Product Details

• Actors: Gogol Bordello, Hieroglyphics, Cyro Baptista, Oteil Burbridge, Spam Allstars
• Directors: Chris Pepino
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: True Form Pictures
• DVD Release Date: August 1, 2007
• Run Time: 56 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000VZC50C
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #93,277 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Northeast Kingdom Music Festival Film" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor

Bands featured in the film (in order of appearance): Oteil Burbridge & the Peacemakers, Abby Jenne & Stacy Starkweather, Dub Is A Weapon, Anais Mitchell, The Devil Makes Three, The Greyhounds, Cyro Baptista & Beat The Donkey, Skratchmatik DJ's, The Spam Allstars, Maggi Pierce & E.J., Old School Freight Train, Toubab Krewe, Inner Visions, Leslie Helpert, Bread & Puppet Theater, Jan Monteagudo-Meese, The Insidious Rays, Gogol Bordello, Snake Oil Medicine Show, Hieroglyphics

Product Description

This vibrant concert film/documentary includes three years of highlights from the intimate Vermont music and arts festival (2004-2006). Performers include: Gogol Bordello, Cyro Baptista and Beat the Donkey, Hieroglyphics, Toubab Krewe, The Spam Allstars, The Devil Makes Three, Oteil Burbridge and the Peacemakers and many others. The film carries you on a colorful journey through a seamless weekend at the locally celebrated festival and features fan interviews, coverage of festival activities and events, behind the scenes footage, and 21 eclectic performances that took N.E.K.M.F audiences by storm year after year. Set against a backdrop of Northern Vermont's rolling green mountains on the 90-acre Chilly Ranch that is home to the festival site, the film is framed by breathtaking scenery. Giant dancing puppets tower over concert audiences and fire-twirlers light up the brisk night sky as one great band performs after another, each concert poles apart from the next. From hip-hop to folk, bluegrass to rock and funk, a score of genres are represented by the acts that took to the N.E.K.M.F stage and shined. Many of the fans in attendance at the Vermont event have attested to an experience unlike any other concert festival. As said by festival site owner Bill Pearce at the close of the film, This is one of the places that the revolution starts.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars NEKMF... word, February 27, 2008

By	AJ (CA) - See all my reviews

I wish I lived in Vermont. It's so hard to find good music where I live. The Devil Makes Three totally rock in this movie. I've never seen them live in concert, but this is the best compromise you could find. They are awesome... and everyone else is too for that matter. Gogol Bordello of course, no question. There is so much great footage this documentary offers. Day and night, all the performances are rad. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes good, interesting music and smaller less mainstream music festivals. NEKMF totally rocks!

5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing concert film, October 1, 2007

By	Blakohm (California, USA) - See all my reviews

I am a huge fan of concert movies. I had never attended this Vermont festival before, but I picked up a copy after the film came highly recommended by a friend. This movie is packed with awesome bands, and each one is quite different. Gogol Bordello gives a searing performance from their Gypsy punk repertoire while crowd surfers glide across the audience in the background. The female singer Abby Jenne totally blew me away with her performance of "Woman Be Wise"; she literally gave me chills. The movie is shot in the style of independent documentary, showing a real up-close account of what an experience at the music festival is all about. Almost as fascinating as the first-rate concert footage in this movie, are the behind the scenes activities and interviews that are featured throughout the film, especially the fire twirling segment. More than just a generic gathering, there is evident a spirit of friendliness, acceptance, and joy at the Vermont festival, that holds a rare beauty. The camerawork really is topnotch, the sound is impressively clear, and the editing made watching footage from all three years flawless. I would highly recommend this for any music lovers to check out.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I was there, February 23, 2009

By	K. Kain - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Well, I was at this show and let me tell you it truly was great. It was small, family oriented, safe for kids, with all the emphasis on the music and less on drugs and partying, although there were plenty of both to be had if you wished. I have not yet seen this DVD but I am ordering it today as I just found out it existed. I am always trying to talk my friends into riding up with me for this show as I now live in Jersey. Now I will have a video to go along with all my beautiful memories. Oh yeah, the Gogol Bordello performance was off the hook.