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  Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill 2022

  Watched 02 Jul 2023

  See at the Free State Festival
  7/2/23 Lawrence KS

  A couple of nights after The Embarrassment documentary presentation, we close down the Free State Festival with another story of a real-life musician who should've been bigger, but wasn't -- at least, not during her lifetime. Judee Sill was part of the same scene that brought us Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne and The Eagles, but her records -- full of mystical-sexual lyrics that Sill said were given to her by God…

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  We Will Speak 2023

  Watched 01 Jul 2023

  Seen at the Free State Festival
  7/1/23 Lawrence KS

  Until just a few decades ago, the United States routinely took Native American children from their homes and put them in boarding schools to learn English and be more like white people. "Kill the Indian in him, and save the man," said Captain Richard Henry Pratt. The result? English came to mostly replace indigenous languages among the survivors. That may be changing among Cherokee people, thanks to young folks looking to…

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  32 Sounds 2022

  Watched 01 Jun 2023

  Review cross-posed from @joeldermole, friend of the Free State Festival.

  *******

  Seen at Cider Gallery in Lawrence, KS as part of the launch event for the Free State Festival June 26-July 2.

  Three thoughts about 32 SOUNDS:

  * This is immersive in a way that few movies are: Headphones are distributed to the audience beforehand so that you can experience the world of sound in precisely the fashion that the filmmakers intend. That means this movie isn't always or primarily…

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