Athens Creative Media Encounter (ACME Festival)

The first annual Athens Creative Media Encounter is a festival dedicated to presenting the highest quality jazz and improvised music and their related arts. Artistic Director Ken Vandermark (1999 MacArthur Fellow, saxophonist, improviser, and composer) has established himself internationally as an esteemed artist and a relentless promoter of this music.

Now, for the first time in the U.S., he brings together 22 international musicians and 2 journalists for a week of collaboration and dialogue.

Through a series of concerts, lectures, workshops, and seminars, the ACME Festival will offer an unparalleled opportunity to hear, see, encounter, and interact with music, musicians, art, and artists from Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.

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The first annual Athens Creative Media Encounter is a festival dedicated to presenting the highest quality jazz and improvised music and their related arts. Artistic Director Ken Vandermark (1999 MacArthur Fellow, saxophonist, improviser, and composer) has established himself internationally as an esteemed artist and a relentless promoter of this music.

Now, for the first time in the U.S., he brings together 22 international musicians and 2 journalists for a week of collaboration and dialogue.

Through a series of concerts, lectures, workshops, and seminars, the ACME Festival will offer an unparalleled opportunity to hear, see, encounter, and interact with music, musicians, art, and artists from Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.

“The MacArthur money gave Vandermark the chance to do something that most artists can't do, which is to advance his music in ways that would have been impossible otherwise,” says Bruno Johnson, owner of Okka Disk and a longtime champion of Vandermark's work. “And that's just what he's doing.”

Peter Br

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