Festival Express is showing at Visions Cinema in D.C. from September 3 to 9. From their e-mail newsletter:

"A backstage pass to the wildest and woolliest ride in the history of the music...Brilliantly captures the extraordinary Joplin character in all her self- effacing glory and is the only piece of film footage like that ever to have surfaced!"
— Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle

In 1970, a train journeyed across Canada carrying some of the greatest rock bands of the time. Janis Joplin, The Band, The Grateful Dead, Delaney & Bonnie, Buddy Guy, Ian & Sylvia and others lived (and partied) together for five days, giving concerts where and when they stopped. The train was called the Festival Express. Festival Express might just have been the greatest, and certainly the longest, non-stop rock n' roll party ever. Nicknamed "The Million Dollar Bash" by Rolling Stone magazine, Festival Express was designed to capitalize on the then-burgeoning craze for multi-day, talent-heavy music festivals.