Daily Archives: June 29, 2012
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 […]