Trailer/Poster – “Music From The Big House” (Prison Blues)
From acclaimed director Bruce McDonald, the documentary is called Music From The Big House, and centers on Rita Chiarelli, an award-winning Canadian blues singer, who decides to make a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues – the Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Prison. And the film is what resulted. Check out its Facebook page, HERE, and its website HERE. A fall release date is planned…):
The Documentary
From acclaimed director Bruce McDonald, teaming with an Emmy and Oscar nominated documentary producer, comes a rare and exclusive musical journey. Rita Chiarelli, an award-winning recording artist, has decided to take a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues—Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Prison. She never imagined that her love of the blues would lead her to play with inmates serving life sentences for murder, rape and armed robbery.
In what was once the bloodiest prison in America, inmates relatives will be invited to listen alongside other prisoners, to hear remarkable voices singing stories of hope and redemption. Let yourself be swept away by one of Blues’ most soulful pilgrim daughters who is finding out if music really is an escape.
It’s time to make a new soundtrack.
