Shindig on the Green
Photos from Shindig on the Green at Pack Square Park Saturday, July 3.
Photo by Jonathan Welch
Day: July 3, 2010
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Happy Birthday Ken Russell
This was originally going to be a column about great opening scenes in movies, but the more I played with that idea the more I found myself thinking about the fact that any such list of mine was going to include at least four openings from Ken Russell pictures (I’ll save what those are for the column in question). And since today Ken Russell turns 83—making him longest-lived enfant terrible in the history of cinema—I’ve opted for this instead.
Busk Break: Herzog, Merchant and Schinasi cover “Hesitation Blues”
Informal busking groups are commonplace on the streets of downtown Asheville during the summer, and these short-lived bands can make for some very interesting, now-or-never listening experiences. Here’s the pickup group of Elie Herzog (vocals, bass), Eric Merchant (guitar, vocals) and Erica Schinasi (violin) performing the cross-genre standard “Hesitation Blues.”
