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Alabaster DePlume, Jessica Pratt, Tarta Relena, Anohni and the Johnsons, SUSS w/ Nels Cline, Alan Sparhawk, Marisa Anderson)
- Big Ears day three (Arooj Aftab, Lankum, Lara Somogyi, Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Phillip Glass Ensemble, Carla Kihlstedt, SUSS with Immersion, Cowboy Sadness, Mary Lattimore & William Tyler.
- Big Ears day four (Explosions in the Sky, Múm, Joan as Policewoman, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, Marisa Anderson, Dan Weiss Even Odds Trio)
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