The Liminal Festival is a three-day music festival to be held September 24, 25 & 26, 2009 at various venues throughout the greater Chapel Hill/Carrboro, North Carolina area. The Liminal Festival’s goals are twofold: to bring together musicians who are bridging genres, working to integrate genres or otherwise bend the rules of traditional musical genre, for performances to highlight the possibilities of this cross-genre experimentation and to expose listeners, especially underserved or otherwise...
The Liminal Festival is a three-day music festival to be held September 24, 25 & 26, 2009 at various venues throughout the greater Chapel Hill/Carrboro, North Carolina area. The Liminal Festival’s goals are twofold: to bring together musicians who are bridging genres, working to integrate genres or otherwise bend the rules of traditional musical genre, for performances to highlight the possibilities of this cross-genre experimentation and to expose listeners, especially underserved or otherwise nontraditional audiences, to these performances.
There is at least one spot available for a Sonicbids artist, who will be paid $150-$200, depending on the distance traveled to the festival. The festival will include private outreach performances for underserved audiences, a free and open to the public performance on Friday, September 25 and will culminate in all festival acts performing back to back in both theatres of the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC on Saturday, September 26.
Liminality, loosely defined, means existing on the threshold of different states. They use the term in regards to music to define musicians and artists working outside of the confines of genres, alongside the confines of genre, or in the plane where genres get mashed together. Often this means more than one genre is represented in that artist’s musical output, or the musician’s visual aesthetic is so much a part of the experience as to blend the distinction of performance art and music. In curating this festival, they make it a point to invite artists whose creative work is wholly unique and deeply respected, admired and the average listener could find accessible and appealing.
Admitted to the festival already are The Lisps, Make a Rising, Wes Phillips, Felix Obelix, Billy Sugarfix, and INVISIBLE: Rhythm 1001. Genres accepted can be anything, so long as it fits with the notion of cross-genre experimentation, or music existing outside the confines of genre. Please visit LiminalFestival.com and listen to the other artists performing, to give you an idea of what this festival is looking for.