FRI - SUN, FEB 14 - 16 / 7 pm
WED - THU, FEB 19 - 20 / 7 pm
Directed by Chris Simon & Maureen Gosling
2013, USA, 93 min
If you liked the film Muscle Shoals you’ll love This Ain’t No Mouse Music, especially since it received a standing ovation at its Hot Docs premiere. Mouse music is music that is not real or authentic. Jam packed with stunning performances, this is the story of independent label Arhoolie Records. As a teenager in 1947, Chris Strachwitz saw a film that would change his life forever: New Orleans, starring Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong. Since then, his life has been a relentless quest to record the best of American folk music roots—New Orleans jazz, blues, creole, cajun, alley music, zydeco, tex-mex and norteño. A true detective of sounds, Strachwitz is the legendary founder of Arhoolie Records, the label that brought rural American music out of the shadows and into the limelight.
—HOT DOCS
This Ain’t No Mouse Music is sponsored by the Winnipeg Folk Festival
