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Walker Mimms

Walker Mimms teaches history in the Bennington College Prison Education Initiative.

A Percussion Orgy in Tennessee

By Walker Mimms

After two years of pandemic silence, the Big Ears Festival came roaring back in March. Hordes of musicians carpetbagged Knoxville’s sleepy downtown for a long weekend of experiment and extravagance.

Ambrose Akinmusire and Andrew Cyrille. Courtesy Big Ears Festival. Photo: Billie Wheeler.

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