In addition to a lineup that features Bill Frisell, Richard Thompson, Giddens teaming up with Francesco Turrisi, Nils Frahm, Spiritualized, Mercury Rev, Mary Halvorson, Jack DeJohnette and many more, Knoxville, TN’s Big Ears Festival has announced an ongoing celebration for the 50th year of  ECM Records.

As written in a Big Ears press release, ECM has spent “spent half a century tirelessly pursuing new frontiers and standards of excellence in jazz and classical music.”

“ECM’s ethos for the last 50 years dovetails perfectly with Big Ears’ own principles—and has from the start,” the release later states. “The label has unwavering standards of excellence, using an unmistakable visual identity and rigorous production goals to build a redoubtable aesthetic. ECM has long served as a stable platform for its artists to venture into the unknown, too, to make music that defied the boundaries of safety and expectation within their chosen form.”

For more information – including tickets – visit BigEarsFestival.org.

Check out the full list of ECM performers as well as the full Big Ears lineup below:

ECM Performances: Big Ears 2019

The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Arvo Pärt’s Passio performed by St. John’s Choir

Avishai Cohen Quartet

Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan

Carla Bley TRIOS with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow

David Torn

DeJohnette Coltrane Garrison

Larry Grenadier

Kim Kashkashian

Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin

Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble Cellular Songs Concert

Mathias Eick Quintet

Nik Bärtsch’s RONIN

Ralph Towner

Shai Maestro

Sun of Goldfinger (David Torn, Tim Berne, Ches Smith)

Tim Berne’s Snakeoil

Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn

Wadada Leo Smith’s Nda, performing Divine Love with Bobby Naughton and Dwight Andrews

Big Ears 2019 Full Lineup

ACME

Alvin Lucier

Avishai Cohen Quartet

Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan

Bill Frisell and the Mesmerists featuring Tony Scheer, Kenny Wollesen and the films of Bill Morrison

Brooklyn Rider

Carl Stone

Carla Bley TRIOS with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow

Carla Kihlstedt

Clarice Jensen + Jonathan Turner: For this from that will be filled

Coupler

DeJohnette Coltrane Garrison

Derek Gripper

Evan Parker / Matt Wright Trance Map+

Ever Present Orchestra featuring Stephen O’Malley and Oren Ambarchi

Harold Budd

International Contemporary Ensemble performing the work of Carla Kihlstedt, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Ellen Reid, Ashley Fure

Irreversible Entanglements

Jerusalem In My Heart

Jlin

Joan La Barbara: Voice is the Original Instrument

Joep Beving

Kara-Lis Coverdale

Kayhan Kalhor

Kim Kashkashian

Lonnie Holley

Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl

Mathias Eick Quintet

Matt Wilson’s Honey & Salt

Mercury Rev

Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble Cellular Songs

Nashville Ballet: Lucy Negro Redux
Conceived, directed, and choreographed by Paul Vasterling
with music composed and performed by Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi
and poetry by Caroline Randall Williams

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Nik Bärtsch’s RONIN

Nils Frahm

Peter Gregson

Rachel Grimes: The Way Forth

Rafiq Bhatia: Breaking English

Ralph Towner

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi

Richard Thompson: Killed in Action

Roomful of Teeth

Schlippenbach Trio

Shai Maestro Trio

Sons of Kemet

Spiritualized

Sun of Goldfinger (David Torn, Tim Berne, Ches Smith)

The Art Ensemble of Chicago

The Comet is Coming

The Messthetics

Theo Bleckmann: Berlin – Songs of Love and War, Peace and Exile – and – Hello Earth! The Music of Kate Bush

Thumbscrew

Tim Berne’s Snakeoil

TRIPTYCH: On the Work of Robert Mapplethorpe
Featuring Roomful of Teeth. Composed by Bryce Dessner. Libretto by Korde Arrington Tuttle feat. the work of Patti Smith & Essex Hemphill. Directed by Daniel Fish

Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn

Wadada Leo Smith’s Nda, Performing “Divine Love” With Bobby Naughton and Dwight Andrews

Wadada Leo Smith Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk

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