We at the festival programming team worked tirelessly to construct one of the most diverse, entertaining and enlightening programs to date for its savvy, film loving audience
Trustees Theater
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The Fabulous Equinox Orchestra!
The 17-piece orchestra is joined by a small string section to create an electrifying jazz experience for the audience
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1964 is here to Please Please you
SAVANNAH, meet The Faux Four. Heralded by Rolling Stone as the “Best Beatles Tribute on Earth,” 1964: The Tribute returns to Savannah this weekend to recreate an authentic shot of […]
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Savannah Music Festival Review: Drive-By Truckers
Despite – or because of – their Deep South roots, Drive-By Truckers have always espoused a clearly progressive take on social issues, the most obvious example last night being the large “Black Lives Matter” poster on the side of Jay Gonzalez’s keyboards. That said, DBT are also the most dynamic heirs to the classic Southern rock tradition still actively touring today.
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This Machine Thrills: Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch bring Dave Rawlings Machine to Savannah Music Festival
Their second LP “Nashville Obsolete,” a toughed-up version of the roots music many associate Rawlings and Welch with, is a must-have for any Americana fan
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Drive-By Truckers return to town to play the Savannah Music Festival
Heirs to the great Southern rock tradition, they’ve modernized the genre for a new age
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Andrew Bird, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Drive-By Truckers, Dave Rawlings Machine, My Brightest Diamond added to Savannah Music Festival
THE Savannah Music Festival announces tonight that six acts and seven shows are being added to the 2016 lineup: Andrew Bird, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Dave Rawlings Machine, Drive-By […]
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Gray’s Reef Film Fest: ‘Absolutely unbelievable’ undersea images
“I’ve been diving for 70 years; I’ve never stopped and I never will”
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Savannah Film Festival Review: Brooklyn
Saorise Ronan is a truly gifted actress, a master of subtlety and vulnerability; a simple concentrated, zone-out stare speaks volumes of Eilis’s struggle finding her place.
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Savannah Film Festival Review: Legend
At no point do the film’s special effects, allowing Tom Hardy to play both roles, interfere. Very quickly, within the first minute or two, you become completely immune to Hardy being on screen as both identical twin Kray brothers at the same time.
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#SAVFF: Programmer’s Guide
WITH A record breaking 1,150 competition entries from all over the world to sift through this year, as well as engaging studio releases and festival favorites, the selection process for […]
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#SAVFF: Film short Globe Trot explores worldwide unity
“Can I direct camera people remotely all over the world?”