Welcome to the Next to Last Festival! We are a charitable, independent music, film, and arts festival/parade/happening based in Athens, GA. Our next fest is currently slated for an October 2010 lift off! To date, we have showcased over 30 unique and inspiring musical acts from all over the country. We've also played host to independent film screenings, progressive speakers, performance art, a vendors market, a farmer's market, and a community info center for creatures of all ages all in the great North Georgia outdoors.
What we're trying to do is grind against the grain of the festival experience that so many have become accustomed to - paying too much for too little and getting the short end of their ticket stub. We want to take that seed and spread it out over an entire town for a long weekend next year. The vibe will be growing not just in venues or on stages, but with performances in the streets, shops, gardens, pastures, and balconies the town over. Each year thus far, we've experimented with groundbreaking artists, creative venues, site-specific performances, family accommodations, and fair pricing options.
With Kickstarter.com and your help, we're looking to expand our horizons even further. If you help Kickstart the 2010 Next to Last Festival , not only can you help to be sure that this project-for-the-people stays automatic for the people for years to come, but you can get EXCLUSIVE recordings by a host of incredible artists, new CDs by Asthmatic Kitty artists, tickets to all of the events, VIP and backstage passes, airfare, and even more!! Expect bigger names, cooler venues all over the city, more films, more speakers and guest appearances, more artists and artisans, more food, more for kids, more for adults, more for your dog, more for the earth, more for your friends, and more for you! Our Kickstarter is a quest to support our and your creative Athens community and a team of workers that hopes to realize collective dreams among us.
Kickstarter.com contributors will be the first ones privy to our first headliner announcement - which will happen during fundraising!
Previous performers include:
Daedelus
Phosphorescent
Themselves (Doseone and Jel)
Circulatory System
Diane Cluck
Summer Hymns
Dark Meat
Quiet Hooves
Chris Schlarb
Liz Janes
Spenking
Hope for Agoldensummer
Deaf Judges
Long Legged Woman
Mouser
Albert Suttle
Paper Tanks
BetterPeople
Jookabox
and many many more...
next to last songs vol. 2
1.) Diane Cluck - I'm Not Who You Think I Am (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
2.) Grampall Jookabox - Ponta (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
3.) Deaf Judges - Night Court (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
4.) Hope for Agoldensummer - Love Like A Sailor (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
5.) Spenking - Boy Moses (Viking Moses cover live at the Next to Last Festival)
6.) Circulatory System - untitiled (Unreleased demo)
7.) Daedelus - Live at the Next to Last Festival
8.) Geoff Reacher - excerpt (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
9.) Here Comes A Big Black Cloud!! - The Southern Suite (Unreleased Demo)
10.) Themselves - You Devil You (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
11.) Diane Cluck - Sandy Ree (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
12.) Spenking - Bad Blood Bubble-Up (Live at WUGA, Athens)
13.) Ishues - Home of the Brave
14.) Themselves - Poison Pit (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
15.) Liz Janes - Jerusalem (Live at WUGA, Athens)
16.) Long Legged Woman - My Ghost (Unreleased)
17.) Hope for Agoldensummer - Fourth Night (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
18.) Diane Cluck - 1/2 A Million Miles From Home (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
19.) Chris Schlarb - Twilight and Ghost Stories (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
Daniel Clay - Pony Express (iTunes only bonus track)
next to last songs vol. 1
1.) My Parents - (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
2.) Geoff Reacher - Look Me In the Eye (Live at the Secret Squirrel, Athens)
3.) Madeline - Dollar Beer (Live at the Secret Squirrel, Athens)
4.) Mouser - Crack (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
5.) Summer Hymns - 14 Inches of Snow (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
6.) My Parents - Keep on Knockin' (Congos cover live at the Next to Last Festival)
7.) Bellyache - Charlie Hustle (Unreleased demo)
8.) My Parents - (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
9.) Some Animal - The Longest River in Africa (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
10.) Courtesan - (Live at the Next to Last Festival)
11.) Better People - Florida Revisited
12.) Phosphorescent - At Death, A Proclamation (Live at the Caledonia, Athens)
13.) Paper Tanks - Old Dogs
14.) Quiet Hooves - (untitled) (Live at the Secret Squirrel, Athens)
Proceeds from last year's festival were split evenly between Common Ground organizations as well as the artists who are graciously volunteering their time. Common Ground is Athens' and many other cities' center for progressive social change. They are a hands-on organization with an actually palpable impact on the community. Common Ground is responsible for many programs helping out your actual neighbors with things like our only bike recycling program, our only free computer recycling and assistance program, community outreach centers, educational literature, community gardens, and a plethora of other great directly effective ventures.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR NEXT YEAR!!!! YES, YOU WITH THE HANDS! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME TO THE EVENT FOR FREE AND HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN, GET IN TOUCH!!!
[email protected] www.nexttolastfest.com
Vendors interested in selling their wares at the fest and businesses interested in being a part of a great event for the community should visit www.nexttolatfest.com and contact
[email protected]
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