Sounds of Summer

July 2–Sep. 6, 2026

Sounds of Summer returns, celebrating music in all its forms — the iconic and the intimate, the legendary and the live.

We open with the greatest band in metal falling apart in real time in Joe Berlinger’s Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Other highlights include a fresh program of rare archival footage presented by the Bob Dylan Center; and a new installment in Scott Freiman’s acclaimed series, Deconstructing The Music, with a deep dive on the sixty-year-old Beatles album Revolver.

From there, we’ll venture to a Baptist Church in California for Aretha Franklin in Amazing Grace, an Arkansas cotton farm with Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, Nick Cave at the Sydney Opera House in 20,000 Days on Earth, Woody Guthrie riding freight trains across Depression-era America in Bound for Glory, and a European Tour like no other with an intimate look at a fearless feminist and LGBTQ+ icon in Teaches of Peaches. Sounds of Summer provides everyone with a soundtrack to listen to this summer.

The excitement continues off screen: with an evening of live music with the incomparable John Pizzarelli (tickets on sale soon), and free live music every Thursday evening in Take 3 Wine Bar and Café from July 2 through Sept. 6. Be sure to check out our custom-crafted cocktail and mocktail, now pouring at Take 3 Wine Bar & Café (open Thur-Sun).

 

Sounds of Summer: Live Music in Take 3 July 2–Sep. 3, 2026 The JBFC is excited to present a series of FREE live musical performances in Take 3 Wine Bar and Café…
Amazing Grace July 16–17, 2026 July 16: Preceded by a live musical performance by Lauren Mian on starting at 5:30pm in Take 3 Wine Bar…
20,000 Days On Earth July 21–23, 2026 20,000 Days On Earth is an inventive, lyrical ode to creativity and an intimate examination of the artistic process of…
Summer Tour July 23–30, 2026 Opens June 23—Tickets on Sale Now Summer Tour is a poetic documentary that follows Jerry and Annie, a magnetic young couple devoted to the music and…
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It July 30–31, 2026 July 30: Preceded by a live musical performance by Eric Rabasa starting at 5:30pm in Take 3 Wine Bar &…
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Aug. 2–6, 2026 August 6: Preceded by a live musical performance by Jake Albi starting at 5:30pm in Take 3 Wine Bar &…
Walk the Line Aug. 2–6, 2026 August 2: Preceded by a live musical performance by Andy Kuusito starting at 12:30pm in Take 3 Wine Bar &…
Flipside Aug. 4–5, 2026 When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the…
Let's Get Lost - Followed by Live Music with John Pizzarelli Aug. 9, 2026 Join us for our third annual celebration of jazz hosted by John Pizzarelli. Pizzarelli will perform after a screening of…
Köln 75 Aug. 13, 2026 Preceded by a live musical performance by Alex Cano starting at 5:30pm in Take 3 Wine Bar & Café. More…
Pavarotti Aug. 16–19, 2026 From the filmmaking team behind the highly acclaimed documentary The Beatles: Eight Days A Week—The Touring Years, Pavarotti is a…
Teaches of Peaches Aug. 20, 2026 Preceded by a live musical performance by Christina Picciano starting at 5:30pm in Take 3 Wine Bar & Café. More…
Les Blank Shorts: The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins + A Well Spent Life Aug. 27–29, 2026 August 27: Preceded by a live musical performance by Chanese Elife starting at 5:30pm in Take 3 Wine Bar &…
Inside Llewyn Davis Sep. 3–6, 2026 Inspired by the life and work of folk singer Dave Van Ronk, Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the…
Stepping into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center Sep. 3, 2026 Screening and Discussion with Bob Dylan Center director Steven Jenkins Preceded by a live musical performance by Traveling Medicine Man with Luke Havranek starting at 5:30pm in Take 3 Wine…
Deconstructing The Music LIVE: The Beatles' Revolver July 11, 2026 In Deconstructing The Music LIVE: The Beatles’ Revolver, Scott Freiman, host of the Public Television series Deconstructing the Beatles, celebrates…
Powwow People July 7, 2026 Q&A with filmmaker and artist Sky Hopinka An historic and immersive work of cinema, Powwow People is a vérité-style documentary grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived…
Bound for Glory July 5–8, 2026 Presented on 35mm In director Hal Ashby’s (Harold and Maude) stunning portrait of folk singer Woody Guthrie, David Carradine gives a career-best performance…
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster July 2, 2026 Q&A with director Joe Berlinger followed by a reception in Take 3 Presented on director Joe Berlinger’s personal 35mm print. Preceded by a live musical performance starting at 5:30pm by Nick Chiapparino…

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