Photos by Robert Massie of Ekoostik Hookah and Ray
After a week
A year ago the Bravery were toiling in obscurity, recording on a laptop in a Chinatown walkup, struggling to make ends meet. By the early roar of 2005, they had appeared in every major music magazine here and abroad, and earned the label of the next big thing.
Celebrate over 25 years of sports, music, and road rash in downtown Athens, Georgia April 29 – May 1, 2005. Founded in 1980 by Gene Dixon, the Athens Twilight Criterium was the first nighttime bicycle race in the United States in over 60 years.
Friday April 29th, Twilight Music features a free concert in Downtown Athens – 300 Block of College Avenue. Nate Nelson, The Weight (featuring Joseph Plunkett) and Cracker are scheduled to perform.
The main event of the Athens Twilight, the men’s and women’s criterium, features cyclists representing teams from all over the nation and the world. The men’s criterium is a 60-km race around historic downtown Athens. The course start-finish is on Clayton Street at College Avenue. The 1-kilometer course runs clockwise on Clayton, Lumpkin, Washington and Thomas. The high-speed action of nighttime criterium racing is unparalleled in the world of spectator appeal and action sports. With $20,000 in prize money on the line, the Athens Twilight Criterium is dubbed the most insane criterium in the world. Don’t miss a minute of the evening
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks (with Matador labelmates Yo La Tengo and Laura Cantrell), Richard Thompson, M. Ward, the Band’s Garth Hudson, Calexico, John Hammond, the Wailers, Regina Carter, the Fiery Furnaces, Robert Earl Keen, McCoy Tyner and Little Anthony and the Imperials have signed on to play free concerts in and around Lower Manhattan this summer.
The majority of the shows are part of the Hudson River Festival, but a number are being separately organized via the Downtown Alliance Inc., as part of the Music at Castle Clinton series.
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