Alabama Black Belt Blues Documentary Premier
Fri, Oct 23
|https://aptv.org/alabama-blackbelt-blues/
Premier Robert Clem's newest documentary, "Alabama Black Belt Blues"
Time & Location
Oct 23, 2020, 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM
https://aptv.org/alabama-blackbelt-blues/
About the Event
Alabama Black Belt Blues, a one-hour documentary produced by One State Films in partnership with Alabama Public Television (APT) will air on APT Friday, October 23 at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday October 25, 2020 at 3 p.m. The film, directed by Alabama filmmaker Robert Clem, is about the state’s African American blues tradition from the days of slavery; through the 1930s and 40s, when John and Alan Lomax were able to record hundreds of songs for the Library of Congress with the aid of Sumter County folklorist Ruby Pickens Tartt; to the present day. Funding for the film has come from the Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Chapman Foundation, Paul & Alma Fischer Education Endowment, Alabama State Council on the Arts and Alabama Humanities Foundation.
The film features a comprehensive mix of Alabama blues musicians including Vera Hall, Dock Reed, Willie King, “Birmingham” George Conner (born and raised in the Black…