{"id":30630,"date":"2024-10-16T21:02:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/martin-scorsese-to-direct-film-of-all-star-robbie-robertson-tribute-concert\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T21:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T21:02:27","slug":"martin-scorsese-to-direct-film-of-all-star-robbie-robertson-tribute-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/martin-scorsese-to-direct-film-of-all-star-robbie-robertson-tribute-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese to direct film of all-star Robbie Robertson tribute concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-16\/M_RobbieRobertsonLifeIsACarnaval_073024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Blackbird Presents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The late <strong>Robbie Robertson<\/strong>\u2019s life and music is being celebrated with a tribute concert in Los Angeles Friday,\u00a0and now fans who can\u2019t make it to the show will\u00a0one day be able to experience it on the big screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was just announced that director <strong>Martin Scorsese<\/strong>, a longtime friend and collaborator of Robertson\u2019s, is set to direct a film of the concert, dubbed\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Life Is A Carnival: A Musical Celebration Of Robbie Robertson<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The concert, happening at the Kia Forum, will feature an all-star lineup that includes <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Van Morrison<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Mike Campbell\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Benmont Tench\u00a0<\/strong>of\u00a0<strong>Tom Petty &amp; the Heartbreakers<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Bruce Hornsby\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Warren Haynes<\/strong>, along with<strong>\u00a0Bobby Weir<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Trey Anastasio<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Noah Kahan<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jim James<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Daniel Lanois<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Mavis Staples<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Don Was<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Eric Church<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jamey Johnson<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Lucinda Williams <\/strong>and<strong> Margo Price<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Scorsese and Robertson worked together on several projects over the course of their careers, starting with Scorsese\u2019s direction of <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Last Waltz<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">,\u00a0the film about Robbie and <strong>The Band<\/strong>&#8216;s 1976 farewell concert. Robbie then worked as composer, music supervisor and music producer on several of Scorsese\u2019s films, including <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Raging Bull<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The King of Comedy<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Color of Money<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Casino<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0and <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Departed.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Their most recent project together, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Killers of the Flower Moon,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0which was released after Robbie\u2019s Aug. 9, 2023, death, earned him a posthumous Oscar nomination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackbird Presents The late Robbie Robertson\u2019s life and music is being celebrated with a tribute concert in Los Angeles Friday,\u00a0and now fans who can\u2019t make it to the show will\u00a0one day be able to experience it on the big screen. It was just announced that director Martin Scorsese, a longtime<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/martin-scorsese-to-direct-film-of-all-star-robbie-robertson-tribute-concert\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}