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2012 Alabama Cigar Box Guitar Festival Dates Set
The 8th Annual Alabama Cigar Box Guitar Festival (now renamed "The Flying Monkey Arts Cigar Box Guitar Festival") will take place on Friday, June 1st and Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 in Huntsville, Alabama. This is the event at which most of my documentary, "Songs Inside The Box" was shot several years ago. The event attracts cigar box guitar enthusiasts from across the eastern U. S. and is a fun outing for anyone interested in these unique instruments. Times and performers have not been [...]
UA Documentaries to Screen in Paris
Two documentaries produced by the University of Alabama will be screened in Paris, France during October, 2011. The documentaries, originally made for broadcast in Alabama, have both had an impact well beyond the boundaries of the state. "Richard Johnston: Hill Country Troubadour" will screen as a part of the Raw Sounds Movie Club on October 17th at Le Fanfaron (6 rue de la Main d'Or). The film, which won the Best Alabama Film Award at the 2007 George Lindsey UNA Film Festival, tells the [...]
"Songs Inside The Box" to Screen at Prometheus Film Festival
"Songs Inside The Box," the cigar box guitar documentary has been selected for screening at the Prometheus Film Festival of York, Pennsylvania. The festival will take place in the York Little Theatre on August 19th and 20th, one week before York will host the annual Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Festival. I'm very proud to have the film screening in York because it is the home of Shane Speal, the self-proclaimed King of the Cigar Box Guitar and central figure of "Songs Inside the Box." [...]
"Richard Johnston: Hill Country Troubadour" to Screen June 4th, 2011 at Alabama Cigar Box Guitar Festival
"Richard Johnston: Hill Country Troubadour,” the award-winning documentary by Center for Public Television & Radio producer/director Max Shores, will be shown at the 7th Annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival in Huntsville, Alabama at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 4th. Shores will be in attendance and will answer questions after the screening. Presentation of this University of Alabama documentary is just a part of the two-day festival which will begin on Friday, June 3rd at 6:00 p.m. with a [...]