And The Roots of the Rhythm Remain with Joe Boyd [In-Person Only]
Wed Sep 10:
TICKETS ARE OFFERED AT SLIDING SCALE
$0 Minimum
$10 Suggested
$15 Appreciated
Joe Boyd
2025
About
Legendary producer, author and gifted raconteur Joe Boyd has created a unique event: a narrated journey through the world’s music. Based on his new book, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, he has assembled rarely-if-ever-seen clips showing Kate Bush with Bulgaria’s Trio Bulgarka, Taj Mahal with kora great Toumani Diabaté, Ravi Shankar with George Harrison, Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ivo Papasov, Django Reinhardt, Carmen Miranda, Dizzy Gillespie and many more. Boyd shows how personalities, events and politics in places such as Havana, Lagos, Budapest, Kingston and Rio were as colourful and momentous as anything that took place in New Orleans, Harlem, Laurel Canyon or Liverpool. And moreover, how jazz, rhythm & blues and rock & roll would never have happened if it weren’t for the melodies and rhythms emanating from over the horizon.
Synopsis courtesy of Joe Boyd
Presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company!
Purchase Joe’s book here! Copies will also be available for purchase at Northwest Film Forum during this event.
Joe Boyd
Joe Boyd is a record producer and writer, renowned for his work with Nick Drake, R.E.M., Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd, Billy Bragg, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Toumani Diabaté, Toots and the Maytals and Taj Mahal, among many others over the course of a sixty-year career. In 2005, he published the acclaimed memoir White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s. As a film producer, his credits include Jimi Hendrix, Scandal and Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace. A gifted raconteur, he appears frequently on the BBC, as well as on local and global radio, podcast and television outlets.
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Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum’s ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. All doors in Northwest Film Forum are non-motorized, and may require staff assistance to open. Our upstairs workshop room is not wheelchair accessible.
The majority of seats in our main cinema are 21″ wide from armrest to armrest; some seats are 19″ wide. We are working on creating the option of removable armrests!
We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter. Also available at the front desk is a Sensory Kit you can borrow, which includes a Communication Card, noise-reducing headphones, and fidget toys.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at suji@nwfilmforum.org. Our phone number (206-329-2629) is voicemail-only, but we check it often.
Made possible due to a grant from Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, in partnership with Sensory Access, our Sensory Access document presents a visual and descriptive walk-through of the NWFF space. View it in advance of attending an in-person event at bit.ly/nwffsocialnarrativepdf, in order to prepare yourself for the experience.
⚠️ COVID-19 Policies ⚠️
NWFF patrons will be strongly encouraged to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status.
Read more about NWFF’s policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations here.