Blues on Beale

[Available Feb. 10 on various VOD platforms.] Larry Lancit's highly entertaining, captivating, inspirational, informative, insightful, well-paced, 80-minute, 2020 documentary in which 232 talented and passionate challengers from seventeen countries, including Justina Lee Brown (Switzerland), Horojo Trio (Canada), Bluzy Threesome (Croatia), Hector Anchondo (USA), Johnny Wheels and the Swamp Donkeys (USA), Nikki D & the Sisters of Thunder (USA), Mojo Parker (USA), Sandra Bouza (Canada), Felix Slim (USA), Memphissippi Sounds (USA), Akeem Kemp Band (USA), The Pitbull of Blues Band (USA), Bad Temper Joe (Germany), the Jose Ramirez Band (USA), Ray Beadle (Australia), Micah Ian Kesselring (USA), Aaron Pollock (Australia), and Jamell Richardson Band (USA), compete in the 36th International Blues Challenge in 20 clubs on Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn., over five days in January and February 2020 and consists of archival film clips and photographs and commentary by blues singers (such as Janiva Magness, Shemekia Copeland, Bobby Rush, Cam Kimbrough, Damion Pearson, Annika Chambers, Paul Deslauriers, and William Ferris, Ph.D.), president & CEO Blues Barbara Newman, Blues Foundation production consultant Joe Whitmer, Muddy Waters Foundation founder & CEO Mercy Morganfield, Alligator Records founder & president Bruce Iglauer, historian Richard Folsom and Way of the Blues author, and music celebrities Castro Coleman and Shakira S'Aida.
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