Canaque Music in association with Musicpass Jamaica will host this years staging og the Jamaica Music & Art Fair on the beaches of Jamnesia Surf Club, in Bull Bay Jamaica.

The Three Day event, will be used to showcase upcoming musicians and artists from around Jamaica and to provide them with an outlet to exhibit and their work.

We would love to include the premier of this movie as a part of our three day schedule

we will absorb all related expene pertaining to the local staging of this event. and will also like to extend airline and accomodation for two available members off your cast and crew.

Please provide us with details on how to acquire the DVDs for sale during the staging off this event.

Regards,
Don Richards

Canaque Music

The Lone Star Film Society is bringing Andrew Shapter and his film Before the Music Dies to his native Fort Worth for the first time.

The Lone Star Film Society (LSFS) will kick off the annual Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards Festival with the screening of Before the Music Dies on June 17, 2009 at the Four Day Weekend Theater, in Sundance Square, formerly the Caravan of Dreams. The Music Awards Festival is Sunday, June 28^th with 6 venues and more than 36 nominated bands performing – all for FREE! Participating clubs this year include 8.0, The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium, Paddy Red’s, Bent Lounge, Embargo and The Scat Jazz Club. Winners will be announced in the July 15^th issue. Pick up a Weekly or log on to www.fwweekly.com for more information and to cast your vote.

Alec Jhangiani, LSFS’s director of programming, commented: “It’s a great privilege to promote Shapter’s work, which complements Lone Star Film Society’s mission to promote independent artists, both in film and music.”

“With such a large independent music scene in Fort Worth and the surrounding areas, especially Denton, we feel that this is the perfect film to kick off the Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards, which is a great celebration of independent music.”

Along with the screening, the LSFS is bringing the documentary to life with a live performance by the acclaimed jazz musician, Ephraim Owens, who is showcased in the movie. Before the Music Dies features the 36-year-old Dallas native along with other artists like Billy Preston, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Dave Matthews Band and Erykah Badu. As an added bonus Red Young, the 2008 Hall of Fame Fort Worth Weekly Winner and Adonis Rose, the Best Jazz Artist Fort Worth Weekly winner for 2007’ & 2008’ will be sitting in and playing before and after Ephraim Owens’ performance.

“With the screening of Before the Music Dies the Lone Star Film Society hopes to show the companionship of independent artists and celebrate the spirit of creative dimensions such as music and movies”, Jhangiani said.

“We also hope to give yet another example of why Fort Worth is such a dynamic and cutting-edge city for all of the arts, including music and film.”

Released in 2006, Before the Music Dies is a documentary directed by Shapter and produced and edited by Joel Rasmussen. With outstanding performances and revealing interviews Before the Music Dies takes a critical look at the homogenization of popular music with commentary by some of the industry’s biggest talents like Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Erykah Badu, Branford Marsalis, Bonnie Raitt and more. Using historic footage the film looks at the evolution of American music and the artists who created it and pulls back the curtain (in a very creative way) to expose the sad truth behind today’s “artificial” music stars. “The reality is that superficiality is in,” says Marsalis. “And depth and quality is kind of out.” Inspired by the death of his brother, director Andrew Shapter and his crew traveled thousands of miles, visiting dozens of cities, speaking with hundreds of fans, journalists, record executives and musicians while searching for “real” American music. What they found were mega-talents without a major label, including one artist Eric Clapton believes is “the real thing.”

Shapter’s follow-up film Happiness Is is an exploration of the meaning of “the pursuit of happiness” in America. The documentary features people from various aspects of life and work—from the Dalai Lama to Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and people on the street. (Excerpted from IMDB.com.)

Tickets are now available online at www.lonestarfilmsociety.com.

Advance tickets are $20 for Lone Star Film Society members and $25 for non-members. At the door tickets are $25 for members and $30 for non-members.

Doors open at 6 pm, the screening starts at 7 pm.

Four Day Weekend (Between the Norris Conference Center and Reata Restaurant)

312 Houston St

Fort Worth, TX 76102

About The Lone Star Film Society
The Lone Star Film Society exists to preserve and present the art of the moving image and examine its influence on world culture. LSFS, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, achieves these goals and engenders visual literacy by cultivating an appreciation of the visual arts, supporting film initiatives in the community and building the recognition and status of Fort Worth, and of Texas in filmmaking. The Lone Star Film Society is host of the Lone Star International Film Festival, Fort Worth in Sundance Square. The festival highlights the very best in independent filmmaking from around the world. The festival has honored such filmmakers as Martin Sheen, T-Bone Burnett, Bill Paxton, Sidney Lumet, Melonie Diaz and Fred Durst. This year’s festival will be held November 11 – 15, 2009. Visit us on line at www.lsiff.com.
About Fort Worth Weekly
The Weekly provides a vibrant alternative to the city’s daily newspaper, with award-winning and irreverent reporters who keep readers well informed and the powers-that-be worried. The Weekly’s editorial staff may have more decorations per capita than any newsroom in the country: two Pulitzer Prizes and the George Polk Award for courageous reporting, plus numerous awards from the Houston and Dallas press clubs, the State Bar, National Women’s Political Caucus, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and Investigative Reporters and Editors. Pick up the Weekly every Wednesday and log on to www.fwweekly.com for more information on events.

About Four Day Weekend
Four Day Weekend is the longest running live show in Ft. Worth history.  More than 400,000 people have seen Four Day Weekend in our beautiful 212-seat theater and we travel across the country performing more than 300 dates a year.Four Day Weekend is the longest running live show in Ft. Worth history.  More than 400,000 people have seen Four Day Weekend in our beautiful 212-seat theater and we travel across the country performing more than 300 dates a year.Four Day Weekend, represented by UTA in Beverly Hills and Managed by Generate in Santa Monica, recently sold their television pilot to The Fox Network.  The show is tentatively titled “The Bermuda Star” and is currently in development.

Four Day Weekend is the longest running live show in Ft. Worth history.  More than 400,000 people have seen Four Day Weekend in our beautiful 212-seat theater and we travel across the country performing more than 300 dates a year.Four Day Weekend, represented by UTA in Beverly Hills and Managed by Generate in Santa Monica, recently sold their television pilot to The Fox Network.  The show is tentatively titled “The Bermuda Star” and is currently in development.Visit our website at www.fourdayweekend.com or call 817-226-4DAY for information and tickets.