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Ever since his beloved wife was horribly burned in an auto accident, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), a skilled plastic surgeon, has tried to develop a new skin that could save the lives of burn victims. Finally, after 12 years, Ledgard has created a skin that guards the body, but is still sen...

Cost: $13

The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.

Cost: $10-$15

A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.

Cost: $13

Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) is a failure in life but a celebrity in his own mind, hosting an imaginary talk show in his mother’s basement. When he meets actual talk show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis), he’s convinced it will provide his big break, but Langford isn’t interested in the would-be ...

Cost: $16.34

In 1988 the Japanese government drops an atomic bomb on Tokyo after ESP experiments on children go awry. In 2019, 31 years after the nuking of the city, Kaneda, a bike gang leader, tries to save his friend Tetsuo from a secret government project. He battles anti-government activists, greedy politici...

Cost: $10+

From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing th...

Cost: $10+

As Adm. James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Capt. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) monitor trainees at Starfleet Academy, another vessel from the United Federation of Planets is about to try out the planet-creating Genesis Device in a seemingly deserted portion of space. In the process, two of Kirk’s officers ...

Cost: $22

 This June, experience the epic conclusion to the Jurassic era as two generations unite for the first time. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are joined by Oscar®-winner Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Sam Neill in Jurassic World Dominion, a bold, timely, and breathtaking new adventure that spans t...

Cost: $15+

A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve (Steven McQueen) and his best girl, Jane (Aneta Corseaut), as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve...

Cost: $10-$15

If He-Man and the Masters of the Universe dropped acid with the Shaw Brothers while knocking out a martial arts horror-fantasy movie, that movie would be THRILLING BLOODY SWORD. This head-spinning slice of Taiwanese psychotronic cinema builds a movie out of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, impossibl...

Cost: $16.34

From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing th...

Cost: $16.34

The Atlanta Film Festival’s Closing Night presentation of Mija. Mija follows Doris Muñoz, who began a career in music talent management and met Jacks Haupt, an auspicious young singer, and both share the ever-present guilt of being the first American-born members of their undocumented families.

Cost: $25+

The Atlanta Film Festival’s Opening Night presentation of Bleecker Street’s dramatic thriller “892.” Starring John Boyega, the late Michael K. Williams, Nicole Beharie, and Connie Britton. The film follows a Marine war veteran who faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate ba...

Cost: $25

Categories: Film, Movies,

The Creative Conference serves to educate, entertain, engage, and enlighten by pulling back the curtain on film and television production to give our audience a peek behind the scenes at how projects get made and by whom.

This year, we offer over 25 events - 5 in-person pan...

Cost: $12+

Get glitzy, everyone! LDOD Inc. is bringing back theme nights for the first time in 2022 and celebrating the return of the Trixie dance troupe to The Plaza stage. Wear your fanciest masks and be prepared for a night of sexy dancers, screen-accurate performers, and of course, Tim Curry in a bustier. ...

Cost: $15

The microscopic alien life-form Hedorah feeds on Earth's pollution and grows into a poisonous, acid-secreting sea monster. After he sinks an oil tanker and attacks Dr. Toru Yano and his young son Ken Yano, scarring the doctor, Hedorah's toxic existence is revealed to the public. Ken Yano has visions...

Cost: $10-$15

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Cost: $13

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Cost: $13

A “behind the scenes” look into the highly competitive and cut-throat world of dog-shows through the eyes of a group of ruthless dog owners.

Cost: $13

A “behind the scenes” look into the highly competitive and cut-throat world of dog-shows through the eyes of a group of ruthless dog owners.

Cost: $13.00

Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.

Cost: $20

Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.

Cost: $20

OpeningFri., Jan. 14. Plaza Theatre

Cost: $10-$20

OpeningFri., Jan. 14. Plaza Theatre

Cost: $10-$20

OpeningFri., Jan. 14. Plaza Theatre

Cost: $10-$20

This screening is open to the public! Misanthropes is an 85 minute film produced entirely in Atlanta over the course of four years. The film features a collage of local talent, landmark locations, and a killer soundtrack. Doors to the Plaza open at 7:00, and the film begins at 7:30. There will be a ...

Cost: $10

Categories: Comedy Comedian, producer, mother, and "accidental activist" Angelina Spicer (as seen on Ellen, Conan, and Jimmy Kimmel Live) will be making a stop in Atlanta as part of her national Postpartum Revolution Road Trip tour at the Plaza Theater on July 10th. Tickets are $15 and on sale now.I...

Cost: $15

Categories: Film Focus Features’ PROFILE releases in theatres on May 14, 2021. The 45th annual Atlanta Film Festival will host an advance screening of the film at the Plaza Theatre Drive-In. PROFILE follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter throug...

