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Paul Simon at Berklee Performance Center
Where
Berklee Performance Center
136 Massachusetts Ave
Boston, MA
Map
617 747 2261
When
Fri, June 8, 2012
2-4 pm
At Door
Save the date
Musicians
Paul Simon
composer / conductorAbout
Berklee will host a free screening of Under African Skies, the Joe Berlinger-directed documentary chronicling the creation and lasting influence of Paul Simon's Graceland, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking album. The screening, presented by Bakithi Kumalo, a featured bassist on the album, takes place on Friday, June 8, from 2-4 p.m., at the Berklee Performance Center, located at 136 Mass. Ave., Boston.
The story of the making of Graceland, and the controversy created when Simon went to South Africa to record with local artists, is told in Under African Skies, the new full-length documentary from two-time Emmy and Peabody Award winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother's Keeper, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, the West Memphis Three/Paradise Lost trilogy) and @radical.media and A&E IndieFilms....