Big Ears Festival

Folk Music & Beyond Playlist for June 8, 2019
Highlights of the Big Ears Music Festival
With Guest Host Michele Flannery

A recap of the recent genre-bending Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN

The Comet Is Coming, “Birth of Creation,” Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (Impulse)

Art Ensemble of Chicago, “Saturday Morning,” We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration (PI)

Nicole Mitchell, “Jo Jar,” Artifacts (482)

New Set

Avey Tare, “Saturdays (Again),” Cows on Hourglass Pond (Domino)

Meredith Monk speaks about inspiration for Cellular Songs

Meredith Monk, Katie Geissinger, Allison Sniffin, “Cellular Songs Work-in-Progress,” Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY

Roomful of Teeth, “The Ascendant No. 1. The Beginning And...,” Render (New Amsterdam)

Bill Frisell & Petra Haden, “The Quiet Room,” Petra Haden & Bill Frisell (Sovereign Artists)

New Set

Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi, “I’m on My Way,” There Is No Other (Nonesuch)

Rhiannon Giddens, “At the Purchaser’s Option,” Augusta Vocal Week 2016 live recording

Mary Lattimore, “Never Saw Him Again,” Hundreds of Days (Ghostly International)

New Set

Richard Thompson, “The Cold Blue (Guitar Version),” The Cold Blue ( NEW WEST)

Richard Thompson, “Over There,” The Cold Blue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Score)

Richard Thompson, “No Tomorrow,” The Cold Blue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Score)

Kayhan Kalhor and Ali Bahrami Fard, “Pluck a Star from the Sky,” I Will Not Stand Alone (World Village)

Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert, “I Wanna See Something New,” The Ledges (Dead Reckoning)

Uncle Earl, “Girl I Left Behind Me,” live 2006 Old Settlers Music Fest, Dripping Springs, Texas

Hawktail, “Unless,” Unless (Padiddle Records)

New Set

Bill MacKay, “Birds of May,” Fountain Fire (Drag City)

Mountain Man, “Around and Around,” Sings John Denver (Nonesuch)

Derek Gripper, “Duga,” Libraries on Fire (New Cape)

New Set

Irreversible Entanglements, “Fireworks,” Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem)

Makaya McCraven feat. Dezron Douglas, “Black Lion,” Universal Beings (International Anthem)

Plus, a few local acts playing at the Phono del Sol Festival in SF 6/15

Music Under Announcements:

Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi, “There Is No Other,” There Is No Other (Nonesuch)