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Big Smith concert
Sunday, Feb. 26 8:30pm Missouri Theatre | After the screening of Homemade Hillbilly Jam, Big Smith will play its neo-hillbilly roots music live from the beautiful Missouri Theatre stage. |
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Filmmaker Fete
Saturday, Feb. 25 5pm Sycamore Restaurant | Columbia's chance to rub elbows with our visiting directors, producers and stars, all at one of our favorite downtown restaurants. Sycamore becomes the newest home for this fantastic foray into fine food as chef Mike Odette serves up tasty tapas complemented by Beringer Wine, New Belgium ales and Skyy Vodka. There's no better opportunity to eat great food and get one-on-one conversation with some of the best minds in independent film today. |
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Gimme Truth!
Saturday, Feb. 25 6:30pm Blue Note | The first ever True/False gameshow! Contestants (pulled from the ranks of our visiting filmmakers) vie with one another to determine whether locally produced shorts are True or False. Hosted by Doppler Dave Schmidt. |
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Intercontinental Audio Breakfast
Saturday, Feb. 25 10am Ragtag Cinema | A radio potluck of the most innovative audio work in the world, presented by Chicago's Third Coast International Audio Festival. In person: festival staff members Johanna Zorn, Julie Shapiro and Roman Mars. |
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Kickoff Concert @ Cherry St. Artisan
Thursday, Feb. 23 8pm Cherry St. Artisan | Four bands, each with a wholly unique style and sound. Locals Ellie Come Home play lushly orchestrated pop songs built around their string section. The Dandelion Junk Queens are traveling hoboes and buskers from around the way. Jerusalem & the Starbaskets sound like werewolves channeling Donovan. And, finally, Baby Dee is a transsexual tricycle-riding harpist from New York City. Top that, eh? |
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Reality Bites
Friday, Feb. 24 6pm Missouri Theatre | Four restaurants (Main Squeeze, Village Wine & Cheese, Root Cellar, and Classy's) offer up delectable appetizers, which can be chased down New Belgium Brewing's beer and Glazer's Midwest's wines, all gratis to passholders before the opening night film. |
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Reel Gone Round-up
Sunday, Feb. 26 12:30pm Bullpen Cinema | The return of our cinematic field trip to the Bull Pen Cinema, complete with rowdy, musical buses, an art auction, a down-home lunch and a screening of Mark Lewis's Standard of Perfection: Show Cattle, the absurd Best in Show of cows. In person: Mark Lewis. |
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Refugee All Stars and Of Montreal concert
Saturday, Feb. 25 9:30pm Blue Note | Two big bands clash on stage. One, from Athens, Georgia, plays sunny psych pop that pushes 60's revivalism into the 21st century. The other, from Sierra Leone, moves fluidly from Afropop to reggae to goombay to hip hop. It's safe to say that they've never shared a stage before, but who knows what this night might create? Psychedelic Afrobeat could only be a good thing, right? And don't forget to catch the Refugee All Stars film earlier on Saturday. |
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Rise Up!
Friday, Feb. 24 10pm Uprise Bakery | Columbia's best party of the year turns three and we up the stakes. Two full bars, three party areas, video projections from Ryan Wylie and Paul Baker, film loops from Don Thalhuber and music and video performances from Jon Sheffield, Mark Speckman and Girltalk. Plus DJ George Washington to make you dance so hard it hurts. Free with all passes. $10 with opening night ticket stub. |
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The Underworld Cinema of J.X. Williams
Sunday, Feb. 26 5pm Ragtag Cinema | A guided tour through the myth of this reclusive cantankerous filmmaker whose alleged ties to organized crime, the occult and the Communist party are the stuff of legend. |
Cave: Columbia's psychedelic/Kraut rock hippie collective.
Celandine: country rock from the heart of the country.
Curtis Eller: old-school vaudevillian from NYC who packs a banjo, stomping feet, and a spirited yodel. [music]
Dandelion Junk Queens: ramshackle buskers from Bellingham, Washington. [music]
Ellie Come Home: classical and pop with harmonies and soaring melodies, as played by strings and piano. [music]
Flowers: stripped-down pop/folk songs mixing half woe and half joy.
Girl Talk: Greg Gillis of Pittsburgh, PA, makes mash-ups of mash-ups and occasionally recruits choreographed dancers. [music]
Howard Marshall & Friends: legendary Missouri fiddler/historian tears it up with his "Little Dixie Style." [music]
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets: sonic love songs to sing on the bus with Nico as the tour guide. [music]
Leah Quinelle All Stars Featuring Happy: lucky gals now in the midst of their "Forever Tour." [music]
Peter Stampfel: the New York-based godfather of acid-folk, Peter accompanies Bound to Lose (17) about his legendary band the Holy Modal Rounders, which in 1964 created a new, twisted kind of music. [interview]
Spot: former knob twiddler to Black Flag and The Minutemen and Husker Du, this Austin-based enigma now plays an acoustic guitar. [site]
Strawfoot: old-time revival and spirited dirge-country band from St. Louis make fire and brimstone sound sweet. [homepage]