The SRLS continues to expand and to diversify its audience through live performances, documentation of past performances and recordings in both MP3 and CD formats, and the production of film and video projects. By presenting the work of artists who are representative of a wide variety of genres in the musical and motion-picture arts, the SRLS strives to appeal to the diverse range of tastes found within the Chattanooga community.

The performing element of the SRLS is Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner, who together form the Shaking Ray Levi duo. They have performed extensively from New York to London and have received critical acclaim from the Village Voice, Keyboard, National Public Radio, The New Art Examiner, Tower Records' Pulse! magazine and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The duo uses storytelling, electronics and percussion in addition to handmade instruments of their own design to achieve their distinctive sound. The Shaking Ray Levi Duo has performed extensively with their educational outreach program in many public schools and malls throughout the country. Additionally, they have performed on an international level on London's BBC Program Midnight Oil, at Quebec's International Festival Musique de Actuelle, Newfoundland's Sound Symposium, Denver's ReThink Conference and London's Company Week.

Their first CD appeared in 1993 on the distinguished Incus label of London. Also in 1995 they performed with Japan's renowned Butoh dancer Min Tanaka and Quebec's interactive video artist Don Ritter. In recognition of their abilities they have been awarded grants for their work by the British Arts Council and Meet the Composer. For more information about the SRL duo, click here.

Since 1986 the Shaking Ray Levi Society has hosted annual festivals such as Artstravaganza and Incus Week, various concert series and their spoken word performance art series, ALL TALK. In May 2001, the Society presented NPR correspondent David Greenberger (accompanied by the Shaking Ray Levis), Folkways recording artist Michael Hurley, and Frank Pahl's Scavenger Quartet at the 4 Bridges Arts Festival in Chattanooga, TN. In 2002, the Society handled music booking for Chattanooga's 4 Bridges Festival.

Some of the artists the Society has brought to Chattanooga include:

• Derek Bailey, pioneer in the movement of musical improvisation and one of the most influential guitarists in the United Kingdom.
• Laurie Anderson
• Anthony Braxton, whose innovations as a composer were acknowledged with a 1994 McArthur Foundation Fellowship.
• Reverend Howard Finster, world renowned folk artist and visionary, has collaborated with the Society and the Levis, both in performances and producing the "Fah-Sa-La-Cah-Lo" festivals at his Paradise Gardens, in Pennville, Georgia.
• Fred Frith, Tony Oxley, Shaking Ray Levi's, John Zorn, all collaborated for "Incus Week 95," in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• Borbetomagus
• David Greenberger
• Caroliner Rainbow
• Olivia Tremor Control
• David Pajo
• Quintron & Miss Pussycat
• Eugene Chadbourne
• JD Parran, New York multi-instrumentalist and educator at the Harlem school for the arts who has worked with such artists at Paul Simon, Lena Horn and Stevie Wonder.
• Steve Beresford, London's award-winning keyboardist and composer for the BBC as well as a number of film scores.
• Andrei Codrescu, NPR correspondent, feature writer and creator of the award-winning film "Road Scholar," who participated in the Society's "All Talk" series.
• Amy Denio, a multi-instrumentalist Grammy-nominee and founding member of the nationally recognized all-female musical ensemble The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet.
• Min Tanaka, renowned Japanese Butoh dancer
• L. Shankar, traditional Indian violinist famous for his work with John Mclaughlin. Shankar appeared with Caroline and master percussionist V. Vinayakram, in association with the Indian Association of Chattanooga.
• Leroy Jenkins, African American composer and Jazz violinist.
• Foday Mussa Suso, African Kora player and Griot (traditional storyteller), who has worked with such noted players as the Kronos Quartet, as well as Phillip Glass.
• Hassan Hakmoun, in association with Artstravaganza 1994. Hassan is a master trance musician in the mystic Islamic Gnawa tradition and has a new recording on Peter Gabriel's "Real World" label.
• Chris Cutler, a world-renowned innovator of electronic percussion who has contributed his talents to groups like Pere Ubu, The Residents, and Henry Cow, and collaborated on numerous occasions with Fred Frith.