Report: Big Ears Festival

Photos by Tim Kiernan; Above: The xx Last year, at the first Big Ears music festival in Knoxville, Tenn., Jon Hassell headlined the opening Friday night at the Bijou Theatre, then the event's largest venue. Despite two balconies and the twin overhead loges that flank both sides, the Bijou is spartan and intimate, holding about 750 people. Hassell is a Memphis-born composer and trumpeter who breathes electronic and acoustic tones into gradually shifting atmospheres. And so, it was an elegant, und...

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