Since its inception in 1986, the SRL Society has presented such diverse acts as England's improvisational guitar pioneer Derek Bailey, West African kora player Foday Musa Suso, classical Indian violinist, L.Shankar, National Public Radio correspondents Andrei Codrescu and David Sedaris, New York jazz violinist Leroy Jenkins, multi-wind instrumentalist J. Parran, saxophone legend Anthony Braxton, t
he last traveling Minstrel Performer Abner Jay, and the famous folk artist Rev. In 1994 the Shaking Ray Levi Society was awarded a Number One rating as a "presenter of adventurous music" by Einstein's Guide to the Musical Universe, a nationally recognized database produced by Roulette out of New York. The SRLS Performance Series has brought a wide variety of artists to Chattanooga stages, including performance artists such as Laurie Anderson and the Shelley Hirsch, independent rock such as Olivia Tremor Control, Cat Power and David Pajo, and multicultural music such as the Tibetan Monks of the Drepung Loseling Institute and Djalma.
