Beth Harrington, an old friend of ours, has made a fabulous documentary called “The Winding Stream“, about the Carter-Cash family and the roots of country music. We saw it this summer at the Woods Hole Film Festival where it won the “best feature documentary” award and it’s been winning awards at festivals all around the country ever since.
It tells the story of the birth of recorded country music and features interviews with many of the surviving Carter/Cash family, including Johnny Cash just a few months before he died.
Beth is now in the process of raising the money to clear all the music rights so the film can be released theatrically and on TV. That’s no small job and will cost a lot since the film is full of music.
The Newton Nomadic Theater is toying with the idea of doing a benefit screening of the film here in Newton with all the proceeds to go to the Winding Stream project. Beth will be visiting from Oregon next month and she’d be happy to do a “Q/A With the Director” after the screening.
So I’m here on Village 14 to do some slapdash marketing research. Before deciding on whether to go ahead with this, we’re trying to get some idea of the potential size of the audience and how big a space we might need for the screening.
* Would you be interested in this screening? Would you come to the screening if you could?
* Would you pay $10 Might you pay $20?
* Should we do it?
You can either comment below or email to [email protected]
BTW – Beth is also a great musician herself. Long ago, when she lived here in Boston, she was a Modern Lover – as in Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. She was disappointed to hear that the recent effort to make “Roadrunner” the official state rock song of Massachusetts came up short.
If I’m available at the time, I’d definitely want to go and while I’d prefer $10, I’d pay $20 if that was the fee.
Love to hear this!! I’ve always said “a diverse music scene makes for a stronger and smarter community.”
I’ll attend.
me too
I would definitely be interested in attending and would pay $20 for a benefit.
We have a country music fan in the house, so we’d attend if we’re available.
Between the emails I’ve been getting and the comments, it sounds like we’ll be able to round up an avid audience for this. I guess its time to to find a suitable venue.
I would go. This is real country music, not what you hear on so-called country music stations.
Talk to David Bramante about bringing it to the West Newton Cinema for the full movie theater experience. He has screened movies for fundraisers in the past.
West Newton Cinema would be great…but don’t be afraid to think big Jerry. How about Conte Forum?
The details are not finalized yet but it does look like we’re going ahead with this. Beth Harrington’s will be in town and she’s pleased at the prospect. More details soon.
Thanks to all those who sent emails and commented above. Who knew Newton has such avid country music fans.
Great news! NewTV is going to co-sponsor the benefit screening of the Winding Stream and we’ll be doing it in the beautiful new NewTV screening room with the overflow audience in the studio.
It will be on Monday March 31 at 7:30. Get on the Newton Nomadic Theater’s email list and we’ll let you know as soon as tickets are on sale … and while you’re at it, purchase some tickets for our great new production, “Turn of the Screw” which opens this Friday at Gregorian Rugs in Lower Falls.
Since we’ve just announced that we’ll be screening the “Winding Stream” and since Valentines’s day is around the corner, I figured I should post this
Definitely. I would pay to see it.