Old Time Music Festival, West plains

Marideth Sisco and the Davis Creek Rounders will perform at the Old Time Music Festival in West Plains Missouri on Friday June 18 at 2 p.m. That scheduled time might be kinda loose … there are a lot of other great performers to present also so bring your lawn chair and a tall glass of iced tea.

A long time favorite in the West Plains area, here I am (left) performing with Mosa at the Yellow House.

Later in the evening Blackberry Winter, the Winter’s Bone group will perform around 6 p.m. This from the Old Time Music Festival website; “Several musicians featured in either the film or the soundtrack recording (or both) will perform at the festival, prior to Farrar’s performance.  They include singer Marideth Sisco and guitarist Dennis Crider, both of West Plains; banjoist Van Colbert, Willow Springs; multi-instrumentalist Bo Brown, Springfield; fiddler Billy Ward and bassist Tedi May.  Sisco, Crider and Colbert all are well-known to Old-Time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival audiences.  Sisco and Crider are members of the Davis Creek Rounders based in West Plains.  Colbert is a member of the Colbert Brothers of Willow Springs.  All three participate in musical events in the area.


Bo Brown, who sings and plays mandolin, guitar, dobro and bass, has been involved in various Springfield-area bands since the 1970s.  He was a member of the Undergrass Boys which toured extensively in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  He is now a member of two groups, the Lowdown Fancy and the Hillcats.  Billy Ward and Tedi May are members of Dirt Road Delight, a band that contributed to the film’s soundtrack.  Both are natives of Taney County but are now based in Georgia.  Ward has won several national-scale contests in both fiddling and guitar flatpicking in recent years.  May reportedly was the first woman to graduate with honors from the Atlanta Music Institute with a degree in bass.  She has recorded and performed extensively with several bands.”

The Davis Creek Rounders; L to R,Ken Wagoner, Linda Stofful, Rick Cochran, me (Marideth Sisco), Van Colbert, Dennis Crider.

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Finishing up The “Winter’s Bone Soundtrack” Photo

Four a.m. and the Winter's Bone soundtrack crew is finishing up! Were we ever tired, and happy! Back row L to R; Kim Lansford (guitarist), Jim Lansford (mandolin), Billy Ward (fiddle). Front row L to R; Sheryl Lee (who played April), D.J. Shumateon (banjo), Dennis Crider (guitarist), Ann Rosellini (producer/screenwriter), director Debra Granik, me (Marideth Sisco), D.J.'s mama (Mrs. Shumate). March 19-2009

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See Who Likes Winter’s Bone, reviews

There’s no shortage of great reviews of Winter’s Bone! Here is a list of to get you started!

Los Angeles Times
Entertainment Weekly
New York Times
Rope Of Silicon
Village Voice
Washington Examiner
NPR
Huffington Post
KY3
Monterey Herald
New York Timeout
Boston
Tonight At The Movies
NBC New York

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Successful Film Festival in New York … Yea!

I just spoke with Marideth a couple hours ago as she was headed back into West Plains from her adventures at the New York Film Festival. Her direct quote …

“Every major newspaper in the US is talking about Winter’s Bone and saying it is one of the all time best movies.”


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Check out the Tribecafilm interview of Winter’s Bone

http://www.tribecafilm.com/news-features/features/The_Winter_of_Her_Discontent_Winters_Bone.html

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Another Day at the Little Rock Film Festival

Saturday’s another day, in which some possible high points include “Happythankyoumoreplease” and “Five Star Day.” Or I may start earlier and pop over to the Clinton School for a showing of “Citizen Architect.”

And maybe I’ll have enough sense to either stay in for breakfast at the hotel (whose chef studied with Emeril), or go out earlier, so I don’t roast, like I did Friday, on the way back from the River Market, where the food court featured offerings from basic barbecue to falafel, with Cajun, Mexican and several others in between, and flanked on each end by coffee roasteries and bakeries. I had the falafel, coffee and a cinnamon roll. For breakfast.


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A Marathon Day, Little Rock Film Festival

I’m sitting in my larger-than-life room at the Capital Hotel near midnight Friday, winding down from a marathon film-watching day at the Little Rock Film Festival. Actually, most things about this festival are a little larger than life. All you have to do is look at a list of the sponsors, which you can find here. <http://www.littlerockfilmfestival.org/get-invoved/sponsors/&gt;, to find out what their budget might look like.

For instance, a local luxury car dealership has made available a fleet of cars, at least one a Lexus and another a Cadillac hatchback (try saying those two words together for a laugh) just to tote around the filmmakers from hotels to the theater multiplex and on to area parties. But the film schedule and offerings are sweet.

Best thing seen today (Friday) was a surprise: a little film called “Homewrecker.” Absolutely delicious performances by Anslem Richardson and Ana Reeder.   By contrast, the premiere of “Arcadia Lost,” billed as one of those to beat in the competition, left this viewer somewhat confounded by its disconnectedness. If it was magical realism, then its mystical scenes seemed heavyhanded and shallow, if not silly. And if it wasn’t, then how did these kids spend so many days in the Greek summer countryside without 1)eating or drinking, or 2) working up a spectacular sunburn. Just sayin…


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