Wheedle's Groove Movie

Wheedle’s Groove was asked to play Reel Film in Portland on Saturday January 23, 2009 7:00pm at Whitsell Auditorium in the Portland Art Museum.  1219 SW Park Avenue.  The listing is here.  This is an amazing festival in it’s 27th year.  Many of our favorite music docs have played there.  Here are a few of the too many to list:

• Anvil! The Story of Anvil!
• Respect Yourself, The Stax Record Story
• You’re Gonna Miss Me (Roky Erikson)
• The Night James Brown Saved Boston
• Be Here to Love Me: A Film about Townes Van Zandt
• The Devil in Daniel Johnston
• Agile, Mobile, and Hostile: A Year with Andrew Williams
• I am Trying to Break your Heart
• Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns
• Tom Dowd and the Language of Music

Brian Barr interviewed director Jennifer Maas this week for the Seattle Weekly about Wheedle’s Groove here .  We also made a Hannah Levin’s year-end ‘most-best’ list.

We just got our acceptance letter to the 2010 Oxford Film Festival!  We are very excited to attend this very cool festival.  More details to follow.

Kearney Barton is the followup to the 2004 Wheedle’s Groove compilation. Spin magazine just gave it an 8/10.  Here’s an excerpt.

Here’s proof that Seattle is an underrated R&B paradise — 37 minutes of the hot-test funk and coolest grooves you’ll hear all year. Wheedle’s Groove is a supersession crew of Seattle old-timers, most in their 60s, and Kearney Barton plays like the soundtrack to the greatest blaxploitation flick never made. It’s all fantastic, but the money shots are covers of the Stone Roses (”Fools Gold”) and Soundgarden. Ever wonder how “Jesus Christ Pose” might sound as a slow-burn gospel throwdown? Trust me, you need to hear it.

Read the original article here.

Our West Coast premiere in Olympia tonight was amazing. Capitol Theater was beautiful, 200 people were there, and we had our first q&a with the musicians! It was perfect. Thanks to Kanako Wynkoop for packing the house, Calvin Johnson at K Records for the sponsorship, and Olympia Film Fest for the warm reception!

Wheedle’s Groove will have its West Coast premiere at the 26th annual Olympia Film festival tomorrow Tuesday November 10 at Capitol Theater. Here is the festival write-up.

We had a wonderful time showing the film to the cast and crew last night. The response was wonderful. I will post pictures tomorrow.

We had an absolutely amazing time in Memphis.  Ridiculous.  We just found out that the festival Wheedle’s Groove just won the Audience Award for Documentary at Indie Memphis!

We are so excited to be going to Memphis.  Producer Matt Sullivan and I got married last week and will be taking our honeymoon in Memphis for the world premiere of Wheedle’s Groove!

http://indiememphis.bside.com/2009/films/wheedlesgroove_indiememphis2009