The title pretty much sums up the game plan. 28 hours of non-stop music and poetry, from a long list of very talented artists (see below). The Rudyard Kipling will host the event on April 11th and 12th, so you have one month to start preparing mentally. Tickets are $21 and you can pick them up at Ear x-tacy.
Read A Brief History of Insomnicathaon
You probably can’t read the fine print, so here is the line-up…
Frank Messina (NEW YORK)
Tyrone Cotton (KENTUCKY)
Southside (KENTUCKY)
Fools Crow/formerly Serpent Wisdom (KENTUCKY)
Charlie Newman (CHICAGO)
Tom House (TENNESSEE)
W. Loran Smith (KENTUCKY)
Susi Wood (KENTUCKY)
Sarah Elizabeth (KENTUCKY)
George Wallace (NEW YORK)
Amy Cunningham (OHIO)
Erin Keane (KENTUCKY)
Brigid Kaelin (KENTUCKY)
John Paul Wright (KENTUCKY, LEADING 4-HOUR DRUM CIRCLE, 4 TO 8AM)
Mary Kennedy (KENTUCKY),
Shakespeare’s Monkey (INDIANA)
Lars & Garvey Tones (INDIANA)
John Mann (KENTUCKY)
Arch (KENTUCKY)
Christopher Felver (CALIFORNIA)
films (8AM TO 1PM SATURDAY)
Dean McClain (KENTUCKY)
Andy Cook (KENTUCKY)
Rob Zoschke (WISCONSIN)
Nickole Brown (KENTUCKY)
Gui Stuart (KENTUCKY)
Gidget Tincher (KENTUCKY)
John Hagan (Kentucky)
Jacob Boone (KENTUCKY)
Danny Flanigan & Kelly Wilkinson (KENTUCKY)
Elizabeth Jasper (MISSISSIPPI)
Ben Waldridge (MISSISSIPPI)
Danny O’Day’s Circus Freak Show featuring Great Baldini (KENTUCKY),
Vampire Squid (KENTUCKY)
Bu Hao Ting (KENTUCKY)
Todd Autry (KENTUCKY)
Windup Birds (KENTUCKY)
geneticpoetic (KENTUCKY)
Rufee Slippers (KENTUCKY)
Kara Beth Rasure (INDIANA)
Dawn Tilton (KENTUCKY)
Wrestling Squid (KENTUCKY)
Erica Jones (KENTUCKY)
Scott Moore (KENTUCKY) &
Ron Whitehead (THE WANDERER)!!!
Full Schedule Below the Break…
April 11, 2008 10pm, Ron intro/welcome to INSOMNIACATHON 2008 which includes new Black Pig Liberation Front (Boston) Tribute to/for Ron
10:10pm W. Loran Smith (global poet) & Susi Wood (world folk) Louisville, Kentucky
10:45pm Brigid Kaelin (Alt-country-cabaret with an accordion and occasional yodeling) Louisville, Kentucky
11:30 pm John Mann Band (brigid kaelin’s favorite louisville songwriter) Louisville, Kentucky
12:10am Danny Flanigan & Kelly Wilkinson (country/folk) Louisville, Kentucky
12:50am Frank Messina (New York Mets Poet Laureate, INSOMNIACATHON 2008 headliner poet) New York City
1:25am Gidget Tincher (Appalachian poet) Louisville, Kentucky
1:40am Ron Whitehead & Southside (Outlaw Country & Spoken Word featuring Scott Mertz guitar harmonica vocals, Sarah Elizabeth guitar vocals, Southside Freddy Wethington electric guitar, Andy Cook percussion & didgeridoo, Ron Whitehead vocals) Louisville, Kentucky
2:30 Wrestling The Squid
4am to 9am Christopher Felver, & other, films (photographer/documentary filmmaker) San Francisco, California
9am to 1pm 4-hour non-stop reading of poetry books by Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso and Jack Kerouac
1pm (Saturday the 12th) Gui Stuart (young prolific writer/poet) Louisville, Kentucky
1:10pm John Hagan (pithy poet) Louisville, Kentucky
1:20pm Dawn Tilton (young Kentucky Center poet) Louisville, Kentucky
1:30pm Jake Boone (young Bardstown Road poet) Louisville, Kentucky
1:40pm Ben Waldridge (young Mississippi poet) Jackson, Mississippi
1:50pm Andy Cook
2pm The Windup Birds (new experimental band) Louisville, Kentucky
2:40pm geneticpoetic (new experimental band) Louisville, Kentucky
3:20pm Bu Hao Ting: maximalismo progressive post-punk
4pm Vampire Squid: Details are scarce on this mysterious group, but legend has it that in ancient times, when The Vampire Squid ruled supreme over his cephalopod brethren, there rose a brilliantly jeweled and many splendored palace in the center of the Tethys Sea. Descended from an ancient and powerful race of spacefaring entities, the cephalopods were the masters of a puny two-legged race:humans. After Eons of bloody war, the humans managed to pull The Vampire Squid from power, and banished them and their cohorts to the depths. This band professes a desire to bring back the Cephalopods’ ruling glory through otherworldy melodies, and mesmerizing rhythms. Join them if you wish to be on the side of might.
