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Watch Part 1 here, which features Abner Jay, Anthony Braxton, Kelly Hogan, and Bill Taft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0izdXImZQA

Over three days in April, 1993 at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN, the Shaking Ray Levi Society presented an incredibly diverse music festival with internationally acclaimed artists.

This is the second part of a 20-minute mini-documentary about the festival, featuring footage from free improv violist LaDonna Smith (Trans Museq, String Trek), Catherine Jauniaux and Ikue Mori (DNA, Electric Masada), Amy Denio (The Tiptons Sax Quartet & Drums), guitarist Davey Williams (Trans Museq, Curlew), cellist Tom Cora (Skeleton Crew, Curlew), Southern Improvisers, Caroliner Rainbow, the Shaking Ray Levis (Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner), and saxophonist and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Anthony Braxton. The documentary is by filmmaker Michael Johnson.

In this video, Anthony Braxton says the following about the Shaking Ray Levi Society (a Chattanooga-based non-profit arts organization): Only in our country are our children not receiving the benefits of the dynamic energies taking place in our culture and in the heritage of our cultureand so, the work of the Shaking Ray Levi Society in my opinion is very important because they are seeking to provide an alternative to the marketplace dynamics.

http://www.shakingray.com