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KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB

  • eyedrum 515 Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard Southwest Atlanta, GA, 30312 United States (map)

SAVE THE DATE:
Registration for the next KBC on January 16, 2025, opens on Friday, December 20 at 10 AM. Come back then to fill out the questionnaire and submit it for the event selection process HERE.

Established in 2004, KBC takes place every 3rd Thursday at eyedrum art & music gallery from 8:00-11:30pm.

In its various incarnations over the years, Kirkwood Ballers Club has created an environment where generations of avant-garde musical energy and talent have flourished throughout periods of existence and inactivity.

During its early years at Lenny’s Bar, a parade of local punk, hip-hop, jazz, and indie rock musicians would sign up to perform including everyone from garage punks and experimental musicians Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, and Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, Janelle Monáe to Grammy-winning saxophone player Kebbi Williams of Tedeschi Trucks Band. All utilized the format to create music in the moment that expanded upon their typical repertoires.

 "The Kirkwood Ballers Club was always a place of pure freedom. I learned from KBC at Lenny’s Bar and from the scene at Eyedrum how to be free. I saw some of the most original and provocative things at the KBC, and it totally affected my life as an artist.”- Kebbi Williams 

KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB, Atlanta’s experimental open forum, lives on at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery every third Thursday of the month.

WHEN: Every Third Thursday of the month from 8-11:30pm 

WHERE: eyedrum art & music gallery 515 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30312 - eyedrum.org

Explosive scene captured during the first Kirkwood Ballers Club at Eyedrum’s new West End location. Filmed on October 21, 2021 by Willow Goldstein, featuring performance artist Nathan Emerson. 

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