The Life and Times of the
Red Dog Saloon
A special screening of the rock ‘n’ roll documentary including a conversation with filmmaker Mary Works and the musicians who were there
Friday, April 2, 2010 - 7:00 PM
Museum of Performance & Design
401 Van Ness Avenue, 4th Floor
"It's an amazing little piece of rock and roll history/ little known but with far reaching significance in overall story of 20th century America...a story that needed to be told."
-Audience comment, premiere screening
(SAN FRANCISCO) If the psychedelic sixties were born in the dancehalls of San Francisco, then they were conceived in a saloon in Virginia City, Nevada. The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon is the story of the Red Dog Saloon and the unique extended family that grew out of those wild times. It is told with intimate interviews, woven together with music, poster art, photographs, and rare archival footage. The Red Dog was the first of the dancehall venues, a place where the Wild West was enacted on a daily basis and a new kind of rock ‘n’ roll was being played.
The film focuses on the music, the art and the lifestyle that made the culture of the sixties possible. This documentary presents a missing piece of Nevada history and a uniquely American story. Principally photographed in Nevada at the 25-year reunion of the Red Dog Saloon, the film features footage of Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Great Society, The Wildflower, The Charlatans and other seminal bands of the era. The filmmaker is the daughter of one of the Saloon’s founders and was the only person entrusted with access to their lives and attics.
The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon will be screened Friday, April 2, at the Museum of Performance & Design as part of the current exhibition Somethin’s Happening Here: Bay Area Rock ‘n’ Roll 1963-1973. The exhibition is an unprecedented, in-depth examination of this incredibly diverse era and features many of the musicians in the film. The screening will include a conversation with the film’s director, Mary Works and musicians Peter Albin (Big Brother and the Holding Company), Stephen Ehret (The Wildflower) and Mike Wilhelm (The Charlatans). Admission is $20.00 general / $15.00 for MPD members. For reservations visit the Museum online at www.mpdsf.org, email tonyb@mpdsf.org or call (415) 255-4800 ext. #19.
CALENDAR LISTING
The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon
Friday, April 2, 2010 - 7:00 pm
Museum of Performance & Design, 401 Van Ness Avenue, Veterans Building, 4th floor
San Francisco
The documentary film The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon will be screened Friday, April 2 at the Museum of Performance & Design as part of the current exhibition Somethin’s Happening Here: Bay Area Rock ‘n’ Roll 1963-73. The Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada was the first of the dancehall venues, a place where the Wild West was enacted on a daily basis and a new kind of rock ‘n’ roll was being played. The evening includes a conversation with the film’s director, Mary Works, and musicians Peter Albin (Big Brother and the Holding Company), Stephen Ehret (The Wildflower) and Mike Wilhelm (The Charlatans). Admission is $20.00 general / $15.00 for MPD members. For reservations visit the Museum online at www.mpdsf.org, email tonyb@mpdsf.org or call (415) 255-4800 ext. #19.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM
The Museum of Performance & Design is the first museum in the country dedicated exclusively to the performing arts and theatrical design. The Museum’s mission is to educate people of all ages about the impact and value of the performing arts in their lives through exhibitions, programming, and research. In addition the Museum collects, preserves, and makes accessible performance and design materials that reflect our diverse culture.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Somethin’s Happening Here: Bay Area Rock ‘n’ Roll 1963-73
Now on view through August 28, 2010
Museum of Performance & Design, 401 Van Ness Avenue, Veterans Building, 4th floor – San Francisco
Wednesday-Saturday 12:00-5:00 pm
Free for MPD Members / $5.00 suggested donation for general public
Somethin’s Happening Here: Bay Area Rock ‘n’ Roll 1963-73 at the Museum of Performance & Design (MPD) charts the Bay Area rock scene from the folk-infused early ‘60s to the last days of the Fillmore West. The exhibition is an unprecedented, in-depth examination of this incredibly diverse era—dispelling its myths and offering a fresh look at this well-known subject—all evoked in a blaze of sight and sound with a wealth of original posters, images, instruments, and costumes on display.
ABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTS LIBRARY
The Collection, founded in 1947 by Russell Hartley, contains more than three million books, playbills, photographs, posters, sheet music, play scripts, audio and video recordings, artifacts, personal papers, the archives of the San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera and several other local organizations, and special collections on theatrical design, musical theater, and oral history. The Bob Johnson Sheet Music Collection contains 60,000 pieces of sheet music, from film, stage and more than twenty other categories including fairs, military, ethnic, jazz, and pop. For more information about the Collection, contact the Performing Arts Library at (415) 255-4800 *818 or visit http://www.mpdsf.org/
