Congrats to WV Music Hall of Fame
South Charleston Museum program organized with WVMHF, showing two films about Charleston-born musicians.
Michael Lipton and his team did a great job organizing the first WV Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the WV Cultural Center that was broadcast on WVPBS. WVPBS also did a great job letting everyone see this landmark event. ( I was the film advisor for two of the short films about inductees - George Crumb and Hazel Dickens.)
Hopefully either/both institutions will make DVD copies of the two hour ceremony available for purchase so that people around the world who missed the broadcast can see it.Lipton has been one of the most creative arts promoters in West Virginia for several decades.
It’s really too bad that it took this long to create this institution. In 1984 several people including myself created the WV Intl. Film Festival, honoring WV’s own great filmmakers including Robert Gates, Daniel Boyd, and Ellis Dungan. Lipton has successfully navigated the bureaucracies of the WVPBS, WV Humanities Council, and other institutions to raise money to release a CD, present this induction ceremony, make a portable display, etc. I know from almost 30 years of work here and 6 years at the University of Minnesota, the largest univesity in the U.S., how difficult that can be. I am pleased that I was able to help them find films about some of the inductees and even show one at The South Charleston Museum. Now if I can only get Lipton and his supporters to support the WV Film Series at The South Charleston Museum…..
