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February 12th, 2014
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Wilbert Rawlins, Jr., one of the band directors featured in The Whole Gritty City, in the WWOZ. Photo by Briana Prevost.
The Whole Gritty City is a feature-length documentary, in which the directors of three New Orleans high school marching bands steer their students around the lures and dangers of the streets. It debuted last fall at the New Orleans Film Festival, and now it will have its national television premiere on CBS' 48 Hours Presents, Saturday, February 15, 8-10pm (WWL-TV in greater New Orleans).
If you're going to Krewe du Vieux, set that DVR!
And here's the film's trailer: