PG - Advisory: Mature Subject Matter.

Rita Chiarelli in attendance

The largest maximum security prison in the United States is the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola or The Farm. Situated on a property the size of Manhattan and surrounded on three sides by the mighty Mississippi, The Farm is where murderers, rapists, armed robbers and the dangerously mentally ill are incarcerated. It is also the home to the United States’ only inmate-operated radio station, KLSP, ‘The Station that Kicks Behind the Bricks.’

From the acclaimed director Bruce McDonald—teaming with an Emmy- and Oscar-nominated documentary producer—comes a rare and exclusive musical journey. Rita Chiarelli, a soulful, award-winning blues artist from Toronto, has decided to make a pilgrimage to the prison that once held Leadbelly and Pete Williams. In what was once the bloodiest prison in America and the birthplace of the blues, inmates and their relatives listen to remarkable voices singing stories of hope and redemption. Let yourself be swept away by one of the blues’ most soulful pilgrim daughters, who is finding out if music really is an escape.

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WHAT: Music On Film Party & Music From the Big House Screening

WHEN: Thursday, Sept 30, 2010

WHERE: Red Carpet event - 6 p.m., Stephen Ave. & 6 St. S.W.

Film Screening – 7 p.m., Globe Cinema - 617 8 Ave. S.W.

Music on Film Party – 9 p.m., Belfry Gastro House - 630 8 Ave. S.W.

The all-inclusive ticket offers exclusive access to the red carpet, the debut screening of Music From The Big House at Calgary's Globe Cinema; and admission to the Music on Film Party at Belfry Gastro House with a free drink, and an exclusive performance by film star Rita Chiarelli.