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Prom; it's a time for $15 flowers, poorly-concealed flasks, and the realization that no amount of wet wipes can lift vanilla sheet-cake and Banker's Club whiskey from your lapel. The point is, prom is all about self-indulgence. So, as Athens, GA-based public relations firm Team Clermont puts on their 10th Annual Summer Festival and Blue Ribbon Ball-- complete with series-capping "Prom"-- you'll forgive them if they choose to celebrate themselves just a little bit.

Team Clermont artists (and a few non-Clermont stragglers) will don their best bib and tucker at a few Athens locales at the end of July. The likes of Deerhunter, Starlight Mints, Castanets, the Ladybug Transistor, Phosphorescent, Summer Hymns, Tin Cup Prophette, A Northern Chorus, and Benjy Ferree are among those chipping in for the limo.

Permissive chaperon Calvin Johnson will also perform at a kickball tournament July 28, which is appropriately bizarre, I suppose. All this culminates in the Blue Ribbon Ball, sponsored by beer-like-substance Pabst Blue Ribbon, featuring the glamorous Bobby Conn playing a mix of covers and his own hits.

Off like a prom dress:

07-25 40 Watt Club - Starlight Mints, the Ladybug Transistor, Tin Cup Prophette
07-26 Caledonia Lounge - Deerhunter, Bottom of the Hudson, Ham1, King of Prussia
07-27 Caledonia Lounge (Happy Hour) - Summer Hymns
07-27 40 Watt Club - Cinemechanica, Castanets, Phosphorescent, A Northern Chorus, Arizona
07-28 East Athens Community Park (kickball tournament) - Calvin Johnson
07-28 The Go! Bar (Happy Hour) - Benjy Ferree, Abra Moore
07-28 40 Watt Club (Blue Ribbon Ball) - Bobby Conn, DJ Twin Powers