Left Festival

Yes, Lexington is developing an artistic/music scene! Tuesday there was the 1st annual Fat Tuesday costume parade and club parties. This weekend there is the Left Festival:

THE LEFT FESTIVALEXXXINGTON
Sponsored by WRFL 88.1 FM and the Lexington Action Arts Collective
@ Artsplace 161 N. Mill St.
Lexington, KY
Sunday, February 29th Leap Day.
4pm sharp!-10pm
$3 ALL AGES
email- theleftfestivalexxxington@yahoo.com
Left Festival Website

The Left Festivalexxxington is an event put together by WRFL 88.1FM to
showcase the best Lexington (and a few other areas) has to offer in
experimental music. This festival will definitely be a treat for those not
afraid to dig into the flourishing regional underground scene encompassing
noise, drone, psychedelic, free rock/jazz, performance art, and countless
other styles. A gathering for the musically open-minded.

Performances by:
AUK THEATER (Lexington- Entomologist Irene Moon's sampledelic noise theater
troupe)
BURNING STAR CORE (Cincinatti, OH- Solo harvesting violin drones and
guttural vocal acrobatics)
WALTER CARSON (Lexington- guitar feedback drones)
EYES AND ARMS OF SMOKE (Lexington- Psychedelic folk waves of sound from
members of Hair Police)
IOVAE (Cincinatti, OH- Oscillator and shortwave radio third ear wall of
sound)
JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER (Portland, OR/Hudson, NY- Improvised rock/jazz/psych
collective)
LESLIE KEFFER (Athens, OH- subtle droning radio manipulations)
OWLCONER (Lexington- Folk theater/performance art)
PEZHEAD (Lexington- experimental live wire dub performance from Club Dub
member)
PORCUPINE (Lexington- arty, noisy post-punk clatter)
PRC (Lexington- Free sound improv from Lexington Action Arts Collective main
man Ross Compton)
LESLIE Q. (Philadelphia, PA- outsider free folk from Temple of Bon Matin
member)
N-TRON (Bowling Green, OH- homemade electronic sound experiments)
SWORD HEAVEN (Columbus, OH- brutal heavy metal/early industrial cavemen)
TAIWAN DETH (Nashville, TN- Free psychedelic electronic folk)
TEMPLE OF BON MATIN (Philadelphia, PA- Heavy Psychedelic free jazz rock)
THREE LEGGED RACE (Lexington- vibrating electronic drones)
TWO HEADED SNAKE (Nicholasville, KY- two piece doom metal, ex- Cadaver In
Drag)
VIRGIN EYE BLOOD BROTHERS (Louisville, KY- heavy electronic soundscapes)
VON HEMMLING (Lexington- twangy, oddball pop/rock)

SCHEDULE
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4:00PM- Porcupine
4:15PM- Two Headed Snake
4:30PM- Leslie Q
4:45PM- Walter Carson
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5:00PM- PRC
5:15PM- Temple of Bon Matin
5:45PM- Leslie Keffer
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6:00PM- Von Hemmling
6:15PM- Three Legged Race
6:30PM- N-Tron
6:45PM- Eyes and Arms of Smoke
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7:00PM- Taiwan Deth
7:15PM- Iovae
7:30PM- Sword Heaven
7:45PM- Virgin Eye Blood Bros
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8:00PM- Auk Theater
8:15PM- Burning Star Core
8:50PM- Jackie-O Motherfucker

*Pezhead and Owlconer will be performing multiple short sets between acts

The Left Festival