Outsider Music Festival Thingy

I've got this idea to do an event featuring Outsider Musicians from across the country. For those unfamiliar, Outsider music is, like it's cousin in the art world(Outsider Art) music that is made by the untrained, unrestrained and sometimes untalented with a strong desire to create music of some kind. This is often done as a labor of love with no intentions of ever being heard by the outside world. For these reasons and others, this music is often better than and almost always more "interesting" than it's parrallel in mainstream music. These artists can, often despite their own limitations and/or mental illnesses, achieve various levels of success, sometimes being able to make a living off the fruits of their labor.

You may already be familiar with some fairly well-known outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis, Hasil Adkins, Mr. Quintron and Ms. Pussycat, R. Stevie Moore, and The Shaggs. But the list doesn't end there, in fact part of the beauty of this type of music is that there seems to be an almost bottomless well, or pit depending on your taste of material. If you are interested in the subject you could do much worse than to find the book "Songs in the Key of Z: The curious Universe of Outsider Music" with it's accompanying CD by Irwin Chusid. Mr. Chusid is also a long-time member of the staff of dj's at WFMU of New Jersey, which in my opinion is the best radio station of all time. Here are links to the book, the cd, and the radio station on-line:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006NSX1/qid=1112042135/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-8146106-3456921?v=glance&s=music

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1556523726/ref=pd_ecs_b_m_a/102-8146106-3456921?v=glance&s=books&n=

http://www.wfmu.org/

I'm about to start figuring out who I can get to give me money to put this thing together. More on this, Outsider Art, and more than my fingers can stand to type later...