Posts Tagged ‘Joan Osborne’
CLEMENTS ON “THE CHAMELEON CLUB” ON THE LANCAST ::
Postage Principal and Director of “The Chameleon Club”, Allen Clements speaks with David Moulton and Keith Slesser of The Lancast about making the film as well as his next documentary about the Cajun people.
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PROOF OF PURPOSE:: “THE CHAMELEON CLUB” ::
Jeff Thomas and Robin Chambers. Photo by Lori Stahl.
LANCASTER PREMIERE EVENING
We sat in the theatre and ran tests. Harvey Owen wanted to get it just right. “From the top!”, shouted Harvey. The film was digitally re-racked and we waited for our cues. Lit by the flickering of the first hundred frames of my latest film, the Ware center’s modern and purpose-filled acoustical structure looked like the inside of some giant space ark ready to take off. It made me wish that the intro to the film was the scrolling storyline of “A New Hope.” But I guess, you can’t recreate that sort of greatness. It was at rehearsal that I realized the gravity of what “The Chameleon Club” (A Documentary Film) was experiencing.
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JOAN OSBORNE FONDLY REMEMBERS LANCASTER ::
Allen Clements & Joan Osborne. Photograph by Steve Stoltzfus: 911 Photography
Rich Ruoff, founder of the Chameleon Club called me on Friday and said “do you want ten minutes with Joan?” I knew exactly what he meant. Spending over three years producing the Chameleon Club documentary, I had heard a lot about Joan Osborne but didn’t quite grasp the relevance to the Chameleon Club. Apparently our Lancaster home venue was one of the first outer-NY venues that Joan played early in her career… and she returned several times.
If you swear you’ve heard her name before you’re right, though not akin to Ozzy, Joan paid her dues playing the blues which is what she did on Monday night at the inaugural live music event at the Ephrata Main Theatres. In-between those blues-bouts, however, you heard the song “One Of Us
Look for timeless pictures by Steve Stoltzfus and a bit of an interview with Joan Osborne in the upcoming documentary.
The Chameleon Club, a documentary film. TRAILER on YouTube.
Short Article on FLiPSiDE, York, PA.
The Chameleon Club Official Website (No Affiliation)
Steve Stoltzfus Photography / 911 Photographics
Ephrata Main Theatres
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