Rita Chiarelli

CNN Interview: Blues singer Rita Chiarelli collaborates with Louisiana prison ...

July 6, 2012 in Rita Chiarelli by STAFF

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 ...

July 6, 2012 in Rita Chiarelli by STAFF

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 […]