Cost: $15-$50

Categories: Film Focus Features’ LIMBO releases in theatres on April 30, 2021, but the 45th annual Atlanta Film Festival will host an advance screening of the film. Recently nominated for two BAFTA® awards for Best British Film and Best Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, LIMBO is a wry...

Cost: $20

Enjoy selections from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival presented by Atlanta Film Society, The Plaza Theatre and the Sundance Institute

Cost: Varies

Enjoy selections from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival presented by Atlanta Film Society, The Plaza Theatre and the Sundance Institute with Acura, SundanceTV, ChaseSapphire, and Adobe. Visit festival.sundance.org to learn more about the Festival. This event is managed by the #SundanceSatellite partne...

Cost: Varies

Enjoy selections from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival presented by Atlanta Film Society, The Plaza Theatre and the Sundance Institute with Acura, SundanceTV, ChaseSapphire, and Adobe. Visit festival.sundance.org to learn more about the Festival. This event is managed by the #SundanceSatellite partne...

Cost: Varies

Enjoy selections from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival presented by Atlanta Film Society, The Plaza Theatre and the Sundance Institute with Acura, SundanceTV, ChaseSapphire, and Adobe.

Cost: Varies

Enjoy selections from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival presented by Atlanta Film Society, The Plaza Theatre and the Sundance Institute

Visit festival.sundance.org to learn more about the Festival.

Cost: Varies

Categories: Film The Atlanta Film Society was chosen as a Satellite Screen partner for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, January 28 – February 3. On this Zoom event, representatives from the Atlanta Film Society, Plaza Theatre and Sundance Institute will give a look at what to expect from Atlanta’s p...

Cost: Free

Categories: FILM FREAK POWER: The Ballot or the Bomb will be showing at the Plaza Theatre on December 25, 2020 through December 31, 2020. The film follows the irreverent and imaginative campaign of outlaw journalist HUNTER S. THOMPSON as well as the polarized politics of America in the midst of the ...

Cost: $15

Action U.S.A. is a fireball of stunt-fueled insanity from the year 1989. Prolific 80’s stuntman John Stewart directs this giddy 90-minute avalanche of bus jumps, helicopter chases, and dudes getting tossed out of the tallest buildings in Waco, Texas. They truly, absolutely don’t make movies like thi...

Cost: $15-$50

UNCLE FRANK Directed by Alan Ball USA, 2020, English, 95 minutes Monday, September 21, 2020, 7:40 PM — Plaza Theatre Drive-In In 1973, teenage Beth (Sophia Lillis) leaves her rural hometown to study at New York University where her estranged uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a revered literature profess...

Cost: $15-$50

DEAD BY MIDNIGHT: Y2KILL

Directed by Davi Crimmins, Eric Davis, Hannah Fierman, Greg Garrison, Torey Haas, Melissa Haas, Jay Holloway, Jenna Kanell, Anissa Matlock, Tony Reames USA, 2020, English, 96 minutes

Sunday, September 20, 2020, 10:30 PM — Dad's Garage Drive-In

Introducing DEAD BY MIDNIGH...

Cost: $15-$50

LOCALS ONLY is at the Drive-In on July 15th for a summer screening of local short films that are so bad, they're good! LOCALS ONLY is a recurring screening of thematically tied short films from Georgia’s independent filmmakers with each event having a distinct theme and focus. Featured short films...

Cost: $15-$50

WUSSY MAG + Out On Film and Plaza Atlanta present "QUEERS ON FILM" — a monthly series of LGBTQ+ arthouse and independent classics.

In March, we are proud to screen the 2015 groundbreaking film, 'Tangerine'!

Tangerine follows a transgender sex worker who discovers her boyfriend and pimp has been ...

Cost: $13

Categories: Film

Cinema for the Culture presents the Atlanta Premier of Hero by Frances-Anne Solomon. HERO is the story of Ulric Cross, who in 1941, left his small island home in Trinidad to seek his fortune, and became the RAF’s most decorated West Indian airman of WWII.

Shot in Trinidad, Ghana, UK...

Cost: $12-$20

Categories: Film Screening

CatVideoFest, is a compilation of the best cat videos shown exclusively on the big screen. Every ticket purchased raises money to help local cats in need. Screens for a very limited time and only in theaters.

Cost: $11

The blackfilm_com Screening Series ATLANTA presents...PERFECTLY SINGLE & tender Movie

Join us on Friday, February 21 7pm at The Plaza Theater for an evening of Cocktails, Hors d'oeuvres, and Live Music.

Special Screening and Q&A with the film’s Director's VanElder and Felicia Pride. Cast ...

