Knoxville Big Ears 2027 - We Organized Every Artist By Genre By Day

Knoxville's Big Ears Festival 2027 lineup features many artists over four days that span multiple genres, artists and bands that transcend those boxes, so we put them back in and sorted by day.

If you're looking at just day or weekend passes and have music preferences, hopefully this can help guide you to the artists you're looking forward to or discover new ones.

We chose 10 genres: Rock/Pop, Jazz, Folk/Americana/Country, Electronic/EDM, Symphonic, Hip Hop, Experimental, R&B/Soul, Comedy, and Cello.

Did we get it right? Probably not. Comment below and tell us where we messed up.

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Thursday, April 1st

Cello - Thursday, April 1st

Electronic/EDM - Thursday, April 1st

Experimental - Thursday, April 1st

Folk/Americana/Country - Thursday, April 1st

Jazz - Thursday, April 1st

Rock/Pop - Thursday, April 1st

Friday, April 2nd

Cello - Friday, April 2nd

Comedy - Friday, April 2nd

Electronic/EDM - Friday, April 2nd

Experimental - Friday, April 2nd

Folk/Americana/Country - Friday, April 2nd

Hip Hop - Friday, April 2nd

Jazz - Friday, April 2nd

R&B/Soul - Friday, April 2nd

Rock/Pop - Friday, April 2nd

Symphonic - Friday, April 2nd

Saturday, April 3rd

Cello - Saturday, April 3rd

Electronic/EDM - Saturday, April 3rd

Experimental - Saturday, April 3rd

Folk/Americana/Country - Saturday, April 3rd

Hip Hop - Saturday, April 3rd

Jazz - Saturday, April 3rd

R&B/Soul - Saturday, April 3rd

Rock/Pop - Saturday, April 3rd

Symphonic - Saturday, April 3rd

Sunday, April 4th

Cello - Sunday, April 4th

Electronic/EDM - Sunday, April 4th

Experimental - Sunday, April 4th

Folk/Americana/Country - Sunday, April 4th

Hip Hop - Sunday, April 4th

Jazz - Sunday, April 4th

R&B/Soul - Sunday, April 4th

Rock/Pop - Sunday, April 4th

Symphonic - Sunday, April 4th

Thursday, April 1st

Cello - Thursday, April 1st

• Maya Beiser & Evan Ziporyn: Bowie Cello Symphonic

Electronic/EDM - Thursday, April 1st

• Adrian Sherwood

• HELADO TROPICAL (Helado Negro & Reyna Tropical)

• NOMON

Experimental - Thursday, April 1st

• Tyondai Braxton

Folk/Americana/Country - Thursday, April 1st

• Che Apalache

• Ettore Buzzini

• The Hands Free

• Magic Tuber Stringband

• Peter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta-Pagans

• Sheila Kay Adams + Nest of Singing Birds

Jazz - Thursday, April 1st

• Amina Claudine Myers

• Brad Mehldau Trio

• Chris Potter “Alive With Ghosts Today” with Bill Frisell

• Geechee Reclaimation

• Heart Trio

• Ingrid Laubrock’s Grammy Season + DoYeon Kim

• Kali Malone Presents Burning Song

• Manu Delago & Max ZT

• Matt Wilson’s Good Trouble

• Ranky Tanky

• Ryan Clackner Quartet

• Trio of Bloom (Nels Cline / Marcus Gilmore / Craig Taborn)

• Vijay Iyer & Jennifer Koh

Rock/Pop - Thursday, April 1st

• Efrim Manuel Menuck and Tashi Dorji Present BLOOM AND RUIN

• Gillian Welch & David Rawlings play Grateful Dead Acoustic Reckoning

• Kaki King

• Melvins

• Petra Haden Sings King Crimson

• Salami Rose Joe Louis

• Sheherazaad

• Star Moles

• Sylvan Esso

• This Is The Kit

• Wednesday

Friday, April 2nd

Cello - Friday, April 2nd

• Maya Beiser

Comedy - Friday, April 2nd

• Hannibal Buress

Electronic/EDM - Friday, April 2nd

• Discovery Zone

• Karen y Los Remedios

• Mexican Institute of Sound

• Mouse on Mars

• Pachyman

Experimental - Friday, April 2nd

• Jessica Pavone String Ensemble

• Joanne Robertson

• Kronos Quartet with Peni Candra Rini

• Oneohtrix Point Never with Freeka Tet

• One Leg One Eye

• Tristan Perich: Surface Image (with Vicky Chow)

• Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart

• YPY + Valentina Magaletti

Folk/Americana/Country - Friday, April 2nd

• El Khat

• Mon Rovîa

• Mount Eerie

• Nathaniel Rateliff

• Peter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta-Pagans

• Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal

• Wyatt Ellis

Hip Hop - Friday, April 2nd

• Moor Mother

• Sleaford Mods

Jazz - Friday, April 2nd

• Alam Khan, Vijay Iyer, Nitin Mitta

• Ava Mendoza & Hamid Drake

• Bill Frisell Trio with Luke Bergman & Tim Angulo

• Bob James

• Craig Taborn Trio

• Fabiano do Nascimento

• Hemphill Stringtet with Ursula Oppens

• Jakob Bro / Joe Lovano / Midori Takada

• James Brandon Lewis Quartet

• Judith Berkson Trio

• Kahil El’Zabar & David Murray

• Kali Malone Presents Burning Song

• Kalia Vandever Quartet

• Ken Vandermark meets Field Kitchen/Field Kitchen meets Ken Vandermark

• Luke Schneider Curation: Chrome Universal – Modern Pedal Steel Guitar

• Raining on the Moon

• root WorkGroup ™

• Ryley Walker

• Sara Serpa

• Tomeka Reid

• VariegOrchestra

• Vijay Iyer Quartet with Adam O’Farrill, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey

