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BIG SCREEN, BIG SOUND ...surrounded by people who love music just as much as you do

The Music Fan Series was launched during the July 4th weekend of 2014 when John Wackman helped organize the Music Invasion Weekend. The program consisted of A Hard Day’s Night, Stop Making Sense, The Last Waltz, and Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me. To complement the event, the Rosendale lobby hosted an art exhibition titled: “50 Years of Classic LP Covers,” drawn from the collections of fans across the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Since then, a committee of music and film lovers has been curating the Music Fan Series at Rosendale Theatre, programming more than 75 films for appreciative audiences. We are widening that mission to include live concerts.

UPCOMING

Music Fan Series Presents: LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING

Tue, Apr 11 at
7:00 pm

Music Fan Series Presents: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS?

Wed, Apr 19 at
7:00 pm

We are always looking to bring new talent on board!

If you have music or film industry connections, or are just an obsessive lover of music, please join our band! Use our volunteer form and let us know what you’d like to do.

Join the Discussion on Facebook!

This group invites you to post film discussions, movie suggestions, announcements of upcoming events, and any topic related to music and film.

The Music Fan Series is a subcommittee of Rosendale Theatre Programming.
These dedicated music lovers work hard to keep the beat going.
They market and plan screenings and concerts for all to enjoy. Join the party!

ABOUT our Co-Producers:

Joyce Sprafkin is our booker. As a retired professor and clinical psychologist at Stony Brook Medical School, she uses her research, administrative, and clinical skills to search far and wide to find the distributors that can deliver the films that the committee chooses. Joyce attended Beatles’ concerts at both Forest Hills Tennis Stadium and at Shea Stadium!

Jay Kahn   His career has been involved in marketing and sales within the pro sound, consumer electronics and music industries in the New York and national markets. He enjoys most music genres and has played drums in a band in the famed Greenwich Village of the 1960s.

Ted Folke: The  primary goal of Ted’s professional life has been the promotion of international understanding and capacity building through  film and video production, and the high light of his professional career was serving as Chief, Video Unit with MONUSCO, the UN Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo , from 2007-2012. (For all Ted’s work in the DRC, please see http:://YouTube.com/MONUCVIDEO.) In 2014, Ted returned to teach Film and Media Studies at SUNY/FIT, and completed work on a doctoral dissertation titled DOCUMENTARY IN THE AGE OF NEW MEDIA:THREE CASE STUDIES for The Department of Film Studies of Sweden’s University of Lund.

Jay Blotcher: The High Falls-based veteran writer and publicist helps promote MFS screenings. His manic love of music is genetic; his grandfather Harry Paul was a longtime publicist for the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals. From 1986 through 2014, Blotcher was a music journalist, reviewing concerts and interviewing artists for New York City and Hudson Valley media. Blotcher obsessively maintains a list of all 450-plus concerts he has attended since 1976.   

Fatima Deen loves music of all kinds. She has been a contributing member of the Music Fan Series since the original 2014 Music Invasion Weekend.    

Mike Jurkovic’s poetry, prose and music reviews have been published globally but with little reportable income. Full-length collections include AmericanMental, (Luchador Press 2020) Blue Fan Whirring, (Nirala Press, 2018); President, Calling All Poets, now in its 22nd year, Beacon, New Paltz, Poughkeepsie. A 2016 Pushcart nominee, his CD reviews appear online at All About Jazz and Lightwood. New Jazz Excursions can be heard on alternating Saturdays 10am-12pm on WIOX 91.3FM, Roxbury, NY. He hopes to again host his Tuesday night Jazz Sanctuary, 7-10pm WOOC 105.3 FM, Troy, NY. He loves Emily most of all.

Rob Norris is best known as the bassist for The Bongos–the founding fathers of the ’80’s Hoboken indie-music scene. He also plays with Blue Paradox, East Of Venus, Tulula!, Living With Elephants, and OmU (who twice toured in Cuba). Over the years Rob has played with Donovan, Damo Suzuki (Can), The B-52’s, Garth Hudson (Band), Steve Holley (Wings), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), David Johansen (NY Dolls), Marshall Crenshaw and Moby–as well as members of R.E.M., The Feelies, Yo La Tengo, Throbbing Gristle, Television, Osibisa and The Velvet Underground. He has played in hundreds of venues from San Francisco to New York to London to Berlin and appears on dozens of recordings. Rob’s solo CD “Morning Becomes Electric” is available at all online digital outlets. He has also been a holistic healer for over twenty-five years, with a private practice in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Laurie Giardino: She’s been with the Collective since it started. She brings her life experiences as a music lover, collaborator, garlic worshiper, vagabond, and keeper of the archives to the Music Fan Committee. While coming of age in 1975, she saw her first concert: The Allman Brothers Band and Muddy Waters at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey.  

Snapper Earl: I have been lucky enough to be friendly with con-men, ne’er do wells, thieves, and poseurs most of my life and also non-musicians. In spite of this experience I have found myself as a member of bands since the ‘60s, and attending many concerts- quite a few of them turning out to be historical for their venue, content or sheer size. While I play Harmonica in The Sidemen Blues Band, I really enjoy all kinds of music and find it necessary for my well being.

