Muneera Sallies’ drama follows a young man who tries to unite his fractured community by restoring a blues Christmas choir band. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief South Africa’s National Film ...

The story of how Muireann Bradley got signed to a record label at the tender age of 13 reads like the opening act of a biopic about a future pop superstar. As a young lass growing up in Ballybofey, a ...

Twenty years after a bitter rivalry tears a tight-knit Cape Malay community apart, the ghosts of the past threaten to consume a whole new generation in Muneera Sallies’ “Old Righteous Blues,” a story ...

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A young man is doing his best to keep the old blues alive. “I like the blues music of the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s and ’50s,” said Jontavious Willis, acoustic guitarist and singer, during a recent phone ...

South African has chosen Muneera Sallies’s drama Old Righteous Blues to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards, the country’s National Film and Video ...

What happened to the profoundly influential blues musician Robert Johnson at a crossroads near Dockery Farms, Mississippi, when he was on his way to seek opportunity in Memphis? Blues legend has it ...

However, on IV, released in 1971, Led Zeppelin were ready to explore blues more curiously and with more historical closeness. The fourth studio album closes with “When The Levee Breaks,” which begins ...