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Film Follows Search For Blues Singers During Freedom Summer

A feature-length documentary sponsored by Oklahoma City's Historic Film Row will make its Oklahoma debut during the deadCenter Film Festival next month.

Two Trains Runnin', directed by Sam Pollard and narrated by Common, tells the remarkable story of how avid blues fans were able to save the music of their heroes amid the backdrop of racial violence that gripped Mississippi during Freedom Summer in 1964.

KOSU's Kelly Burley visited with Ben Hedin, who wrote Two Trains Runnin', about the film.

In support of the film, one of its featured artists, Lucinda Williams, will play a special performance with a Q&A session at the Paramount Room in Oklahoma City on Tuesday, June 7, beginning at 8pm.

Ticket information for An Evening with Lucinda Williams is at eventbrite.com.

For information about all of the deadCENTER Film festival screenings, visit deadcenterfilm.org.

Kelly Burley served as KOSU Director from September 2007 to May 2019. In 2007, Burley returned to public radio after more than four years as Associate State Director for AARP Oklahoma. Burley first joined KOSU in 1990, first as a reporter, then news director and eventually program director. During that time, he won three Edward R. Murrow awards from the Radio Television News Directors Association, the National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and two national awards from Public Radio News Directors, Inc. Kelly lives in Stillwater with his wife, Lisa. He has two grown children, Clint and Kara.
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