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Update #17: Addresses please!!!
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Posted on July 28, 2010
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Update #16: Backers unite!!!
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Update #15: Hey everybody we made it!!!
Thanks. We did it. made 1114 bucks over our minimum. Because you all believed in this project.
It will take about a month for us to get the photos printed the discs burned with music and video, and collated and packaged to you.
Thank you thank you thank you...
here's a song to celebrate this awesome musician and his story.
And for you, every last one of you. Thanks
Hank
Update #14: Hey everybody Thanks!!
We've stalled at 7244, would love to make it to 7400 so if you all could tell your friends and do a last two day blast, maybe we can get there!!!
Thanks for getting us this far. It's gonna be a good project, because of all of your help!!!
Hank
Update #13: Keep the donations coming
While we've reached the minimum, which means we get to keep what we've raised, the more money that comes in, the better!
TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT US. FIVE MORE DAYS!!!
Update #12: Hey everybody!!
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Posted on July 21, 2010
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Update #11: We need more
Do it. Tell your friends, your enemies, post this on the telephone pole in front of the jazz club near your house... on the subway, the metro, in the supermarket (mercado too) we need to mae this movie it's like an imperative from the justice league.
Help us out!!!
Update #10: Track us online
Facebook page.
We update regularly and post more footage of Henry Grimes here...
http://www.facebook.com/group.php...
Trying to get funding is difficult. This project is close to my heart. Seeing Henry play blew my mind. I brought in Jeremy and Brendan, and Henry's live playing blew their minds. But it was something else about him, something much more monumental. His lack of anger, and ability to see light in almost complete darkness is astounding, and it infects you with hope.
Come along for the ride.
thanks
Hank Cherry
Update #9: Wild ride
Here's Henry in the Profound Sound Trio. Henry is playing violin, Paul Dunmall on Bagpipes, and Andrew Cyrille on drums.
While the pitch is high, the mood of the song is strong, and even joyous.
Definitely proof how versatile a musician Henry is. He was 72 at this point. Adventuresome as ever.
This is from youtube, brought to you by Peopletheater....
Update #8: Spread the word
Hey backers, and anyone else thanks for the support. If you don't mind, spread the word. The photos we're offering are beautiful. The movie is coming along. The music he makes is wild and divergent. And Henry Grimes' life is a wonderful story. A triumph.
So get your pals over here, and lets make this happen.
thanks
Hank Cherry
Update #7: This just in from Margaret Grimes, Henry's wife!!!
In 2OO3, after more than 35 years away, Henry Grimes made a sensational comeback. He has since played concerts in 24 countries, recording, touring, and playing music with the likes of Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Bill Dixon, Dave Douglas, Andrew Lamb, "Kidd" Jordan, David Murray, Marc Ribot, and Cecil Taylor. At the age of 7O, Henry also took up a second instrument, the violin, and is now a published author with a selection of his poems entitled "Signs Along the Road."
How is this possible? How has he done it all? There's an astonishing and inspiring story to be told here. Please help these guys finish our documentary, "The Life and Death and Life of Henry Grimes"!
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the song is Bow in the night by the Henry Grimes Trio.
Update #6: Backers 12 and 13 come aboard
While it has been a little slow going, we're entering our first week with over a thousand pledged, and 13 backers.
Thank you all
and welcome Backers Benton and Fleishman
Update #5: Thanks 10 and 11
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Posted on June 8, 2010
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Update #4: Here's a song in thanks of our two new Donors
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Posted on June 7, 2010
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Update #3: Hello first seven backers
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Posted on June 6, 2010
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 27, 2010.
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a picture postcard signed by Brendan Bannon and a facsimile of a page of the notes for the article that inspired the film. DVDR featuring short live performance we shot of Henry Grimes
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Copy of Music from Film, a Jazz Portrait print photo of Henry Grimes, and a copy of the kick starter trailer, and a copy of that article.
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Hank Cherry studied film at Antioch College, has written about music and photography and art for the past ten years, including essays and articles for Point Magazine, Slake, and Offbeat. A published poet and story writer, he is co-editor of new literary magazine, On Earth, and is in development of another documentary on Trombone shout music. On this project he is joined by Brendan Bannon, an international photojournalist, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Guardian. Jeremy Hoar is also a member of the team. He has been making documentary films since the mid 90's, and is a member of the award winning video sketch comedy troupe, Dueling VHS
Congratulations Henry!