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Col. Bruce Hampton double feature to play at Lefont Sandy Springs Theater

Col. Bruce Hampton will be celebrated on film. Photo: Melissa Ruggieri/AJC

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Col. Bruce Hampton will be celebrated on film. Photo: Melissa Ruggieri/AJC
By Melissa Ruggieri
May 15, 2017

BY MELISSA RUGGIERI/AJC Music Scene

The Lefont Film Society will pay tribute to Col. Bruce Hampton with a one-night-only double feature.

At 7:06 p.m. Monday (May 15), the Lefont Theater at 5920 Roswell Road will show Michael Koepenick’s “Basically Frightened” – the 2012 documentary about Hampton - followed by Mike Gordon’s “Outside Out,” the quirky film about the “Outstructional Video” which won an award at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2000.

Koepenick will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A session.

Tickets are $16.24 and can be purchased here . Call 404-255-0140 for more information.

Hampton, who died a few hours after his May 1 "Hampton 70" musical celebration at the Fox Theatre, will also be paid homage by Tinsley Ellis and other musicians at the June 10 Tunes from the Tombs festival at Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery .

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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.

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