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Comedian Gregg Turkington, in character as America's Funnyman Neil Hamburger, leads a tongue-in-cheek architectural tour of downtown during the Big Ears festival on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009 at Market Square.

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Comedian Gregg Turkington, in character as America's Funnyman Neil Hamburger, leads a tongue-in-cheek architectural tour of downtown during the Big Ears festival on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009 at Market Square.

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  • Comedian Gregg Turkington, in character as America's Funnyman Neil Hamburger, leads a tongue-in-cheek architectural tour of downtown during the Big Ears festival on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009 at Market Square.
  • Composer Philip Glass performs Metamorphosis, a piano work in five sections, during the Big Ears festival on Saturday at the Bijou Theatre.
  • Austrian-based musician Christian Fennesz performs with computer and guitar on Friday at the Bijou Theatre.
  • Art student Noura Eltabbakh from Burlington, VT, plays a theremin, an electronic instrument provided by the Bob Moog Foundation, on Saturday at the Woodruff Building.
  • Music fans crowd the stage to hear David Daniell perform on Friday at the Square Room.
  • Kevin Green from Columbia, S.C., holds a Kazoobie kazoo at the Woodruff Building.
  • Trumpeter Jon Hassell concentrates during a performance on Friday at the Bijou Theatre. It was the first-ever Tennessee performance by Hassell who was born in Memphis.
  • Pat Abbarno from Knoxville and Billy Roberts from Asheville, N.C., play a theremin, an electronic instrument provided by the Bob Moog Foundation, on Saturday at the Woodruff Building.
  • A concert goer walks past the marquee after a show by Antony and the Johnsons on Saturday at the Bijou Theatre.
  • Antony Hegarty of the group Antony and the Johnsons performs on Saturday at the Bijou Theatre. The band's new album 'The Crying Light' recently debuted at No. 1 on the European Billboard chart.
  • Bassist Lloyd Swanton of the Australian trio The Necks performs on Saturday at the Bijou Theatre. He has won best bassist in the Australian Jazz and Blues Awards three times.

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