Yearly Archives: 2012
“ISC offers more than a free dose of the Bard. The company has a canny sense of the primal relationship between actor and audience, and its shows delight in pure theatrical communion. Shakespeare outdoors means we don’t have to feel so serious about these masterpieces; they’re just sturdy stories of […]
LA TIMES: Reviews of ISC’s The Winter’s Tale and Midsummer ...
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(CNN) — Blues singer Rita Chiarelli has played every kind of venue during her award-winning career: nightclubs, music festivals, concert halls. But of all those locales one remains unforgettable: the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Chiarelli, an Ontario native, went to Angola with the intention of playing solo for the […]
CNN Interview: Blues singer Rita Chiarelli collaborates with Louisiana prison ...
Rita Chiarelli is seen in this still from “Music From the Big House” Canadian blues singer Rita Chiarelli had been making pilgrimages to the cradle of the blues in the Mississippi when she learned about the Louisiana State Penitentiary – commonly known as Angola prison. Angola is legendary […]
Singing the blues with inmates of Louisiana’s Angola maximum security ...
THREE OAKS – Canadian musician Rita Chiarelli was planning a blues pilgrimage down U.S. Route 61, which runs from Wyoming, Minn., to New Orleans, La., when she stumbled upon a reference to Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. “It came up because it has this incredible musical history,” Chiarelli says by […]
Spending time in the big house
Blues singer Rita Chiarelli considered putting on a concert in 2010 for the inmates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Then she decided instead to collaborate with musicians among the prison’s population. The results of this idea form the basis of […]