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  Jimmy Walker 1978 Performance at Elsewhere

  Arts & Culture, Black

  Video recording of Jimmy Walker’s 1978 performance at Elsewhere blues club in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, shot in black and white.

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  Speakin’ of the Blues: Larry Hoffman

  Arts & Culture, Black, Chicago, Communities, Events, Performance

  Barry Dolins interviews Larry Hoffman on his Blues composition, accompanied by a performance of the composition from the New Millenium Orchestra String Quartet.

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  [Benson Hedges Blues Fest, tape 1]

  Arts & Culture, Black, Chicago, Communities, Performance

  Performances and interviews from the Benson Hedges Blues Fest captured by Barry Dolins.

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  [Country-Rock Band]

  CLIR, Roots of Video

  A country-rock band plays a series of cover songs.

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  [Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival]

  Appalshop, Arts & Culture, CLIR, Roots of Video

  A series of performances at the Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival in Kentucky.

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  [Coal Mining Songs and Stories]

  Appalshop, Arts & Culture, CLIR, Roots of Video

  A performance of songs from Appalachia including both original compositions and traditional folk songs.

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  [Joe Albert’s Fox Hunt: Pineconers 3]

  CLIR, Global Village, Julie Gustafson, Roots of Video

  A musical performance by Appalachian folk band The Pineconers, recorded for the documentary Joe Albert’s Fox Hunt and Other Stories from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.

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  Peephole Art: Beckett for Television

  CLIR, Global Village, Global Village, John Reilly, Roots of Video

  Features definitive versions of Beckett’s recent works written or adapted for television. There are three additional works in The Beckett Project series produced by Global Village: What Where (1988/10 minutes), a video version of Beckett’s last play overseen by the playwright himself, Godot in San Quentin (1988/27 minutes), a fascinating version of Waiting For Godot, produced by inmates of this maximum-security prison, and Waiting for Beckett (1994/86 minutes), a unique television documentary on the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett, which includes a rare scene with the playwright critiquing a video performance of one of his plays.