[[PHOTOF53]] h3(serif-black). *THE VIC SHOWS* A CELEBRATION OF VIC CHESNUTT'S LIFE AND MUSIC. A 2-night event at the "*40 Watt Club*"://40watt.com in Vic's hometown of Athens, GA will include performances by a long list of musicians that played with Vic and whose lives he touched. *1ST NIGHT - FRIDAY FEB. 19* "TICKETS"://www.pitchatent.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=01&Product_Code=tix526&Category_Code=40watt Five Eight Daniel Hutchens (of Bloodkin) Jack Logan and Kelly Keneipp Ham1 Dave Barbe & the Quick Hooks Todd McBride and Rob Veal Kelly Hogan Amorphous Strums Ben Mize Curtiss Pernice and Sam Mixon Flash to Bang Time Todd Nance and William Tonks Jill Carnes John Keane *2ND NIGHT - SATURDAY FEB. 20* "TICKETS"://www.pitchatent.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=01&Product_Code=tix527&Category_Code=40watt Will Johnson (of Centro-matic) Elf Power Victoria Williams Howe Gelb Patterson Hood Mercyland Guy Picciotto and Mt. Zion Lambchop Tenement Halls Mark Linkous Jeffrey Richards -------- DONATIONS CAN STILL BE MADE TO VIC'S FAMILY THROUGH A PAGE SET UP BY KIRSTEN HERSH "*HERE.*"://kristinhersh.cashmusic.org/vic/ -------- OFFICIAL CONSTELLATION DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT Surrounded by family and friends, Vic Chesnutt died in Athens Georgia on Friday 25 December at 14:59. In the few short years that we knew him personally, Vic transformed our sense of what true character, grace and determination are all about. Our grief is inexpressible and Vic’s absence unfathomable. Don & Ian Constellation "The most important story to report now is not Vic’s death but a life and work overflowing with insight, humor, and yes, resilience. This, after all, was the man who wrote: “I thought I had a calling, anyway, I just kept dialing.” Sixteen extraordinary albums, five in the last couple of years; countless live shows so powerful and sublime they deeply altered the lives of those on the stage with Vic and those looking up, yes up, at him. The second most important story here has to do with a broken health care system depriving so many of the help they need to stay around and stay sane, and a society that never balks at providing more money for more wars but fights tooth and nail against decent care for its citizens. Vic’s death, just so you all know, did not come at the end of some cliché downward spiral. He was battling deep depression but also at the peak of his powers, and with the help of friends and family he was in the middle of a desperate search for help. The system failed to provide it. I miss him terribly. " Jem Cohen Filmmaker/photographer/_North Star Deserter_ producer "We have lost one of our great ones. His songs and his story remain." Michael Stipe I flew around a little room once. A line from Supernatural. He was just that. He possessed an unearthly energy and yet was humanistic with the common man in mind. He was entirely present and entirely somewhere else. A mystical somewhere else. A child and an old guy as he called himself. Before he made an album he said he was a bum. Now he is in flight bumming round beyond the little room. With his angel voice. Patti Smith "in 1991 i moved to athens georgia in search of god, but what I discovered instead was vic chesnutt. hearing his music completely transformed the way i thought about writing songs, and i will forever be in his debt. Jeff Mangum Neutral Milk Hotel "Years ago upon discovery, West of Rome consoled me when I was going under. A life saver with the straight story. I followed since then from a distance. Vic was a unique being, mind, voice. No one spoke or made music like that, with that particular timbre, vocabulary and perception. Fierce and direct or levitated, whimsical and ornamental, he always cut to the bone. And past that, to the soul. Its a shame. A national tragedy, when you look at the issues being faced." Mark McElhattan Film curator, New York Film Festival 2009-12-26T19:39:57-05:00

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