Needham Filmmaker's 'For The Love of the Music' to Premiere Tonight at Boston Film Festival
Documentary feature tells the story of Cambridge's Club 47 and the folk music revival of the 1960s.
A new documentary film chronicling the Cambridge folk revival of the 1960s, co-produced and co-directed by Needham resident Rob Stegman, is being featured at the 2012 Boston International Film Festival this week. “For the Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival” will premiere tonight along with another film, “White Space,” from 6-7:45 p.m. at the AMC/LOEWS theater in Boston Common. Tickets are available online. The film tells the story of Club 47, an iconic Harvard Square coffeehouse—now known as Club Passim—that provided a stage to folk greats such as Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Taj Mahal and Judy Collins during the Cambridge folk revival of 1958-68. The film features interviews with a number of artists and people involved in the scene, …
