Music Performers
The list of artists who have performed at the Vision Festival is long and varied, including David S. Ware, Sam Rivers, Frank Lowe, Daniel Carter, William Parker, Roy Campbell, Jr., Hamid Drake, Nicole Mitchell, Rob Brown, Kidd Jordan, Henry Grimes, Marc Ribot, Chad Taylor, Rashied Ali, Joe McPhee, Jason Kao Hwang, Jayne Cortez, Fred Anderson, Matthew Shipp, Billy Bang, Eddie Gale, Whit Dickey, Amiri Baraka, Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Lacy, DJ Spooky, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power and Louis Moholo, among others. The festival also often features special "event" performances, such as the 2004 reunion of the Revolutionary Ensemble, who hadn't performed publicly together in almost thirty years.
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