Young@Heart at the Newport Film Festival

The Newport International Film Festival held their kick off event promoting their 11th annual festival this year which will begin June 3rd - June 8th 2008 in Newport RI. Our own Teresa Conners is working the festival this year who has been working to publicize and promote the success of the event. The feature film for the kick off premiere was Young at Heart, which had everyone in the audience clamoring for more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3uOOhm8Fj8&feature=related To our amazement, after the film concluded (which truly had left no one unaffected), out came the actual chorus ranging in ages 72- 89 to perform for the film's audience- and the best part about this "Chorus" is that they perform rock and roll covers from cool bands such as Cold Play, The Clash, Led Zeppelin and others. I'm not sure I closed my mouth for the entire 3.5 hours I was in the theatre watching the film and then the actual young@heart choir! I sat in my seat completely amazed and inspired by the film, and then throughout the performance my emotions got the better of me and I was out of my chair singing, dancing and clapping with the rest of audience. Great film, with all of the ingredients of a success including belly laughs, awe, inspiration, appreciation, sadness, grief, empathy, and joy...a must see!