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Ashley Capps (Big Ears Festival Founder)

Ashley Capps, founder of the Big Ears Festival
Ashley Capps, founder of the Big Ears Festival. Photo courtesy of Capps.

Ashley Capps helped reinvent the music festival with Bonnaroo, then did it again with Big Ears, the eclectic annual celebration of jazz, folk, electronic music, and other flavors of music he mounts each spring in Knoxville, TN.

In this episode, he discusses how encounters with the music of Steve Reich, Julius Hemphill, and the Ramones shaped his course.

Essential Tremors is produced by Matt Byars and Lee Gardner and distributed by Your Public Studios.