Million Tongues Festival is a Chicago-based music festival organized by artist, writer, and musician, Plastic Crimewave. The festival showcases national and international folk, experimental and "cult" musicians from the '60s, '70s, '80s and beyond. It has been called Chicago's "annual convergence of freak-folksters and grassroots noisicians" Now in its fifth year, the fest has seen performances by Bert Jansch, Peter Walker, Michael Chapman, LSD March, Michael Yonkers, Simon Finn and Terry Reid, among others.
Simon Finn, LSD March, Michael Yonkers Band, Six Organs of Admittance, Jutok Kaneko/Shimura Koji, Charalambides, PG6, Plastic Crimewave Sound with guests, Espers, Kawabata Makoto with Kinski, Matt Valentine, Fursaxa, Nisennenmondai, Paul Flaherty/Chris Corsano, Josephine Foster & The Supposed, Taurpis Tula, Spires That in the Sunset Rise, The Cherry Blossoms, By Lightning to the Womb, The Civilized Age.
Sidestage: Panicsville, Lichens, Born Heller, Monostripe, Tom Carter, Goldblood, Inner Throne, Frankie Delmane, Nick Castro, Farms, MV Carbon, Davenport.