The 2nd Annual City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival in Decatur, GA starts tomorrow, Thursday, May 7th at 7pm, and runs through midnight Saturday night, May 9th.
Discount tickets are available online at Brown Paper Tickets until the day of the show:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/52609?prod_id=10495Kavarna in the Oakhurst section of Decatur, GA (minutes away from Atlanta) is once again the venue for the Festival Event. Kavarna gives us a perfect vibe for the performances, with great sound and a nice selection of food and beverage for festival attendees. Kavarna is a non-smoking and all-ages venue.
The list of performers include some of the best electronic musicians from around the U.S. heard on radio stations like Music From the Hearts of Space, Echoes, Star's End, Soma FM, StillStream, Galactic Travels, and more, and are from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
Musical styles range from ambient to new age to downtempo chillout to Berlin school to IDM to space rock to experimental. This is not a DJ event.
For more information, ticketing, and performer bios and event schedule:
http://www.cityskies.comReal electronic music performed live by humans!
Performers and schedule for the three-day event are:
Thursday, May 7, 2009
7pm- citizenGreen (Georgia)
8pm- Different Skies All-Stars (Georgia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Wisconsin)
10pm- Broken Symmetry (Georgia)
11pm- Masik (Florida)
Friday, May 8, 2009
7pm- Earthgirl (Indiana)
8pm- Kathy Raimey (North Carolina)
9pm- Tony Gerber & John Rose (Tennessee)
10pm- Xeroid Entity (Pennsylvania)
11pm- Paul Vnuk Jr & Klimchak (Wisconsin & Georgia)
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Afternoon session
12noon- Andrew Weathers (North Carolina)
1pm- Don Hassler & Jason Butcher (Georgia)
2pm- Anonymi and Elbo Jones (Georgia)
3-5pm- Richard Lainhart workshop- Multi-Dimensional Control for Realtime Analog Synthesis Performance∗ (New York)
Evening session
7pm- Mark Mahoney (Tennessee)
8pm- Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel (Georgia)
9pm- Richard Lainhart (New York)
10pm- Kevin Spears & Shane Morris (Georgia & Arkansas)
11pm- Richard Devine & Joshua Kay (Georgia)
All proceeds from ticket sales will go to performers for this event.
If you can not join us in person, please tune into the live broadcast on www.StillStream.com
-Jim Combs
www.cityskies.com
www.myspace.com/cityskiesfestival