Tickets are available TWO WAYS. One is online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/27043 and please use the Will Call option. A neat feature on this is that you may purchase tickets in someone else’s name- as many different names as you’d like. This comes in handy if you’re giving as a gift or having someone show up ahead of time to save a seat.

The second ticket purchase option is purchase at a LOCAL business in Huntsville at STEARNS’ COFFEE at 2113 Whitesburg Drive in Huntsville (the former “Seattle South” locale.) While you are there, try one of their delicious coffees, teas, or pastries, and enjoy the convivial atmosphere. Stearns “gives back to the community” by supporting a different charity each month. They also have a free “movie night” once a week!

Special thanks to owners Daniel and Marisa Stearns for supporting this event and for the use of their shop! It’s been our HQ’s Central.

We now have the schedule for Microwave Dave’s “Talking the Blues” show that features an interview with John Sayles and selections from the Honeydripper soundtrack. It will be aired:

Saturday, February 2nd at 8pm on WLRH FM 89.3 www.wlrh.org

Tuesday, February 5th at 6pm on WJAB 90.9 www.aamu.edu/WJAB/

The interview is primarily about the music in Honeydripper, and Dave plays most selections in their entirely. Featured artists include Keb’ Mo’, Lil Green, the New Beginnings Ministry, the Aces of Spade, Dr. Mabel John, Barrence Whitfield, Gary Clark, Jr. and Ruth Brown in one of her final recordings. John Sayles discusses the songwriting, music preparation, recording, and research that make up Honeydripper’s soundtrack and storyline. This will be a great show, so don’t miss it!

Tickets to the Honeydripper Premiere are now for sale! John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, along with several other cast and crew members, will be at the premiere. And don’t forget that your $20 entry includes an after-party at Flying Monkey Arts, featuring Microwave Dave and the Nukes along with Henderson Huggins and Eddie Shaw, fabulous blues musicians who were in Honeydripper. You can buy your tickets from Brown Paper Tickets, a “fair trade” ticket selling organization that charges a minimal fee. Here is the website: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/27043. These tickets won’t last long, so act fast!

The Huntsville premiere of Honeydripper will be at the Hollywood 18 on February 8. There will be an after party featuring Microwave Dave and his band playing with members of the Honeydripper All-Star Blues Band. As Dave says, they’ll “heat it up.”  We will be back with information on buying tickets for the premiere, which will entitle the buyer to admission to the smokin blues party.

Filmmaker John Sayles is teaching a master class at the Flying Monkey Arts Center on February 8 at 1:00 P.M.. The class is free and open to the public.

Maverick filmmakers John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are coming to Huntsville as part of the Alabama premiere of their latest movie, Honeydripper, which was filmed in Greenville, Georgiana, Anniston, and Midway, Alabama. They will be here on Friday, February 8, and we are planning some exciting events. Check back regularly. We will keep you posted on the events, and let you know how you can be a part of what we are calling “Project Honeydripper.”