Big events are on the calendar at Maiden Alley Cinema in Paducah. Kicking off 2015, the Music @ MAC series presents roots country duo Jack Grelle and Ryan Koenig with Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers on Monday, January 12. On Sounds Good, MAC's Executive Director Landee Bryant-Greene gives Kate Lochte an outlook on some of the bands lined up this year, how the Film Brew Series is being kicked up a notch and her reflections on the screening of the controversial film, The Interview.
Music @ MAC
Jack Grelle and Ryan Koenig are a roots country duo out of St. Louis with Koenig known as the multi-instrumentalist with Pokey LaFarge. They perform Monday, January 12th at 7 p.m. at Maiden Alley Cinema in Paducah with the Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers, a kazoo-playing, barn-dancing, vaudevillian duo from Wisconsin. Landee Bryant-Greene says it's "one of those things that you like to listen to, but it's much more fun if you're there." Tickets are $5 and available at maidenalleycinema.org.
2015 Performances
Music is booked every month through May (currently) with performances by Patrick Sweany with The Maness Brothers and Chris Black and the Eagles of Unemployment (February 27). Also, WKMS Battle of the Bands in March and a performance by JD McPherson. Future performances by Amy Lavere and the Hooten Hallers and Lew Jetton & 61 South. Plans are also in the works for making the Film Brew Series more of an interactive event, with the airing of Road Warrior.
On The Interview
Bryant-Greene says it was a fun film and the best part was that it brought a lot of newcomers to downtown and to Maiden Alley Cinema, initially being the only theatre in Kentucky that played the controversial film. MAC is part of the Art House Convergence, an organization of over 300 arthouse cinemas across the country. A leader from this movement wrote an open letter to SONY asking to play the film, with a petition signed by members. "It was an important thing to do for artistic integrity and freedom and it was important for us to try to bring a new audience down here."
