It took some time but
Mark Landsman's brilliant
Kashmere Stage Band documentary
Thunder Soul is finally getting a major theatrical release on September 23, 2011. The genuinely heartwarming film about the one-off reunion of the formidable high school orchestra from Houston's Kashmere Gardens which won the coveted Audience Award at Hot Docs 2010 – despite negligible mainstream Toronto media coverage – appears to have greatly benefited from the support of co-producer
Jamie Foxx who grew up in the Dallas suburb of Terrell, Texas. It's good news for film fans and
Stones Throw Records who really got the whole ball rolling with the inclusion of a Kashmere Stage Band track on the
Funky 16 Corners compilation and followed it up with the essential retrospective reissue
Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974. Check out the trailer.
Thunder Soul trailer
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