Open Country

 Filmmakers Glenda Drew and Jesse Drew in person to introduce the film and do a post show Q&A!

Show will be preceded by a live performance from musician Hannah Mayree

OPEN COUNTRY is a journey into the roots of American Country music. Although one wouldn’t realize it from listening to today’s pop Country-Western radio stations, country music has been anything but a rightwing soundtrack. To the contrary, the roots of Country and Western lie firmly in classic American traditions of resistance to capital and defense of the right of workers, poor farmers, and the dispossessed to live their lives in dignity and freedom. OPEN COUNTRY repositions country music into its rightful place as a people’s music. Featuring interviews with Billy Bragg, Mat Callahan, Hazel Dickens, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Jon Langford, Utah Phillips, Pete Seeger and many more.

This screening will benefit for the Black Banjo Reclamation Project