John K. Wackman December 1, 1951 - January 8, 2021. The ongoing work of the Music Fan Series is dedicated to our late founder, John Wackman, who began programming the series in July of 2014. John, an accomplished TV writer and producer, died unexpectedly in January of 2021. A guiding light in our community, he loved music and saw it as a great unifier. We continue the Music Fan Series in his honor.
Local record collectors curated an exhibit in the Rosendale lobby titled: “50 Years of Classic LP Covers.” John Wackman on the left, in the orange shirt, is the founder of the Music Fan Film Series.
PAST
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Music Fan Series Presents: FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK A Special Presentation for Women’s History Month

Music Fan Series Presents: Soul Power and Energy Dance Company

Music Fan Series Presents: The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile

Music Fan Series Presents Concert for George

Music Fan Series Presents Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2022

Music Fan Series Presents – Moonage Daydream

Music Fan Series Presents – Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song

Music Fan Series Presents – Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story

Music Fan Series Presents: Ronnie’s The Ultimate Night Out at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

Music, Money, Madness . . . Jimi Hendrix In Maui

2021
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Learning to Live Together: Return of Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road

The Velvet Underground

December 12, 2021
November 17, 2021
October 15, 2021

Summer of Soul

August 3, 2021

Women Composers

March 20, 2021

Heartworn Highways

February 19, 2021

Rock Camp: The Movie

January 14, 2021
2020

Zappa

December 4, 2020

16 Bars

July 10, 2020

Other Music

April 24, 2020

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band

March 6, 2020

The Night James Brown Saved Boston

February 9, 2020

Western Stars

January 14, 2020
2019

Say Amen Somebody

December 18, 2019

ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas

November 20, 2019

Judy

October 18, 2019

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

October 15, 2019

PUNK THE CAPITAL: Building a Sound Movement

September 24, 2019

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

September 16, 2019

Mama Africa

August 21, 2019

Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock & Roll

July 19, 2019

Echo in the Canyon

July 16, 2019

Rocketman

June 30, 2019

Sinatra Deconstructed presented by author and popular music expert Will Friedwald

June 25, 2019

Woodstock (1970)

June 18, 2019

Acoustic Stardust: An Intimate David Bowie Tribute with Robert Burke Warren and Friends

May 30, 2019

Amazing Grace

May 19, 2019

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church

May 15, 2019

A TRIBUTE TO NAT “KING” COLE

March 19, 2019

Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration

March 5, 2019

How They Got Over

February 20, 2019

The Doors: Live at the Bowl ’68

January 16, 2019
2018

Imagine

December 19, 2018

Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story

November 14, 2018

Louis Armstrong Duets

October 17, 2018

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

September 12, 2018

Beatles: Yellow Submarine

July 18, 2018

Our Latin Thing

July 6, 2018

Mantra: Sounds into Silence

June 3, 2018

Carole King’s Tapestry Live in Hyde Park

May 16, 2018

Concert for George

March 18, 2018

Marley

February 21, 2018

Soul Power

February 21, 2018

A Poem Is a Naked Person

January 17, 2018
2017

Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives

November 6, 2017

Two Trains Runnin’

October 18, 2017

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World

September 19, 2017

Rene Bailey’s NEW Gospel CD Release Concert and BENEFIT for Rosendale Theatre. Featuring The Saints of Swing.

July 19, 2017

Danny Says

July 11, 2017

Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967)

June 27, 2017

Monterey Pop (1967)

June 20, 2017

Chasing Trane: John Coltrane Feature Documentary

May 9, 2017

Take Me to the River

April 11, 2017

The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

February 7, 2017

Gimme Danger

February 2, 2017

The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith

January 10, 2017
2016

Miles Ahead

December 2, 2016

The Music of Strangers

November 1, 2016

LIVE! ON STAGE JONATHAN RICHMAN featuring TOMMY LARKINS on the drums!

October 15, 2016

The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years

September 15, 2016

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

August 12, 2016

Sidemen: Long Road to Glory

August 2, 2016

Queen: A Night in Bohemia & Heavy Metal Parking Lot

July 13, 2016

Sing Street

June 3, 2016

Purple Rain (1984) – A Tribute to Prince

May 7, 2016

Mavis!

April 5, 2016

Ornette: Made in America

March 8, 2016

The Amazing Nina Simone

February 16, 2016
2015

Heart of a Dog

December 15, 2015

Paradise is There

November 3, 2015

The Wrecking Crew

October 7, 2015

Amy

September 1, 2015

Lambert & Stamp

July 28, 2015

Love & Mercy

June 21, 2015
2014

The Last Waltz: Rosendale Theatre’s July 4th Music Invasion Weekend

July 6, 2014

Stop Making Sense: Rosendale Theatre’s July 4th Music Invasion Weekend

July 6, 2014

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me: Rosendale Theatre’s July 4th Music Invasion Weekend

July 5, 2014

July 4th Music Invasion Weekend

July 4, 2014

CALLING ALL RECORD COLLECTORS! Rosendale Theatre’s July 4th Music Invasion Weekend

July 4, 2014

A Hard Day’s Night: Rosendale Theatre’s July 4th Music Invasion Weekend

July 4, 2014

CONTACT US

845-658-8989

info@rosendaletheatre.org

408 Main Street | PO Box 545
Rosendale, NY 12472

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