4:40pm Rufee Slippers: Ruffee Slippers presents a full mixture of soft/heavy textures, provacative imagery, arpeggio nightmares sprinkled with bossonova metal, intelligent tongue in cheek and yummy tongue on cheek.
5:20pm ARCH: ARCH combines the melodic nuance of 70’s guitar rock with a progressive edge and socially poignant message. The music and the words are honest; there is no facade. ARCH. Abromavage, Rose,Cook, Helvey. In memory of Rock and Roll.
6pm Todd & Kevin Autry (poet laureate of bluegrass music) Rosine, Kentucky
6:30pm Dean McClain (backroads fisherman homeric poet) Burgin, Kentucky
6:45pm Rob Zoschke (muckraker writer/poet) Chicago, Illinois/Door County, Wisconsin
7pm Yoruba Kikiloma-Mason (spirit soul singer) Louisville Kentucky
7:20pm Jinn Fuller Renfro (spoken word artist) Louisville, Kentucky
7:30pm Elizabeth Jasper (Mississippi anti-death penalty psychic poet) Gold Coast, Mississippi
7:45pm Kara Beth Rasure (young folk singer) Evansville, Indiana
8:05pm Erin Keane (matriarch of InKY poet) Louisville, Kentucky
8:20pm Mary Kennedy (poet/writer) Louisville, Kentucky
8:35pm Shakespeare’s Monkey (extra terrestrial travelin band) Evansville, Indiana
9:05pm Lars & The Garvey Tones (way far out multi-dimensional saw band) Evansville, Indiana
9:35pm George Wallace (Long Island Poet Laureate) Long Island, New York
9:50pm Sarah Elizabeth (oldtime mountain folk rock) Woodville, Kentucky
10:20pm Nickole Brown (Sarabande poet) Louisville, Kentucky
10:35pm Amy Cunningham (groove poet) Cincinnati, Ohio
10:50pm Fools Crow/formerly Serpent Wisdom (world jam) Louisville, Kentucky
11:30pm Wendy Colonna (award winning singer/songwriter ) Austin, Texas
midnight Charlie Newman (urban street poet) Chicago, Illinois w/Mark Noderer (soundscape artist), Louisville Kentucky
12:15am Tom House (surreal oldtime mountain singing poet) Nashville Tennessee
12:45am Ron Whitehead (the wanderer) w/Erica Jones (bassoon) & Scott Moore (violin) Kentucky & Canada, Joshua Thomas (guitar) Kentucky
1am Tyrone Cotton (blues folk) Louisville, Kentucky
1:30am Frank Messina (New York Mets Poet Laureate, INSOMNIACATHON 2008 featured poet) New York City
1:50am Danny O’Day’s Circus Freak Show featuring The Great Baldini (ATTENTION!
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BOY AND GIRLS!
DANNY O’DAY’S CIRCUS SIDE-SHOW WITH THE “GREAT BALDINI”
SOMEONE ONCE ASKED, “BALDINI, WHY DO YOU EXPOSE YOUR BODY TO SUCH MINDLESS TORTURES (EATING FIRE, WALKING UP A STAIRWAY OF RAZOR SHARP SWORDS, ETC, ETC? HE REPLIED “I DO IT FOR THE FANS! I DO IT FOR THE FANS!”
BE SURE TO COME OUT AND SEE WHAT BALDINI HAS UP HIS SLEEVE OR NOSE.) ufos, alien presences, not from this earth
2:30am Ron Whitehead & Southside (Outlaw Country & Spoken Word featuring Scott Mertz guitar harmonica vocals, Sarah Elizabeth guitar vocals, Southside Freddy Wethington electric guitar, Andy Cook percussion & didgeridoo, Ron Whitehead vocals) Louisville, Kentucky
3am The End
