The New Orleans Film Festival is embracing music in a big way this year, not only with a series of music-related film screenings, but also pairing the movies with live performances by local and international artists.
The gospel group Electrifying Crown Seekers will sing before and after Rejoice and Shout—a documentary about the history of gospel music—which will be screened for free on Tuesday, October 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the Ashe Cultural Community Center.
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Jack Spratt will rap before Beatboxing: The Fifth Element of Hip Hop on Wednesday, October 19 at 7:45 p.m. at the CAC.
Gina Forsyth will sing and play before the showing of The Swell Season, a film about a couple of talented unknown artists who grapple with fame when a song they wrote for a movie soundtrack wins them an Oscar Award.
Phil DeGruy will do his best impression of guitarist Tony Green to open the screening of Who the Hell Is Tony Green? The film starts at noon Saturday, October 15 at Second Line Stages (800 Richard Street). DeGruy will also perform before A Jazzman’s Jazzman: the Gerry Carruthers Story, a claymation mockumentary playing Sunday, October 16 at Second Line Stages at 4:30 p.m.
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Thiernon Dioubate, a Guinean master of the balafon and member of Kora Connection, performs before Benda Bilili, a film about Zairian street musicians playing at 7 p.m. Sunday, October 16 at Zeitgeist.
Saxophonist Charles Ferrand will be playing before Live at Preservation Hall: Louisiana Fairytale, a documentary about the collaboration between the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and My Morning Jacket. It screens Monday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Prytania Theatre, and again without Ferrand’s accompaniment Thursday, October 20 at 9:20 at Canal Place.
Finally, blues singer Rita Chiarelli will perform before Music from the Big House, a documentary in which she travels to Louisiana to visit musicians in Angola State Penitentiary. The screening is Tuesday, October 18 at 8 p.m. at the CAC.
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