So last night my friend and I drove up to Knoxville, Tennessee (about 4 hours from my hometown) to see Sufjan Stevens accompanying Clogs at the Big Ears Music Festival. The car ride was nice, drove through too may mountains to count blaring Sufjan in the car. We thought we had planned pretty fairly well ahead, we left at 10:30 hoping to get there early and be able to wonder around before the doors open. That idea was shot as soon as we passed a sign that informed us we were entering “eastern time.” We started freaking out thinking we were going to miss the show because we neglected to remember that not everyone runs on central time, oh well. BUT WE MADE IT. And we even had some time to kill and wonder around the festival. We went into the Bijou Theater to take our seats, an hour after we were supposed to, but that was ok…we were about to see SUFJAN STEVENS. It really was an amazing show, there were too many guest artists to count. We had no idea who Clogs was but they were good. No one else seemed to know either, so we didn’t feel as bad. Everyone was there for Sufjan. But Sufjan played one song of his own on the piano (a new one), which was beyond amazing. Then for the last song he came out and played his banjo and sang along with everyone else. It was an amazing show, even if we drove 8 hours in one day just to hear one song. I was disappointed we couldn’t stay to see the other shows. I will definitely be back for Big Ears next year.