• Yasuaki Shimizu

• Yeah NO

R&B/Soul - Friday, April 2nd

• Thundercat

Rock/Pop - Friday, April 2nd

• Beauty Pill

• The Big Star Quintet

• Chicha Libre

• Cornelius

• Daniel Lanois Trio

• Dave Harrington’s Pranksters South

• Diles Que No Me Maten

• Dirty Projectors (solo)

• Efrim Manuel Menuck

• goat (jp)

• Helen

• Horse Lords

• Karly Hartzman

• KatzPascale

• Leenalchi

• MANAS

• Nirosta Steel

• Tim Bernardes

• U.S. Girls

Symphonic - Friday, April 2nd

• Bang On A Can All-Stars: Philip Glass: Glassworks

• Bang On A Can All-Stars: Ryuichi Sakamoto: 1996

• Bang On A Can All-Stars: Michael Gordon: Field of Vision

• Charlotte Mundy

• Nadia Sirota

• Parker Ramsey & Miranda Cuckson

Saturday, April 3rd

Cello - Saturday, April 3rd

• Lia Kohl

• Lucy Railton

Electronic/EDM - Saturday, April 3rd

• Andy Stott

• DJ Hannibal Buress

• Mouse on Mars

• Otto Benson

• Suzanne Ciani

Experimental - Saturday, April 3rd

• Glenn Kotche

• Marina Herlop

• OOIOO

• Pamela Z

• Tristan Perich: Open Symmetry

• Visible Cloaks

Folk/Americana/Country - Saturday, April 3rd

• @

• Bedouine

• Bronwyn

• Case Oats

• Dagmar Zuniga

• JD Pinkus Triptych

• Marisa Anderson

• Mon Rovîa

• Peter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta-Pagans

• Sierra Hull

• Wyatt Ellis

Hip Hop - Saturday, April 3rd

• Dinner Party (Robert Glasper / Terrace Martin / Kamasi Washington / 9th Wonder)

• The Roots

Jazz - Saturday, April 3rd

• Adam O’Farrill’s ELEPHANT

• Avishai Cohen – Big Vicious

• Ana Roxanne

• Black Cherry

• Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet

• Dave Harrington, Jay Bellerose & Billy Mohler

• David Murray Quartet

• Dawn of Midi

• Double Bill and Buster: A Night of Film and Music by Bill Frisell, Bill Morrison and Buster Keaton with Luke Bergman & Tim Angulo

• Holy Tongue

• Kalia Vandever & Dave Harrington

• Ken Vandermark / Paal Nilssen-Love

• Lovano / Makhathini / Morgan / Cyrille

• Matthew Shipp

• Mayan Space Station

• Min Xiao-Fen & Julian Kytasty

• Nicole Mitchell and Joe Westerlund

• Penguin Cafe

• SHABAKA with Austin Williamson

• Shardik

• SML

• Sumie Kaneko

• Sylvie Courvoisier TRIO feat. Drew Gress & Kenny Wollesen

• VariegOrchestra

• Yilian Cañizares

• Zig Zag Power Trio (Vernon Reid, Melvin Gibbs, Will Calhoun)

R&B/Soul - Saturday, April 3rd

• L’Rain

Rock/Pop - Saturday, April 3rd

• Avey Tare

• Bradford Cox & Lockett Pundt

• Courtney Barnett

• Daniel Lanois

• Finoml

• HYUKOH

• Ida

• Jim James

• Meat Puppets

• Natalie Merchant with Erik Della Penna

• Vanishing Twin

Symphonic - Saturday, April 3rd

• Bang On A Can All-Stars: David Lang: mystery sonatas

• Gustavo Santaolalla

• Ragamala returns! 12 Hours of Ragas

• Ursula Oppens

Sunday, April 4th

Cello - Sunday, April 4th

• Linda May Han Oh

Electronic/EDM - Sunday, April 4th

• Jeremiah Chiu

• Tristan Perich

Experimental - Sunday, April 4th

• Jim White Trio

• Midori Takada

• OOIOO

Folk/Americana/Country - Sunday, April 4th

• James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg

• Joan Shelley

• Valerie June

• Wyatt Ellis

• Zoh Amba

Hip Hop - Sunday, April 4th

• Robert Glasper

Jazz - Sunday, April 4th

• Bill Frisell & Eyvind Kang Duet

• Jeff Parker ETA IVtet

• John Carroll Kirby

• Josh Johnson ANIMATIVE

• The Melvin Gibbs Ensemble – Nzambici

• Nduduzo Makhathini Trio

• Norah Jones

• Ryan Clackner’s Existential Dread

• Seraphic Light

• SHABAKA, William Parker, Hamid Drake

• Vieux Farka Touré & Roberto Fonseca

R&B/Soul - Sunday, April 4th

• Mavis Staples

• The Womack Sisters

Rock/Pop - Sunday, April 4th

• Jasper Llewellyn

• Jeff Tweedy

• Kevin Morby

• Liam Kazar

• My New Band Believe

• Oruã

• Rosali

• Weyes Blood

Symphonic - Sunday, April 4th

• Bang On A Can All-Stars: David Lang: mystery sonatas

• Bang On A Can All-Stars: Steve Reich: Music For 18 Musicians