2022 Pasafest!

CL’s Doug DeLoach Recommends: Following a COVID-induced hiatus, Pasafest returns to Pasaquan, the phantasmagorical 7-acre art compound constructed over three decades by Eddie Owens Martin, otherwise known as St. EOM (pronounced ohm), who died in 1986. Organized by the Pasaquan Preservation Society, the one-day festival showcases adventurous cultural endeavors from across the Southeast. An artists’ market specializing in folk and self-taught styles includes work by Bond Anderson, Elyse Mixon, Fountain City Mystic (Candice Crooke), Lee Laney, Meg Anderson, Smiley Creations and Tex Crawford, among many others. The musical lineup features Pylon Reenactment Society, Zeta, The Pink Stones, Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, Chew, Terror Pigeon, Alia Torres and Exotic Bird Hunter. New to Pasafest 2022 is a posse of poets and authors including Maconites Kevin Cantwell, John Charles Griffin and Hinda Jonathan; Kodac Harrison and Rupert Fike from Atlanta; recently published memoirist Tom Patterson from Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Columbus-based author Mamie Pound and Nick Norwood, who is a professor at nearby Columbus State University and director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians in Columbus, Georgia, and Nyack, New York. Handpicked food vendors, fortune tellers and St. EOM-knows-what-else will be part of the Pasafest fandango. -DD