Sun, 04 April 2004

Athens Creative Media Encounter - 2004, March 31 - April 4

It is a festival dedicated to presenting the highest quality jazz and improvised music and their related arts.  Artistic Director Ken Vandermark (1999 MacArthur Fellow, saxophonist, improviser, and composer) has established himself internationally as an esteemed artist and a relentless promoter of this music.  Now, for the first time in the U.S., he brings together a host of international musicians for a week of collaboration and dialogue.  Through a series of concerts, lectures, workshops, and seminars, the ACME Festival will offer an unparalleled opportunity to hear, see, encounter, and interact with the music, musicians, art, and artists from Germany,  Norway, Sweden, and the United States. The website is www.acmefestival.com (tickets and information will be available soon.) Please find the performance schedule below and don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.

All sets $10.00, festival pass $100.00

Wednesday, March 31at Lyndon House Arts Center

• 7:30pm  Keynote Address: Ken Vandermark, free

Thursday, April 1st, 40 Watt Club

• 8:00pm Atomic (Magnus Broo, Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten, Fred Ljungkvist, Paal Nilssen-Love, Kjell Nordeson)
• 9:30pm Peter Brptzmann/Nasheet Waits Duo
• 1:00pm Ad hoc group Organized by Joe Morris

Friday, April 2nd, 40 Watt Club

• 8:00pm Joe Morris Solo
• 9:30pm The Thing & Joe McPhee (Mats Gustaffson, Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten, Joe McPhee, Kjell Nordeson)
• 11:00pm Ad hoc Group Organized by Peter Brotzmann
• 12:30am Atomic/School Days (Jeb Bishop, Magnus Broo, Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten, Fred Ljungkvist, Paal Nilssen-Love, Kjell Nordeson, Ken Vandermark)

Saturday, April 3rd, 40 Watt Club

• 3:00pm Free Fall (Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten, Ken Vandermark, Havard Wiik)
• 4:30pm Triage (Jason Ajemian, Tim Daisy, Dave Rempis)
• 6:00pm Joe McPhee Solo
• 8:00pm Vandermark 5 (Jeb Bishop, Tim Daisy, Kent Kessler, Dave Rempis, Ken Vandermark)
• 9:30pm Joe Maneri Trio (Joe Maneri, Mat Maneri, Randy Peterson)
• 11:00pm Ad hoc Group Organized by Kent Kessler
• 12:30am Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet (with Jeb Bishop, Peter Brotzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Kent Kessler, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love, Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Michael Zerang)

Sunday, April 4th. Athens Institute for Contemorary Art (ATHICA)

• 3:00pm School Days (Jeb Bishop, Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love, Kjell Nordeson, Ken Vandermark)
• 4:30pm Joe Maneri/Mat Maneri Duo
• 600pm Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet (with Jeb Bishop, Peter Brotzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Kent Kessler, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love, Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Michael Zerang)
• 8:00pm Afterfest Party

Visual Arts ongoing at Lyndon House Arts Center

• Peter Brotzmann: The Inexplicable Flyswatter (Works On Paper: 1959-64), second exhibition in North America, free

Workshops

• April 1-2 at UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, schedule TBA, free

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