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Beatlemania! Get Back Unplugged

+ A Hard Day’s Night Film Screening

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Get Back Unplugged – The Beatles Reimagined, aims to revisit some of the best loved songs of late-period Beatles, and to deliver them with the joy and spontaneity of friends singing around a kitchen table.

Bringing together six stellar singers and players who, between them, span the worlds of folk, Celtic, blues, jazz, and classical music, this intimate and engaging performance does not try to imitate the Fab Four, but rather seeks to present renditions that are authentic to the musicians’ own unique voices. A fiddle can give a dazzling guitar solo? An accordion can be a menacing bulldog? With renditions ranging from Nova Scotia folk music vibes to classic Tina Turner, audiences marvel at this group’s incredible interpretations!

Get Back Unplugged started as an idea of Vancouver-based folk-pop trio The Wahs, after seeing producer Peter Jackson’s documentary about the famous Get Back recording sessions and the celebrated Beatles rooftop concert. The show includes the rooftop set list as well as many well known Beatle’s songs and lesser known gems.

Featuring The Wahs: Cameron Wilson, Violin, vocals; Andrew Hillhouse, Vocals, guitar; Brent Gubbels, Bass; and special guests: LJ Mounteney, Vocals, ukulele, percussion; Allan Dionne, Accordion, vocals; David Gibbons, Vocals, guitar

About the Film: A Hard Day’s Night (84 min)
The new wave goes pop in Lester’s irresistibly optimistic Beatles movie (their first and his third film). Cranking up ’a day-in-the-life’ handheld vérité with slapstick surrealism, Marx brothers’ style word play, and of course the band’s liberating rock n roll, Lester captures the giddy excitement, the now-ness of the moment. Enormously influential if not entirely original, the film’s jump cut-up aesthetic anticipated MTV by two decades.

One of the great life-affirming landmarks of the movies.

Roger Ebert

Date

Dec 7

Time

7:00 pm

Venue

VIFF Centre, VIFF Cinema

19+
190 min

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Sunday December 07

7:00 pm
Guests/Q&As Hearing Assistance
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Credits

Executive Producer

David V. Picker

Producer

Walter Shenson

Screenwriter

Alun Owen

Cinematography

Gilbert Taylor

Editor

John Jympson

Art Director

Ray Simm

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