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Bus Barn Stage Company proudly announces a sneak preview of a film by Board member Michael Afendakis entitled DELTA RISING, A BLUES DOCUMENTARY on August 22 and 23, starting at 7:30 PM. The evening also includes a pre-show performance by Chris Cotton, SF blues musician, and closes with a discussion with filmmaker Michael Afendakis.
Set in Clarksdale, Miss, the film deftly explores the origins and influences of the blues style in what many consider the "home" of the blues, a place that gave us the likes of Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. Clarksdale has long been a mecca for rock and blues musicians, which is why actor Morgan Freeman started his own club there, calling it Ground Zero. DELTA RISING features interviews with Morgan Freeman and Willie Nelson, woven together with music of regional blues musicians and fascinating anecdotes about cotton picking, front porch parties and drinking corn whiskey, not to mention more serious elements of the blues such as poverty, depression and its racial overtones. See DELTA RISING now before it hits the festival circuit!
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