SileNT Films/Live Guitars

Tuesday, January 28, 2014
7:30 PM

Luther Dickinson + Alvin Youngblood Hart PREMIERE SCORES TO CLASSIC SILENT FILMS

Merkin Concert Hall
Kaufman Music Center 129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam)

(212) 501-3330

http://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/new-york-guitar-festival-silent-films-live-guitars2

Tickets: $25 (students $!5)

Formerly lead guitarist with The Black Crowes and current front-man for North Mississippi Allstars, Memphis-born Luther Dickinson deploys his aggressively Southern sensibility to Walter Ruttman ’s 1927 documentary portrait of a Berlin long gone by, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City. A painter and a chamber musician before becoming a filmmaker, Ruttman cast an impressionistic eye over a single day-into-night of life observed in the German capital.

Grammy-winning country-blues guitarist/singer Alvin Youngblood Hart applies his signature rootsy style to “Fatty” Arbuckle ’s 1918 spoof on westerns, Out West. Arbuckle co-stars with Buster Keaton against the backdrop of Mad Dog Gulch, “the toughest town in the movies.”