Music From the Big House Trailer (2010)

The trailer for Music From the Big House.

From acclaimed director Bruce McDonald, and Oscar nominated producer team, 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 to be swept away by one of Blues’ most soulful pilgrim daughters who is finding out if music really is an escape.