Monday, August 12, 2024
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Screening, followed by Q&A + LIVE performance by Ike Reilly & Friends
All Ages
$25 (+taxes/fees) Advanced General Admission // $30 (+taxes/fees) At The Door
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Premiere screening (along with Q&A and performance) of the acclaimed documentary film, Don't Turn Your Back on Friday Night, chronicling 30 years of legendary troubadour Ike Reilly's life, songs, and stories.
Directed by Mike Schmiedeler, it's an impressionistic and refreshing examination of the former gravedigger and hotel doorman's music, faith, family, booze and financial calamity.
Following a post-screening Q&A with Schmiedeler and Reilly, stick around for a LIVE SET performed by Ike Reilly and friends.
Don’t Turn Your Back On Friday Night explores the life and career of the Chicago-based songwriter Ike Reilly.
The film compiles over 30 years of footage covering Reilly’s life, songs and stories. It’s an impressionistic and refreshing examination of the former gravedigger and hotel doorman’s music, faith, family, booze and financial calamity. Director Mike Schmiedeler is pleased to bring the film to Minneapolis because the Twin Cities has been an important stomping ground for Reilly and the film contains prominent scenes from First Avenue and other Minnesota locations.
“The Twin Cities audience is cherished by Ike, and many of the live performances featured in the film are from the storied venues here in town. We are thrilled to be screening the documentary at The Parkway before the film’s national VOD release on August 27. And no better way to celebrate the film with the audience than with Ike Reilly and compatriots performing live,’’ Schmiedeler says.
The film features interviews with Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine), actor David Pasquesi (Veep, Book Of Boba Fett) musicians David Lowery and Johnny Hickman (Cracker) as well Minneapolis music scene mainstays Steve McClellan, Andrea Swensson, Pat Dwyer, Conrad Sverkerson, and Jim Walsh.
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