ToE Festival
 

http://www.tableoftheelements.com/

Day 1: Sea Changes & Coelacanths
Thursday, August 31

John Fahey Tribute/Record Release Concert
Loren Connors (New York)
San Agustin (New York/Atlanta)
John Fahey/Elizabeth Cotten video
Keenan Lawler (Lexington)

Day 2: Carnivals of Ecstasy
Friday, September 1

An Evening in the 1960s Underground
Hosted by Tony Conrad (New York)
World Premiere, a film by Ira Cohen, "Brain Damage"
World Premiere, a film by Ira Cohen, "Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda" (Expanded Edition)
Also featuring films by Jack Smith, Tony Conrad and Piero Heliczer
Hubcap City (Atlanta)

Day 3: Propellers in Love
Saturday, September 2

Rhys Chatham's Guitar Army (Paris)
Deerhunter (Atlanta)
One Umbrella (Austin)
Film and video featuring Charlemagne Palestine

Day 4: Slow Dazzles
Sunday, September 3

World Premiere, Rhys Chatham's Essentialist (Paris)
Tony Conrad (New York)
Leif Inge (Oslo) 24-hour concert "9 Beet Stretch"

Day 5: The Thundergods
Monday, September 4

Japanese New Music Festival, Ver. 4
Acid Mothers Temple SWR (Tokyo)
Ruins Alone (Tokyo) with
Akaten, Zoffy, Zubi Zuva X, Seikazoku, Shrink Wrap (Tokyo)

Fourth Annual Esplanade Memorial Goat Roast/Low Country Boil

Eyedrum / 290 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SE / Atlanta, Georgia / 30312 / USA

This sounds excellent, but Atlanta's just a bit too far for me to travel.

One of my musical regrets is that I didn't know TOTE even existed when they brought their roadshow over to London for the one and only time. They are such a conceptually fantastic label. Maybe ATP could get them to curate the next UK festival after Nightmare Before Christmas. Oh, if only....