Song Sung Blue, Neil Diamond Cover Band Movie To Be Shown Outdoors On Roosevelt Island At Southpoint Park - With Sweet Caroline Karaoke Too!

Image of New York City and East River Waterfront View during prior Southpoint Park Movie Night from Fresh Air Flicks

Outdoor movies return to where they belong when held on Roosevelt Island with the August 16 showing of Song Sung Blue at Southpoint Park presented by Rooftop Films. According to Rooftop Films, Song Sung Blue is:

... a beautiful documentary about two American dreamers who fought their whole lives to make people happy and to forget their problems and worries by playing the music of one of America’s great crooners. Filmmaker Greg Kohs goes backstage into the personal lives of a brave couple - from their humble beginnings over 20 years ago to the threshold of fame, from disaster to rebirth, through to the most dramatic chapters in the lives of these authentic American dreamers.

There is a special treat for all you Neil Diamond fans.

Prior to the Film YOU can perform Neil Diamond karaoke LIVE on stage:
In the spirit of Song Sung Blue, prior you can sign up to perform your favorite Neil Diamond song LIVE on the lawn in front of the full audience. Pick your favorite Diamond gem and email us at songsungblue@rooftopfilms.com --send us your name, the song you want to sing, and the best email address to be reached at and if you sign up in time you can be the lead vocalist on stage as we all sing along to Sweet Caroline, Song Sung Blue, Cracklin’ Rosie, Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon, Up on the Roof, America, Heartlight, and many more.

My Yankee fingers resist as I type this but here in the heart of the Evil Empire is an opportunity for Red Sox Nation and the Sons of Sam Horn to replicate a small part of the Fenway Park experience on Roosevelt Island and perform Sweet Caroline

In view of the brief confusion regarding RIOC's attempt to define the content of movies as either "family friendly" or not thereby refusing to permit those films that (in the opinion of a RIOC employee) are not "family friendly" to be shown at Southoint Park, Rooftop Film's advises the following:

Please note: this is a free public event, and Song Sung Blue is a beautiful and powerful documentary, but it is a serious film for adults and mature children. Please note that there is some strong language.

As stated by the film's director Greg Kohs:

The film shouldn’t be described as ‘family-friendly.’ I prefer to refer to it as ‘dysfunctional-family-friendly'.

Here is a brief interview with the director and excerpt from the movie Song Sung Blue.

You Tube Video of Slamdance interview from Current TV

Neil Diamond is currently playing at Madison Square Garden August 14-16. According to the NY Times:

Four decades into a career as the sequined king of soft rock, celebrated in his 1970s peak as much for his rakish growl and helmet of wavy hair as for hits like “Sweet Caroline” and “Song Sung Blue,” Neil Diamond is enjoying something of a career renaissance.
Always a strong concert draw, he has been making more money on the road than ever before, grossing $168 million over his last three tours, according to Billboard. And in May his 46th album on the Billboard charts, “Home Before Dark” (Columbia) — a set of stripped-down and reflective songs produced by Rick Rubin, who recorded Johnny Cash’s last releases — became his first to reach No. 1. On Tuesday, Mr. Diamond, 67, begins a four-night engagement at Madison Square Garden, part of a mostly sold-out world tour that will take him well into 2009.

So come watch Song Sung Blue at Southpoint Park. Enjoy the movie and magnificent nighttime New York City skyline and East River waterfront views.

Photo by Joergen Geerds

Click on link here to fully view the beautiful panoramic nighttime view of NYC waterfront and skyline as seen from Southpoint Park on Roosevelt Island.

For those new to Southpoint Park, take a moment when you are there to consider that these panoramic 360 degree views will be ruined forever if the proposed Louis Kahn memorial (some refer to it incorrectly as the FDR memorial) is ever built at this site.

Directions to Roosevelt Island by Tram, F train, bus or car can be found here.