Port Townsend Blues Festival (2024) Jamine Campbell Videography https://jamainecampbell.com

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00:00Good luck to all of you.

00:02You are amazing.

00:04You are amazing.

00:06Yes you are.

00:12What?

00:16So do you write music?

00:18Of course.

00:20And I just saw you performing.

00:22Tell me a little bit about how you

00:24write your music.

00:27It's done by inspiration.

00:29So I don't have any

00:31contrite songs usually that I

00:33just sit down and say, hey, I'm going to write me a song

00:35about. Nah, it just

00:37comes from inspiration, sometimes in

00:39dreams and other ways. So that's the main

00:41way that I write songs.

00:43You know, you have to be inspired.

00:53Tell me a little bit about your company.

00:55Well,

00:57I married my

00:59wife after I did

01:01an acting degree

01:03up at the University of Victoria

01:05in British Columbia.

01:07She was studying

01:09there too and

01:11we went up to her community,

01:13which is the Guasla-Nahuatl Nation

01:15up at the top of Vancouver Island.

01:17And her people are just rife with beautiful

01:19stories and mythology and songs

01:21and a lot of really important language

01:23revitalization because

01:25colonization really

01:27ran amok on

01:29their people and devastated a lot

01:31of their practices and traditions and

01:33a lot of people have been holding on tight to them

01:35and reinstilling them in the youth.

01:37So a lot of elders

01:39asked me to help tell the stories

01:41and trusted me with the stories and

01:43I started making films to try to help preserve

01:45some of those things and to build them up and

01:47amplify them.

01:49And one story led to another, led to another

01:51and then I started traveling

01:53all over the province helping other people

01:55in other nations do the same thing

01:57and before you know it I just, you know,

01:59I wasn't teaching anymore and I was doing film work

02:01full time. So I dedicate

02:03most of my talents to

02:05indigenous content up

02:07up north in Canada there

02:09and then some

02:11good mostly African-American

02:13content here to the blues down here.

02:15Nice. Yeah. Thanks for being

02:17on my show. Oh hey, well there we go.

02:19World class. I've been called the songbird

02:21of a generation but

02:23It's true.

02:25It's true. I'm a videographer

02:27I have Germaine Campbell

02:29videography and in 2018

02:31I was doing a little

02:33barter with Mary, the

02:35organizer here and she said if I make some

02:37films and capture the essence of this

02:39wonderful phenomenon that

02:41I could get free admission

02:43here and come hang out and we've been doing it

02:45ever since and I brought my whole family

02:47in. Hello kids and we'll be coming back

02:49as long as they let us. And this year

02:51this year you showed

02:53a video before that will probably be released

02:55will be released soon of a video

02:57of just what this place is about

02:59capturing all the magic and stuff and before

03:01that we thought maybe this was just a scam

03:03this has been a scam for, you know, six

03:05seven years just to get, just to come here but

03:07no, he proved it. He proved it.

03:09Not even any batteries

03:11in the camera.

03:13Hold on a second, a little closer here.

03:15It's a great scheme.

03:17I respect it.

03:19I respect it.

03:21We got to watch it in the participants concert which is on Thursday

03:23night when all the participants get to come up and

03:25perform but we started with his filming, it was like

03:27a little premiere, it was a special thing

03:29for all of us to see

03:31it showed so eloquently

03:33what this place is and all the capturing the power

03:35and the humor and the fun

03:37and the family and the music and

03:39the spirituality

03:41all of it, you captured it all there, it's really

03:43really great.

03:45And I'm in it.

03:49And what's your film called?

03:51Well, I don't know

03:53what I, what will it

03:55be called?

03:57Fort Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival.

03:59Exactly, that's what I'll call it, Fort Townsend Acoustic Blues

04:01Festival and

04:03nothing too creative but

04:05it does the job, that's what

04:07it's about. It's about 50 minutes long

04:09and I'll make a couple

04:11quick little cuts and then

04:13release it to the public, let it out to the world.

04:15And get you excited for the next year.

04:17I mean, that's the cool thing is

04:19it's like, it is kind of like, you're like, oh I can't

04:21believe it's over but then you're already thinking

04:23like, okay but it does happen.

04:25Well, that's a cherry on top.

04:27It's a consolation.

04:29It was like, Tuesday, I was like, ah shit, it's only Tuesday.

04:31Yeah, that's always, yeah, don't let it fool ya.

04:33What the fuck?

04:35Don't let Tuesdays fool ya.

04:37Hey, thanks a lot.

04:39That was fun.

04:41Just chatting.

04:43That's right. Who knows what we'll do with it

04:45but, you know, it's in the pocket.

04:47That's the most important part is

04:49to get it recorded, right?

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