All-star cast of who’s who in the music industry pay tribute to iconic concert promoter
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Ron Delsener Presents” showing June 13-19 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres.
“Ron Delsener Presents” features an all-star cast of the who’s who in the music industry, including Bruce Springsteen, Cher, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Roger Waters, Jimmy Buffet, Jon Bon Jovi, Steven Van Zandt, Bette Midler and more.
“Ron Delsener Presents” is equal parts all-access pass to New York’s greatest gigs featuring some of the iconic artists who performed in them; and a portrait of the singular figure who brought these shows together — rock concert promoter and impresario Ron Delsener.
In a career spanning sixty years, concert promoter and impresario Ron Delsener was the name behind virtually every major contemporary music concert in New York City for generations. From promoting The Beatles at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, to bringing David Bowie to Carnegie Hall and Patti Smith to the Palladium, to somehow convincing Simon and Garfunkel to bury the hatchet and play the biggest concert of all time in Central Park, Ron Delsener was behind it all.
Through a portrait of a mercurial and relentless showman, “Ron Delsener Presents” takes us behind-the-curtain through the last half century of the live music business, chronicling the tactics that drove live performance from disorganized, low-fi nightclubs to international tours, arenas, stadiums, and, eventually, into a global empire. A transformation that Delsener is in many ways responsible for. Working in a business he helped to create Ron Delsener now in the later stages of his life, still has his hand in the game. Sure, he could stop — he maybe even should but Ron doesn’t know how.
“Ron Delsener Presents” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres June 13-19. Showtimes will be Friday and Saturday, June 13 and 14 at 7:00 p.m.; Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 15, 17, 18 and 19 at 4:00 p.m.; and Monday, June 16 at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.