Beautiful People is a documentary filmed in Dempsey’s Pub, in the East Village in Manhattan. Since 1998, Dempsey’s has been host to an Irish trad session every Tuesday night, and this documentary looks at the music and the people that make it. The film focuses on ten of the session’s members, highlighting their diversity in what draws them together for this common interest.

Director Elzbieta Szoka says that, on walking into Dempsey’s, she was “struck immediately by its dreamlike atmosphere....After listening to their performances and talking to some of the musicians I knew we had something very precious and unique to work on.”

In the film,  ten members of the longest running traditional Irish music group in New York City talk about not only their interest in Irish traditional music but offer a look inside their lives to try and find what draws them towards this activity. An Asian American that plays the fiddle, a charismatic twenty one-year-old singer/guitarist, an 84-year-old Italian-American accordionist, and a 77-year-old woman that recently graduated from the police academy, exemplify the diversity of the group.

 

A trailer can be seen on the website at http://www.beautifulpeopledocfilm.com

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