All-star Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson takes place Thursday evening at Los Angeles’ Kia Discussion board
Martin Scorsese will function director the Thursday evening’s all-star tribute to Robbie Robertson at Los Angeles’ Kia Discussion board, which will likely be become a live performance movie for future launch.
Introduced in July, Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson is ready to function artists together with Trey Anastasio, Elvis Costello, Warren Haynes, Eric Church, Jim James, Margo Value, Bob Weir, and Noah Kahan, in addition to The Final Waltz vets like Eric Clapton and Van Morrison.
Scorsese was initially on board as an govt producer of the tribute live performance, however on Wednesday, organizers revealed that the legendary filmmaker — who additionally helmed The Band’s traditional The Final Waltz live performance movie — will likely be behind the digicam for Life Is a Carnival, Variety reports, practically 48 years after he captured the Band’s farewell present in November 1976.
Robertson, a longtime collaborator of Scorsese’s, died in August 2023 on the age of 80. In a tribute on the time, Scorsese known as Robertson one in all his “closest mates” and “a continuing” in his life and work. “I may all the time go to him as a confidante. A collaborator. An advisor,” Scorsese wrote. “I attempted to be the identical for him.”
Scorsese later penned a lengthy remembrance Rolling Stone, paying tribute to the singer/songwriter who served as his music producer and composer on movies like The King of Comedy (1982), The Coloration of Cash (1986), On line casino (1995), Gangs of New York (2002), The Irishman (2019), and 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which was launched shortly after Robertson’s loss of life.
