THURSDAY | FEB 5

The Price Center, 222 W. San Antonio St

6PM - OPENING NIGHT: LEADBELLY (U.S./Hays County, 2hr 6min)

A special, semicentennial screening of a stunning biopic filmed in our region

On the 50th anniversary of its release, a chronicle of the iconic life of blues legend Huddie Ledbetter: surviving the segregated South in general, and chain-gang imprisonment in particular, wielding soulful original music to win his freedom. Directed by Gordon Parks, with film production in San Marcos, Uhland, Fentress & Lockhart.

Film preceded by a live set from DJ Flash Gordon Parks, a.k.a. Jason Woods – the celebrated ethnomusicologist dubbed “Houston’s Living Encyclopedia of Music” – followed by the LEADBELLY screening, which is co-hosted by Center for Texas Music History & the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University