Music from the Big House

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Rita Chiarelli, an award-winning recording artist, has decided to take a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the bluesLouisiana 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.

Variety
John Anderson
Time OutC
Derek Adams
DVD TalkC
Ian Jane
Toronto StarB
Peter Howell
Village Voice
Benjamin Mercer