Main Stage Schedule
7:30pm Word of Mouth
8:45pm Passafire
10:15pm Devon Allman's Honeytribe

Alexander Boone Townsend was an advertising and graphic design major at Savannah College of Art and Design. He was tall, big-hearted, creative, spontaneous, outrageous, and loving. He was a free spirit who had an insatiable appetite for knowledge and adventure. He was a loyal and supportive friend.

As a child, Alex was bright and introspective, and from the very beginning marched to his own drummer.  In kindergarten, instead of playing soccer with the other boys at recess, he sat in the sandbox and built giant, intricate villages of sticks and sand.  He drew complicated mazes that most adults couldn't solve.   He spent the majority of his time in T-Ball looking for ladybugs and chasing butterflies. At his first grade open house, the teacher posted the children's essays on what they wanted to be when they grew up.  While all the other children wrote about their aspirations to become a surgeon or a lawyer, Alex wrote simply that he wanted to paint pictures on the beach.  He had an incredible ear for music, and sat at the piano or his drum set for hours working out songs and rhythms. He was a consummate collector -- his room at home was always like an archaeological dig, with his many collections from various stages of his life meticulously on display, beginning with rocks and fossils, through the Titanic and sports memorabilia, to an impressive World War II collection, to an exhaustive collection of everything Simpsons.

Alex attended high school at The Oliverian School, a small alternative boarding school in Pike, New Hampshire, where he made many close friends and distinguished himself in art, music, and outdoor adventure. After graduating from Oliverian, he completed a semester of mountaineering, sea kayaking, and sailing in New Zealand with the National Outdoor Leadership School.  Alex enrolled as a freshman at SCAD in the fall of 2008.  When he visited SCAD the previous spring, he said to his parents, "I can't believe it. Everyone here is like me. These are my people." 
He immediately fell in love with Savannah and SCAD, and made a beautiful life for himself there. He had a large, very close-knit circle of friends.

Tragically, in the early hours of Sunday, February 14, 2010, he was killed in a single car collision while returning to his dorm after a long night with his friends.

The friends and family of Alex Townsend, who miss Alex so very much, wish to create the A-Town Get Down as an annual event to perpetuate three significant legacies which Alex left for us: his passion for live music; his love for Savannah, Georgia; and his way of living among others on this earth that one might sum up with the simple imperative: "cre-ate, re-late."

The accident was alcohol-related.
Drink responsibly.
Don't drink and drive.

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