The Wild West Bank Sound
The Wild West Bank Sound
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Minneapolis' West Bank comes alive with stories of music and migration in this multi-sensory trip.
Minneapolis’ West Bank neighborhood was once an epicenter of the music world. From the early 1960s, this perennial immigrant landing strip proved an irresistible draw for artists from far and wide, an ever-evolving cauldron of creativity and cultures. This film is a funky flashback, bursting at the seams with memories, all visualized with rare and rich archival photography, footage, and ephemera.
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The Wild West Bank Sound is a local public television program presented by Twin Cities PBS
The Wild West Bank Sound
The Wild West Bank Sound
Preview: Special | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Minneapolis’ West Bank neighborhood was once an epicenter of the music world. From the early 1960s, this perennial immigrant landing strip proved an irresistible draw for artists from far and wide, an ever-evolving cauldron of creativity and cultures. This film is a funky flashback, bursting at the seams with memories, all visualized with rare and rich archival photography, footage, and ephemera.
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- So much music started on the West Bank.
- The West Bank was a little world of its own.
- It was like a carnival.
We're all part of this weird circus, but we were all creating it, - A rowdy, wild, party every night.
- The West Bank was music.
- Art, Attitude and activism.
- It was a fantasy come true.
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A thriving jug band scene persists to the present day on Minneapolis' West Bank. (48s)
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Eve MacLeish recounts fond memories photographing the West Bank. (1m 15s)
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