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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2014
- POSITIVELY PORCO is the definitive documentary film being made about New York City's first Folk Music cabaret, GERDE'S FOLK CITY.
Filmed to enlighten even the most staunch Folk Revival enthusiast and historian, POSITIVELY PORCO is the story of Mike Porco and the club a thousand musicians called HOME.
MIKE PORCO was instrumental in, literally, setting the stage for the music revolution of the '60's.
During Mike Porco's stewardship (1960-1980) the club hosted early performances by a constellation of Folk, Roots and Blues music stars. Many American radio standards and Civil rights anthems were ofttimes heard by the public at Gerde's Folk City for the first time.
Folk City's distinctive fraternity of aspiring young artists and legendary recording stars borders on myth.
They were all teenagers and 20-somethings when they got there, and decades later, they're still doing 'what they do'.... that is-
PLAY MUSIC.
But not just any kind of music.
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Mike Porco's legendary claim to fame was that he co-signed 19 year old Bob Dylan's first cabaret card as his legal guardian. In her memoir, A Freewheelin' Time, former Bob Dylan girlfriend Suze Rotolo said that Gerde's was where "the cross-fertilization of different styles and musical eras forged important links in the chain of American musical history." For certain, such a collection of personalities crossing paths under one roof shall never happen again.
Bob Porco, Mike's grandson, undertakes an ardent personal odyssey, seeking out and sitting down with those living treasures that launched a global music paradigm shift from a street corner in Greenwich Village.
It's an inspiring tale of an Italian immigrant- and the musicians around him- who answered their calling to be a part of the 1960's Folk and Blues Revival together.
The stars themselves tell the astounding history of Gerde's and Positively Mike Porco.
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Watch it twice. Be astounded twice!
Rated E for Every human being on Earth.
If you loved Inside Llewyn Davis, you'll love POSITIVELY PORCO.
If you didn't love Inside Llewyn Davis, you'll REALLY love POSITIVELY PORCO.
(File under: NON FICTION)
Don't 'like' it of Facebook. L-O-V-E IT!!!!
POSITIVELY PORCO is on Facebook:
positivelypo...
POSITIVELY PORCO can be found on TH-cam:
/ folkcity50
Details and history on GERDE'S FOLK CITY can be found at:
www.FolkCityatFifty.blogspot.com
More info on Gerde's Folk City:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerde%27...
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Copyright FRIENDS OF MIKE PORCO, LLC
Bob Porco- Writer, Producer, Camera
Sarah-Rose Meredith- Film Editor
Jonathan Levin- Camera
David Peller- Special Assistant
Cliff Fagin- Consultant - เพลง
WELL DONE, Bob! Wow! I am impressed and can't wait to see this in its entirety! Congratz on this beautiful Tribute & Labor of Love!
Beautiful story very well-documented visually and verbally. This is the kind of story we need now in the midst of all the term well going on in the world. To music or nationalities can come together and feel good. What's that music hits you you feel no pain. Thank you for this feel-good story, in this time of summer sadness.
can't wait to see this movie. looks like it will open a floodgate of memories for those of us who were lucky enough to be around back then.
Wow yeah! Played a bunch of times at Folk City... can't wait to see the film!!!
Hey Bob, well done ! Can't wait to see it !
Hi Bob, wonderful trailer!!! I can't wait to see the full story. What a compelling story. All the best with this project.
looking forward to see it!
I look forward to watching this movie. I tell your uncle Angelo all the time.... Best of luck
This looks like a great film, at least for Gerdies fans like me. I heard a lot of wonderful folk music and blues thanks to your dad. Only complaint I ever heard was from the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem one of which said they stopped playing there because the sound system was so poor. The club was so small you really didn't need a sound system. Many happy memories.
This is a MUST Bob. Best wishes. I'm gonna send my son Finlay (from the UK) to see you at The Gaslight. What's on evening of 22 Feb?
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Is it still in process or is it done. You should come visit callicoon and look through some of Jack's memorabelia if not. That Folk City baseball team shot, I took. I have a few others of folks in the team shirt... Good timing for a show on folk and the village.
#FolkCity 's distinctive fraternity of aspiring young artists and legendary recording stars borders on myth
THANK YOU all…it should be said that it's still under construction. Due out early 2015
it's 4/7/19 now
how many trailers have we seen-then.....nothing?
who has distribution rights?
Mike Porco 100th Birthday Concert
townecc.tunestub.com/event.cfm?id=178288#fbShareLinkTag
PLEASE HELP FUND THIS FILM TO COMPLETION AND BRING IT AROUND THE WORLD
www.rockethub.com/projects/52440-positively-porco-feature-film-about-nyc-s-first-folk-music-cabaret
INDIEGOGO crowd funding campaign
www.indiegogo.com/projects/positively-porco/x/7952099
www.indiegogo.com/projects/positively-porco/x/7952099
memorabilia** - sorry.