Jerry Oster, New York Daily News
"There was a riot at Sing Sing prison but it was a riot of music, emotion, enthusiasm and good feelings."
Product Description
SING SING THANKSGIVING shows one of the greatest concert events ever captured on film. On a Thanksgiving day back in 1974, BB King and his full band and Joan Baez and her sister, the late Mimi Farina, spent the day with the inmates of New York’s maximum security prison, Sing Sing. This concert feature film shows everything that happened there-- including a spectactular concert. Joan Baez, B.B. King, The Voices of East Harlem, Jimmy Walker and the prison inmates combined to make music, tell stories, and more. B.B. King said that this was the best concert that he ever gave. SING SING THANKSGIVING won top awards at film festivals around the world, including New York, Chicago and London. New York's Daily News called it one of the greatest concert moments in live entertainment.
