Los Angeles Premiere! MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSE, 2010, June 13, 2012

Wednesday, June 13 – 7:30 PM
Los Angeles Premiere! MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSE, 2010, 90 min. Dir. Bruce McDonald. Rita Chiarelli, Canada's “Queen of the Blues,” takes a pilgrimage to the genre’s birthplace: Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary, aka Angola Prison, once the bloodiest prison in America. Rita's trip turns into a historic jailhouse tour-de-force as she plays and riffs with inmates serving life sentences, and draws striking revelations from them. Guided by Chiarelli's ebullient personality, a remarkable story of hope and a quest for forgiveness comes to the fore in Bruce McDonald’s moving documentary about the power of music to those both free and behind bars. Blues performance and discussion following the film with Rita Chiarelli.
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