And the Roots of Rhythm Remain with Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd in person signing copies of his book, courtesy of Book Passage!

Co-Presented by Amoeba Music

Legendary producer, author and gifted raconteur Joe Boyd has created a unique event:
a narrated journey through the world’s music.

Based on his new book, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, he has assembled rarely-if-ever-seen clips showing Kate Bush with Bulgaria’s Trio Bulgarka, Taj Mahal with kora great Toumani Diabaté, Ravi Shankar with George Harrison, Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ivo Papasov, Django Reinhardt, Carmen Miranda, Dizzy Gillespie and many more. 

Boyd shows how personalities, events and politics in places such as Havana, Lagos, Budapest, Kingston and Rio were as colourful and momentous as anything that took place in New Orleans, Harlem, Laurel Canyon or Liverpool. And moreover, how jazz, rhythm & blues and rock’n’roll would never have happened if it weren’t for the melodies and rhythms emanating from over the horizon.

Joe Boyd is a record producer and writer, known for his memoir, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s. Artists he has produced include Nick Drake, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., Taj Mahal, Fairport Convention, Richard and Linda Thompson, Maria Muldaur, Kate and Anna McGarrigle and 10,000 Maniacs among many over the course of a nearly sixty-year career.