Uncle Jessie White documentary screening

The life and music of local Detroit Blues musician, Uncle Jessie White, is told through interviews with the people who have been touched by his musical integrity and warm personality. Interwoven throughout are intimate discussions with Jessie and the footage from many performances. Archival photographs, footage from his hometown of Terry, Mississippi, interviews with family, blues historians and short news features done on him, play a large role in revealing aspects of his early life; while interviews with his family, friends, professional musicians, DJ’s, local club owners and blues museum curators and experts reveal much about his adult-professional life and how he kept the blues culture and humanity alive in Detroit during the Detroit revolution and beyond, in his home on 29th street, the Attic Bar in Hamtramck, the Soup Kitchen in Detroit, as well as Dresden, Germany.

2:00 Doors open 
2:00 – 2:30 Photo Gallery and Music 
2:15 - 2:30 Seating 
2:30 – 3:30 Documentary 
3:30 Question and Answer with co-producer Anne Marie Graham-Hudak, production director Doug Drummond, and Lois White, Jessie's daughter

ADMISSION IS FREE