"THE INDEPENDENTS" FESTIVAL

[Kreilly]

TOMPKINS SQUARE Presents:

Thursday, January 4

Bern Nix

Charles Gayle

Peter Walker

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, December 8, 2006

NATION'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS INDEPENDENT RECORD LABELS, ARTISTS TO CONVERGE AT NYC'S MOST UNIQUE PERFORMANCE SPACE FOR MONTH-LONG MUSIC FESTIVAL

Event: "THE INDEPENDENTS" FESTIVAL

Venue: ISSUE PROJECT ROOM

Address: 400 Carroll Street, between Bond and Nevins; Brooklyn, NY 11231

Dates: JANUARY 4-28, 2007

Press inquiries: frontporchproductionsrg@gmail.com

Website: www.quandros.com/gowanus and www.frontporchproductions.org (after Dec. 11)

Directions: www.issueprojectroom.org/contact.html

Start: 8:00 PM nightly (with some exceptions)

Admission: $15 nightly

Producers: FRONT PORCH PRODUCTIONS, ISSUE PROJECT ROOM

Issue Project Room is New York City's most unique and distinctive performance space. Presented in cooperation with Tennessee-based Front Porch Productions, "THE INDEPENDENTS" is a mammoth music festival that will showcase over fifty artists from seven of this nation's most prestigious independent record labels. Throughout the month of January, New York will reverberate with the sounds of epic minimalism (Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham, Phill Niblock, Leif Inge), ecstatic clangor (Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Zeena Parkins, Gamelan Son of Lion), raw Americana (Jack Rose, Loren Connors, Peter Walker, No Neck Blues Band), free improv (Charles Gayle, Paul Flaherty, Bern Nix) and avant songsmithing (Christina Carter, Richard Bishop, Badgerlore, Lichens). Featuring an amazing array of improvised, minimal and outsider musics, as well as full programs of film and video, "THE INDEPENDENTS" promises to be an event of epic proportions, in an intimate setting.

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM

and FRONT PORCH PRODUCTIONS

Present

"THE INDEPENDENTS" FESTIVAL

JANUARY 4-28, 2007

Featuring showcases from the following independent record labels:

TOMPKINS SQUARE

XI

POGUS

LOCUST

ECSTATIC PEACE

FAMILY VINEYARD

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