The Last Waltz

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The Last Waltz
Dominic & The Lucid

Sat, November 26, 2011
Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm

$8 advance / $10 day of show

Tickets

This event is all ages

Buy tickets in person at the Cumberland County Civic Center Box Office, charge by phone at 800-745-3000 and online at www.statetheatreportland.com The State Theatre Box Office will be open one hour before doors on night of show.

It started as a concert. It became a celebration. Join an unparalleled lineup of rock superstars as they celebrate The Band’s historic 1976 farewell performance. Directed by Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, Goodfellas), The Last Waltz is not only “the most beautiful rock film ever made” (New York Times) it’s “one of the most important cultural events of the last two decades” (Rolling Stone).

Scorsese’s 1978 capsule history of The Band is mixed with footage of the group’s allegedly last performance (certainly their last performance as a quintet) in this particularly stylish concert film. Scorsese shoots the players and their sundry guests with the same flair and enthusiasm one can see in the later The Color of Money or Goodfellas. He also proves a good interviewer with Band members, particularly Robbie Robertson. But the film’s real hook is the stage show, which features a rotation of rock legends including Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Paul Butterfield, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Eric Clapton and so on, playing with the Band before a wildly appreciative audience.

Rumor has it that at the debut screening of The Last Waltz in 1977, Ronnie Hawkins stood up at the end of the film and remarked sarcastically, “That was all right, but it sure could’ve used a few more shots of Robbie!” By now, any serious fan of the Band will be familiar with the antipathy between Robertson and some of his former comrades. But for better or worse, that is a key part of the story of the Band; and in retrospect, the Last Waltz is surely an even more accurate documentary than Robertson had aimed for. More importantly, it captures one of the greatest concerts of the rock era.

Immediately following the movie, Portland’s own The Lucid will play a set of live music featuring songs of the Band.

The Lucid combines Dominic Lavoie’s songwriting with the driving rhythm section of childhood bandmates Charles Gagne and Nate Cyr with Scott Mohler on guitar and keys. Moving from the French Canadian border towns of northern Maine and New Hampshire to Portland’s eclectic music scene in 2002, The Lucid fand have since been voted Best Pop-Rock Act of 2009 and Best Male Vocalist 2007 and 2011 in the Portland Phoenix Best Music Poll.

Their albums Waging the Wage and Season of The Sun were featured in the Portland Phoenix’s Top 20 Albums of 2006 and 2008 lists

WCLZ Presents:

Gillian Welch

Sun, November 27, 2011
Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm

$30 / Reserved seating

Tickets

This event is all ages

Buy tickets in person at the Cumberland County Civic Center Box Office, charge by phone at 800-745-3000 and online at www.statetheatreportland.com. The State Theatre Box Office will be open one hour before doors on night of show.

Gillian Welch

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Before we go any further, before we address anything, I’d like you to forget. Maybe forget what Gillian Welch shows you’ve seen, the floorboards all sparking from the weight of these two souls, Gill and Dave, and their four collective cowboy-booted soles; maybe forget when you first heard “Orphan Girl,” that song that seemed to exist outside of time and caused everyone who heard it to become the itinerant, the loner, the longing; maybe forget the years that have passed when last a new Gillian Welch record graced the hi-fi’s of the music-listening world – forget the pop stars risen and erased in those years, the administrations and regimes born and gone in those years – forget, indeed, that there are eight of them, eight years, since Soul Journey arrived into the world.

The Harrow & The Harvest, Gill and Dave’s new record, is both a product of and is unrelated to those years in-between. Best to forget that. What it is, indisputably, is the product of two people who have become so entwined in one another that the songs and the singing and the playing on this record seems to exude from a single voice. This is the sound of two people in a room, playing to one another, with one another. This is the sound of the room in which the two people are playing. This is the sound of two voices, locked in unison, locked in harmony. The sound of two people playing live, with no overdubs, and very few takes. Two people making music together as if they were one soul combined.

– Colin Meloy
Portland, Oregon
May 5, 2011

Venue Information:
State Theatre
Portland, ME
609 Congress St
http://www.statetheatreportland.com/

47 Harris Hill rd.
Poland, ME

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