CJSR's FunDrive 2021 was a resounding success. Thanks for doing your part in the effort to root, root, root for the home team. Longtime volunteers Joe Hartfeil and Qasim Hirani have joined forces to salute the big red star machine and all its supporters via this grand slam of a Bronx cheer.

Talkin' FunDrive (CJSR Thank You Song 2021)

As part of a new collaboration between my radio show the Organ Grinder, CJSR and Metro Cinema, select screenings will feature preshow entertainment on the haunted Metro organ. The next Organ Grinder Roadshow screening will feature the talents of acclaimed local blues/jazz grinder Rooster Davis just prior to Metropolis on Wednesday, December 14; come early for the 6:00 PM performance!

Listen (to this entertaining ad), learn (at https://www.metrocinema.org/production/metropolis/) and love (organ music and movies).

These performances are supported through funding from Edmonton Arts Council.

Trailer: Metropolis at Metro Cinema with Rooster Davis (Organ Grinder Roadshow)

"Stop smiling. It's not the high school play."

Master choreographer/director Bob Fosse's confessional look at the dark side of Broadway is the next entry in the Organ Grinder Roadshow series, pairing select screenings at Metro Cinema with live cinema organ preshows. Sean Fulton will play a jazzy set of showtunes, starting at 6:30 PM on Thursday, January 26 to set the stage just prior to All That Jazz. This series is supported by CJSR and Edmonton Arts Council.

Learn more: www.metrocinema.org/production/allthatjazz/

Trailer: All That Jazz at Metro Cinema with Sean Fulton (Organ Grinder Roadshow)

On February 15 at 6:30 PM, Sahil Chugh plays a delightful cinema organ preshow for Wes Anderson's ensemble-driven gem "The Grand Budapest Hotel."

The Organ Grinder Roadshow presents a limited series of live performances prior to select screenings at Metro Cinema in Edmonton. Supported by Edmonton Arts Council, CJSR and CJSR's long-running radio program the Organ Grinder.

Learn more: https://soundcloud.com/user-945658521/all-that-jazz-metro-cinema

Trailer: The Grand Budapest Hotel at Metro Cinema (Organ Grinder Roadshow)

As part of the Organ Grinder Roadshow series supported by CJSR and Edmonton Arts Council, Ann Fidan will perform a dreamy and delightful cinema organ preshow for a screening of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on March 26 at Metro Cinema (6:30 PM).

Trailer - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Ann Fidan (Organ Grinder Roadshow)

With just four doses of the greatest con artists and grifters on celluloid, you'll be a brand new you!

Snake Oil Cinema at Metro Cinema (8712 109 St NW):

- Elmer Gantry on May 21 at 2:45 PM, a Sunday Classics co-presentation!
- Mel Brooks’s original The Producers holiday Monday, May 22, with an Organ Grinder Roadshow performance by Bill Richards at 3:00 PM!
- Wise Blood on May 27 at 3:30 PM!
- Ace in the Hole on May 28 at 7:00 PM!

Special Snake Oil drink in the lobby before The Producers and Ace in the Hole. It's sure to cure what ails ya!

metrocinema.org/series/snake-oil-cinema/

(Library music selections include Doug Organ's Snake Oil by permission of the artist plus Wild Time by Rose Treacher)

Trailer: The Grand Budapest Hotel at Metro Cinema (Organ Grinder Roadshow)

Joe Hartfeil

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