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True/False Film Fest Photo Essay Series Part Four: The Music

By:AUTHOR | @MAILTOLINK

Each year, the True/False Film Festival brings documentary films, filmmakers, festival volunteers, and eager moviegoers to Columbia, Missouri. But there is another component to the festival that has become very important as well: music. Each True/False Film Festival weekend also sees an influx of bands, songwriters, musicians, and buskers: traipsing the streets and alleys of Columbia; performing indoors and outdoors; playing for large crowds in ticketed venues or for small groups of people on street corners. Most of the musicians land gigs at festival events, while some come to town merely to add their voices to the vast musical chorus that serves as a crucial underpinning to the True/False Film Festival experience. Working as a volunteer photographer for the festival, I was fortunate to be assigned a shift photographing the Saturday Musical Showcase at Café Berlin. The evening featured four acts, including the multi-instrumental vocalist Tonina, the New Creations Brass Band from New Orleans, DJ Namesake with pinkcaravan!, from St. Louis, and St. Louis-based 18andCounting with The Only Ensemble as the closing act. To learn more about the music featured during the 2018 True/False Film Festival, take a look at the True/False Film Fest website. Photos from each of the Fest’s four days can be found on the True/False Film Fest Facebook page.