Lisa Cortés’ Sundance opening night documentary LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n’ roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes – he was unabashedly everything. Directed by Lisa Cortés
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Soon Come / Kenny Meez / Jah T Junior (Reggae Record Swap) | 12:00pm - 5:00pm | Launderette Records | All Ages |
God Called In Sick / Death Pose / Brandish | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
Kause / BLCKTEETH | 7:30pm | Milkboy Philly | 21+ |
Raveena / Renao / Lightning Bug | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
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Corpus Offal / Mephitic Corpse | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
Cash Langdon / Hemlock / Ava Mirzadegan | 8:00pm | The Khyber | 21+ |
Squid | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
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Eighth House / Lying Season / Kenny 3 The Return / Lurch | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
Andrew Duhon / Gabe Parsons | 8:00pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
Onilu (Chad Taylor – percussion, Kevin Diehl – percussion, Joe Chambers(!) – percussion) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
Shilpa Ray | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
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Rivers of Nihil / Holy Fawn / Inter Arma / Glacial Tomb | 6:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
Peacetime Consumers / Sparrow Steeple / Nada Finger | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
Halo Bite / Bite the Hand / Nysa / Human Error | 7:00pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
Lauren Calve / Rachel Ana Dobken | 8:00pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |