Rock ’n’ roll is here to stay

It’s all rock ’n’ roll all weekend in the Library of Congress theater on Mount Pony.

Matt Barton, recorded sound curator at the LOC Audiovisual Conservation Center, selected the weekend’s four music movies because, frankly, “They are all really great.”

In addition, “None of them are on home video so it’s really an opportunity to see something you can’t get from Netflix or Block-buster,” said Barton, who also programmed special accompanying pre-show tunes for your listening pleasure in the 200-seat Packard Campus Theater.

Get a musical jolt at any of the following free shows:

Friday night at 7:30, “Ferry Cross the Mersey” (United Artists, 1965) screens featuring Gerry & the Pacemakers, Cilla Black and The Fourmost.

“Hot on the heels of the Beatles’ triumph in ‘A Hard Day’s Night,’ their friends Gerry & the Pacemakers make their own feature, shot on location in Liverpool,” Barton says.

Saturday brings a rocking double feature, starting at 2 p.m. with “Let the Good Times Roll” (Columbia, 1973) with Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Bo Diddley and Little Richard. The movie interweaves ’50 documentary footage with latter-day performance clips, Barton says, when the big music names of yesteryear reunited for a big, big show in the Big Apple.

Saturday night at 7:30 return to Mount Pony for “The Big T.N.T. Show” (American International, 1966) with The Byrds, Ray Charles, The Ronnettes, Ike & Tina Turner, Roger Miller and more. This film “seems to capture lightning in a bottle with a unique and mind-boggling combination of stars and styles presented in a single concert hosted by ‘The Man From Uncle’s’ David McAllum on November, 29, 1965 on Sunset Strip in Hollywood,” Barton says. Got all that?

“The Big T.N.T. Show” is a priceless document of the time.

Reservations: Mon-Fri 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at (540) 827-1079 ext. 79994.