![]() We have, collectively, rebuilt the entire industry around nostalgia ![]() The past has become sacred and unquestionable. More than ever before, younger players from more diverse backgrounds are seizing guitars at such a rate that guitar makers can’t keep up with the demand. He is finding ways to keep the guitar relevant in a landscape of astonishingly broad listening habits and rich learning resources. Henson, by contrast, is currently in the ascendance: an innovative guitarist who is inspiring new players. The innovations are small, the returns of that cycle of self-consumption diminishing. Retro-fetishists can claim to update classic rock all they like, but with a few exceptions, it's mostly more of the same. Yes, it’s all part of a broader cycle, but that side of guitar playing isn't getting any younger. The fact is that 'boomer bends' are overused. Secondly, it prodded me to question my own playing – which frequently defaults into blues-rock clichés – and, thirdly, it convinced me that this conversation is long overdue. ![]() My job is writing for guitar and music-making publications, and I have used many more words to say much less. As someone sandwiched between the two warring generations of Boomers and Gen Z, I have to say that when I heard the term I was glad.įirstly – like Beato – it made me laugh, because in Henson’s concept of "boomer-ish" bends, he perfectly encapsulated and dismissed 60 years of lazy guitar tropes. “I think this film, helping to bring us back to normal, it will be a great influence on that.Thankfully, many viewers took it in good humor, confessing their own addiction to 'boomer bends' or laughing at Henson’s throw-away skewering. I think that this particular film, it's a large film with some great people behind an incredible director and producers,” Rossi said. I lived in LA, in New York for 20 years, but I think it's wonderful. After the industry, like many others, slowed in the COVID pandemic, those putting together Cabrini are excited about working in Buffalo. Scenes will also be shot in New York City and in Italy, Rossi added.īuffalo has in recent years worked to build up its film industry, from hosting shoots to announcing plans for the construction of a handful of local studios. Those selected will be paid, either the New York State minimum wage or, in some cases as Rossi explained, a wage set by a Screen Actors Guild agreement. More information on what the producers are seeking and how to apply may be found at Buffalo Film Casting's website. But Rossi adds that some additional parts featuring people who don't look Italian will also need to be filled. Men, women and children of Italian heritage, or who may look Italian, are sought to play residents and immigrants from that time period. The film will be set in the Five Points section of New York City. Her movement, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, became the largest known charitable effort in history, according to Rossi. citizen to achieve sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. She was canonized as a saint by Pope Pius XII in 1946, becoming the first U.S. “Along the way, Francesca proved herself to be an entrepreneur of the 19th century, probably one of the best ever.”Ĭabrini, who was naturalized as a United States citizen in 1909, died in 1917. She was a social activist who championed the empowerment of women, the rights of immigrants at a time when women were treated as second-class citizens and immigrants even worse,” said Frank Rossi, the local casting director for the film. A Catholic nun, she moved to the United States in 1887 at the urging of Pope Leo XIII to assist the Italian immigrant population, many of whom arrived in the country but lived in poverty. The film, Cabrini, will be a biopic of Francesca Saviero Cabrini, who was later known as Frances Xavier Cabrini or simply Mother Cabrini. Hundreds of people are sought to be hired as paid extras. The life of an Italian immigrant who later founded one of the largest charitable organizations in the world will be captured in a film that includes scenes to be shot in Buffalo beginning next month.
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