The Ash Grove Film

PROJECT STATUS

   The Ash Grove film project began in 2008 with the videotaping of the Ash Grove’s 50th Anniversary concerts and workshops at UCLA. Through 2011 Aiyana Elliott, Sundance-award-winning daughter of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, interviewed more than thirty people associated with the Ash Grove as performers, staff, friends, supporters and patrons of the legendary club.

These materials became the core archival sources for a new team that took up the project in 2015 headed by Fred Aronow with Spencer Showalter and Samuel Curtis. They added more interviews and arrived at a rough cut of more than three hours. Fred continued work on the film, and now working with editor Chris Jones and Producer Jed Riffe there is a fine cut with a running time of 93 minutes. Adding producer Jed Riffe to the team, they are now are now working toward finishing the film.

   To complete the film, financing will be required for licensing of archival materials, legal services and technical processing. We will take every possible course that cuts costs as long as we can tell the Ash Grove's story in a way that is as dynamic and engaging as was the Ash Grove itself.