Rita Chiarelli - These Four Walls

Canadian audiences know Hamilton’s Rita Chiarelli as a powerful performer of the blues, with a raw, passionate voice and an unusual honesty in her approach. But that didn’t mean much to the inmates of Louisiana State Penitentiary. The infamous prison known as Angola lies along the legendary Highway 61, and is one of the birthplaces of the blues. It was a kind of pilgrimage that led Chiarelli to the prison where Leadbelly was once an inmate. Over the course of ten years, Chiarelli developed relationships wit