Montpelier-based filmmaker Vic Guadagno will host the premiere of the music documentary, Charlie Loves Our Band, on Thursday, August 4th at the Savoy Theater. Tickets are $10.00 and can be purchased at the Savoy Theater website. The event will begin with a one-hour musical performance by Middlebury singer-songwriter Patrick Fitzsimmons. Patrick was the drummer for the band From Good Homes, which the film chronicles through footage Guadagno shot in the late 1980's and 1990's, current concert footage and interviews with band-members, fans and music-industry professionals.

Charlie Loves Our Band is a feature documentary that tells the story of the band From Good Homes. In the 1980's, one hour west of New York city, three childhood friends (Patrick Fitzsimmons, Brady Rymer and Todd Sheaffer) crafted a style of music, influenced by rock & roll of the 60's & 70's, energized by the culture and energy of the 80's and rooted in American storytelling and folk music. With the addition of Jamie Coan and Dan Myers in the early 1990's, From Good Homes created a unique musical style originally identified as Hick- Pop, and produced several albums, two with RCA Records.

Told by filmmaker, friend and former tour-manager, Vic Guadagno, this film showcases the incredible songwriting of From Good Homes. Guadagno moved to Vermont in 2011 and founded Bright Blue Ecomedia, whose mission is to "communicate transitional strategies through film and digital media that will enhance, enrich and sustain the human cultures and the ecological systems on which they rely". He has been awarded three New England Emmys.

The evening is sponsored by The Vermont Production Collective.

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