Location: New Haven Free Public Library
133 Elm St.
New Haven, CT
Open To: General Public
Admission: Free
Event Description: Jazz man Willie Ruff retraces the trajectory of a rapidly eroding form of congregational singing out of Scotland and into both African-American and Native American religious song traditions. Documentary by Willie Ruff and Gretchen Berland.
Part of NHdocs, the New Haven Documentary Film Festival. Presented with support from Whitney Humanities Center; Program in Public Humanities at Yale; Yale Program for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies; Yale Film and Media Studies Program; Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale; Yale Summer Session, Yale Film Study Center.