Don't miss special events for:
CHILDRENS' FILMS, SUNDAY MARCH 21 or
SHORT FILMS, TUESDAY MARCH 23!
Join us for the F3 EVE OPENING EVENT
at the Weinberg Center for the Arts,
THURSDAY, MARCH 25!
Join Us for the F3 Premier Event on March 19!
Help us kick off The Frederick Film Festival—The F3—with an intimate evening of live music and short films at Brewer’s Alley on March 19 starting at 8:30pm. Tickets are $35 and include not only the music and the movies, but appetizers, world-class microbrews and select wines. Tickets are available online at: www.F3Tix.com. Tickets are limited so buy now!
The music is provided by acclaimed national recording acts Robbie Fulks with special guest Jenny Scheinman and the films will be previews of the high quality national and international short films that will be screened at the F3 the following weekend.
Robbie Fulks has spent the better part of two decades avoiding being pigeon-holed into one genre and writing/singing some of the most clever, most intelligent, and most insightful songs. As noted in the Village Voice, “Fulks will always be down with the twang, but he’s not going to live in anyone’s ghetto.” Such labels as “Americana”… “Insurgent”… “Alt-Country” could easily be applied to Fulks’ style, but to do so would limit the straight ahead rock-and-roll often found on his albums (like the title track of “Let’s Kill Saturday Night”) or the wide range of musical tastes this picker has and has demonstrated over the course of his ten or so albums.
Fulks has endeavored to enshrine retro styles while bringing them forward in time with an ability to apply relevance where one least expects it. He has worked diligently at reviving the original essence of some of the most traditional of American music while figuratively (and often quite literally) giving the middle finger to the whitewashed, soulless platitudes that passes for modern “country” music. Additionally, Fulks has the uncanny knack of covering a song…often a surprising song…and making it forever his own.
Jenny Scheinman is also adept at avoiding having her style labeled. While most often identified as a jazz violinist, Scheinman has taken the #1 Rising Star Violinist title in the Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll, has been listed as one of their Top Ten Overall Violinists for the last five years. Her fourth instrumental release, 12 Songs, was named by the New York Times as one of the Top Ten Albums of 2005. Scheinman has worked with Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin, Bill Frisell, Lucinda Williams, Madeleine Peyroux, Marc Ribot and many others, and she’s garnered numerous high-profile arranging credits (i.e. Lucinda Williams's West, Bono’s A Dying Sailor to His Shipmates, Lou Reed’s “Power of the Heart”).
Scheinman has also been using her talents as a composer, arranger, songwriter, and soloist to develop another facet of her musical persona: folk-country-blues songstress. With traditional bow and string arrangements taken in wonderful new directions she has attracted an audience far beyond what the label of “jazz violinist” would have afforded her. Scheinman’s skill and stage presence gives her what the New York Times calls, “…the street musician's trick of getting attention with the pure power of a single, perfect note.”
Fulks and Scheinman may have their roots in different places in the musical geography, but their music and their inability (and unwillingness) to be categorized for the convenience of others, has made the music these two produce more…much more…than the
“(Fulks) versatility demonstrates he’s a natural born country singer who in various guises recalls Buck Owens, Whisperin’ Bill Anderson, Freddy Fender and an array of bluegrass tenors.” —USA Today
“Fulks is touched with authentic pop genius.”
—Time Out New York
“Robbie Fulks likes to tick people off....America’s most unjustly unsung singer/songwriter.” —Spin
“Not so many years ago, Nashville would have celebrated an original like Fulks as one of the greats.”
—Country Weekly
“Judging from the 50’s style hard country sound...you’d swear Fulks once traded beers with Webb Pierce...takes on Nashville in style.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Fulks has become one of the most compelling voices out there of indie-label, off the radio country...he’s a gifted guitarist, soulful singer with an expressive honky-tonk tenor and he’s a natural performer ....Mix(es) postwar country, a dark world view and a whimsical sense of humor...”
—New York Times