The 2nd Annual City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival will be held in the Atlanta area on May 7-9, 2009.

Kavarna in the Oakhurst section of Decatur, GA (minutes away from Atlanta) is once again the venue for the Festival Event. Kavarna offers a perfect vibe for the performances, with great sound and a nice selection of food and beverage for festival attendees. Kavarna is a non-smoking and all-ages venue.

The list of performers include some of the best electronic musicians from around the U.S. heard on radio stations like Music From the Hearts of Space, Echoes, Star’s End, Soma FM, StillStream, Galactic Travels, and more, and are from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Musical styles ranged from ambient to downtempo chillout to Berlin school to IDM to space rock to experimental. This is not a DJ event.

Real electronic music performed live by humans!

Details below

Performers and tentative schedule for the three-day event are:

Thursday, May 7, 2009

• 7pm- Different Skies All-stars (John Rossi III, Jonathan Mills, Kevin Haller, Jim Combs plus guests)
• 8pm- citizenGreen
• 9pm- Broken Symmetry
• 10pm- Tony Gerber
• 11pm- Masik

Friday, May 8, 2009

• 7pm- aTHeNa Blue
• 8pm- Earthgirl
• 9pm- Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel
• 10pm- Xeriod Entity (Howard Moscovitz, Greg Waltzer, Bill Fox)
• 11pm- Paul Vnuk & Klimchak

Saturday, May 9, 2009
Afternoon session

• 1pm- Ivan Schwartz
• 2pm- Don Hassler
• 3-5pm- Richard Lainhart workshop- Multi-Dimensional Control for Realtime Analog Synthesis Performance*

Evening session

• 7pm- Kathy Raimey
• 8pm- Mark Mahoney
• 9pm- Richard Lainhart
• 10pm- Kevin Spears & Shane Morris
• 11pm- Richard Devine & Joshua Kay

For more information, ticketing, and performer bios and event schedule:
http://www.cityskies.com

All proceeds from ticket sales will go to performers for this event.

Tickets are available online at Brown Paper Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/52609?prod_id=10495

Discount tickets are available for buyers of multiple days or sessions.

Purchasers of the 3 day – 4 session ticket save $18 over buying at the door.

Purchasers of the 2 day – 3 session ticket save $11 over buying at the door.

And purchasers of the All day Saturday ticket save $6 over buying at the door.

Single session tickets saves $2 over buying at the door.

Venue location -
Kavarna, 707 East Lake Drive, Decatur, GA 30030