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SUMMARY:Lawrence Music Alliance Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Music Alliance friends connect with festival goers in this informal happy hour before the 6:30pm screening of Janis Ian: Breaking Silence and performance by Kirsten Paludan + Friends! \nThe Happy Hour is free for all to attend. Cash bar will be available!
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/lawrence-music-alliance-happy-hour/
LOCATION:Lawrence Arts Center\, 940 New Hampshire St\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ideas,Music
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SUMMARY:Janis Ian: Breaking Silence - FILM + MUSIC
DESCRIPTION:At the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the mid-1960s\, teenage singer-songwriter Janis Ian’s hit song about an interracial relationship\, “Society’s Child\,” launched her illustrious career but also ignited controversy. Over the next six decades\, Ian jammed with Jimi Hendrix\, partied with Janis Joplin\, and played duets with Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson. But she also had to work to overcome the stigma of her debut\, homophobia\, record industry misogyny\, and a life-threatening illness to produce an indelible body of work that continues to draw large audiences around the globe. With access to Ian’s incredible body of music\, her vast archive\, family\, friends\, famed collaborators\, and music journalists\, this in-depth documentary balances the intimacy of a home movie against a sweeping historical and contemporary context. \nThis screening will be followed by a tribute concert led by Kirsten Paludan presented in partnership with the Lawrence Music Alliance. \nMusic Lineup: \n\nKirsten Paludan (band leader) vocals\, acoustic guitar\nKarin Paludan-Sorey (guest artist) vocals\nAud Whitson (guest artist) vocals\, guitar\nBenjamin Cartel (guest artist\, band) vocals\, guitar\, drums\nNate Holt (band) keys\, accordion\nJuliana Wamelink (band) backing vocals\, keyboard\n\nBraden Young (guitar\, bass\, backing vocals)\n\n\nMike Alexander – (lead guitar)\n\n\n\n\n\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nMusician/actress Kirsten Paludan has been performing in the regional music/theater scene for over 20 years. She currently fronts four bands and has been critically recognized for her ‘genre defying’ voice\, garnering three nominations from the Pitch Weekly for Best Female Vocalist. Paludan has sung with Sheryl Crow and Alejandro Escovedo\, among others\, and performs her own compositions\, country & western hits\, musical theater\, jazz\, and modern classics with equal aplomb and dedication. As a songwriter/composer\, she has released two full length albums and one EP and has helped score several films.
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/janis-ian/
LOCATION:Lawrence Arts Center\, 940 New Hampshire St\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Music
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SUMMARY:Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted - FILM + MUSIC
DESCRIPTION:FILM SCREENING\, Q&A + PERFORMANCE BY SWAMP DOGG \nABOUT THE FILM\nHidden away deep in the suburban San Fernando Valley\, legendary cult musician Swamp Dogg\, alongside housemates Moogstar and Guitar Shorty\, has transformed his home into an artistic playground. This documentary film follows the group as they navigate the tumultuous waves of the music industry\, and forge a wonderfully bizarre and inspiring path across time and space. \nPresented with support from the Eighth Street Taproom.  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\n“Not a lot of people talk about the true origins of bluegrass music\, but it came from Black people. The banjo\, the washtub\, all that stuff started with African Americans. We were playing it before it even had a name.” – Swamp Dogg \nBorn Jerry Williams\, Jr.\, Swamp Dogg first encountered bluegrass music on the radio growing up in Portsmouth\, VA\, in the 1940s. Though he would go on to spend much of the ’50’s and ’60s immersed in the world of soul\, funk\, and R&B—both as an artist and as a A&R man/producer working with the likes of Patti LaBelle\, The Commodores\, and The Drifters—roots music would remain an important fixture in his life. By that time\, Williams had already traded in his birth name for the Swamp Dogg moniker\, partly as an act of rebellion against the confining racial and commercial politics of the music industry\, and partly as an embrace of his natural inclination towards irreverence and eccentricity. Beginning with 1970’s Total Destruction To Your Mind\, Swamp Dogg would go on to release a string of more than two dozen albums ranging from the radically subversive to the downright ridiculous\, developing an underground following in the process that would make fans of everyone from DMX to John Prine. Critics and audiences alike would eventually come to see Swamp Dogg for the visionary he was. The New York Times praised his “salty\, earthy Southern-soul storytelling;” Rolling Stone hailed his catalog full of “classics that have influenced generations of younger musicians;” The Independent dubbed him a “psychedelic soul original;” The Fader declared him a “legend;” Pitchfork called him “one of pop’s great cult acts;” and Vice crowned him “the unsung king of soul music.” 
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/swamp-dogg/
LOCATION:Lawrence Arts Center\, 940 New Hampshire St\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Music
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SUMMARY:Split Lip Rayfield: Never Make It Home - FILM
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the Kaw River Roots Festival’s Split Lip Rayfield 30th Anniversary Celebration\, we are proud to present a screening of the documentary\, Split Lip Rayfield: Never Make it Home followed by a Q&A. \n4pm: Music by The Frightened Stag with Special Guests\n4:30pm: Film Screening\n6:00pm: Q&A with Director G.J. Echternkamp and band members Jeff Eaton\, Wayne Gottstine and Eric Mardis \nABOUT THE FILM\nKirk Rundstrom is the electric\, hell-raising singer/guitarist of the band Split Lip Rayfield\, and he’s been given two months to live. Set across America’s heartland\, this moving documentary captures the rowdy\, heart-wrenching\, and ultimately joyous performances of Kirk Rundstrom’s “Final Tour” where each show was played as it would be the last.
URL:https://freestatefestival.org/event/never-make-it-home/
LOCATION:Lawrence Arts Center\, 940 New Hampshire St\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Music
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