Plus a post-screening Q&A and jams with director Kevin Barker!
Friday, February 26, 2010 . 8PM
Just Added! Friday, February 26, 2010 . 10PM
92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013
Three San Francisco-based musical acts – Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and Vetiver – tour the country performing their genre-defining music in the summer of 2004. They help each other overcome family tragedies and car accidents, and meet colorful characters, forgotten musical heroes, and folk luminaries as they travel across the country.
The film is an intimate portrait of life on the road for these young musicians early in their careers, playing tiny, obscure clubs and art galleries, but on the verge of larger success where small vans are replaced by large, impersonal tour buses. Here music is a creative, organic, inclusive endeavor. They not only sing about - they create - the world in which they want to live.
Kevin Barker juggles careers as a musician and filmmaker. In January 2010, he released You & Me, his debut solo album featuring an unbelievable team of musicians. He has recorded, toured, and collaborated with Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, Antony and the Johnsons, and Espers, to name just a few.
When he was a student at Columbia University's film school, he shot the footage that would later become The Family Jams.
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