Cost: $20-$100

elebrate Valentine’s Day with your besties at this one-night special screening of Baz Luhrmann’s classic 2001 musical, starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor Don’t miss the pre-show starring your favorite Atlanta drag starlets! Following the pre-show, we will have a quick costume contest before th...

Cost: $15

Wussy Wednesdays return with the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg classic 'Sister Act'! Come early for the musical pre-show starring Sister Brigitte Bidet, Sister Molly Rimswell, and Sister Iv Fischer. Following the preshow, we will have a quick costume contest before hosting a rare screening of this musical ...

Cost: $15

New Years Day, start the new decade with a look back at what the future looked like in the 20s, when we screen Fritz Lang's innovative and genre defining, METROPOLIS!!!

Cost: $13

December 23rd, we're happy to celebrate our 80th birthday with a screening of the first movie to ever grace our screen, THE WOMEN!!! Celebrate 80 years of fantastic cinema with us on the big screen

Cost: $13

Categories: FILM

A new documentary film being released on Veteran’s Day in Atlanta, GA at Plaza Atlanta at 7 pm (Add: 1049 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30306) is likely to ignite renewed conversations about how best to care for our returning vets and their families.



HOMEMADE is the cinemati...

Cost: $13

Categories: Lecture It is not an understatement to say that without Kevin “Coach K” Lee, today’s hip-hop landscape would not be the same. His Quality Control imprint and label has helped bring to life the careers of Migos, City Girls, Lil Yachty, Lil Baby, Rich the Kid and many, many more. Join the ...

Cost: $15

Waste is a dramatic film about the unpredictability of love! It is an untold tale of love

you don’t want to miss.

Genre: Romantic Drama Director: Ladon Whitmire Release Date: September 12th, 2019 Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST Location: The Plaza Theater

Writer, Director, and Executive Producer, La...

Cost: $16

Categories: Film

Waste is a dramatic film about the unpredictability of love! It is an untold tale of love you don’t want to miss.

Genre: Romantic Drama Director: Ladon Whitmire Release Date: September 12th, 2019 Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST Location: The Plaza Theater

Writer, Director, and Execu...

Cost: $16.00

Categories: Movie

The story of one man’s attempt to host the first ever bodybuilding/cosplay competition and the two men who drag their bodies through hell to claim the crown.

Be among the first to see the documentary in a fun and festive atmosphere. COSTUMES encouraged!

The VIP Screening will b...

Cost: $15

Still recovering from the death of his mother, seventeen-year-old Rodney dreams of escaping his small southern hometown in pursuit of following in his mother's footsteps as an award-winning pageant queen. Despite an onslaught of bullying and abuse from his step-father, step-brothers, and classmates,...

Cost: $13

Overshadowed at the time of its release by box office hit THE LOST BOYS, Katheryn Bigelow's 1987 vampire film NEAR DARK is an atmospheric horror/Western/road movie that defies convention. In a genre filled with stereotypes and century-old tropes, NEAR DARK drips with ingenuity and invention, challen...

Cost: $13

What happens to a rock and roll band when three-fifths of its members become Eastern Orthodox priests? Find out in Parallel Love — take a journey with the small-town Georgia band Luxury, who, on the cusp of success, suffer a devastating touring wreck with long-term consequences. Screening June 19 *o...

Cost: $15

WUSSY MAG + Out On Film and Plaza Atlanta present "QUEERS ON FILM" — a new monthly series of LGBTQ+ arthouse and independent classics at the Plaza Theatre.  Featuring a Q&A with some of Atlanta's most iconic house members: Andre Mizrahi (House of Mizrahi), Tony Revlon (House of Revlon), an...

Cost: $15

Shebang! A new dance party celebrating womxn and nonbinary DJ's in Atlanta.

Cost: $7-$15

Categories: Arts Agenda

Blast-Off Burlesque is super stoked to be bringing back our popular TABOOLALA series to the Plaza Atlanta!

YEEEHAW! For this show we are gonna stage a good old fashioned HO DOWN at the Plaza *LIVE STAGE SHOW* featuring Blast-Off Burlesque , the gorgeous ladies of The Candybox...

Cost: $15

Categories: Film Screening Videodrome is proud to team up with the Plaza Theatre to bring this one of a kind art show and film screening event to the city of Atlanta. Deadly Prey Gallery is a Chicago-based art gallery dedicated to hand-painted movie posters from Ghana. These posters are fascinating ...

Cost: Free-$15

Videodrome is proud to team up with the Plaza Theatre to bring this one of a kind art show and film screening event to the city of Atlanta. Deadly Prey Gallery is a Chicago-based art gallery dedicated to hand-painted movie posters from Ghana. Guaranteed to melt your mind, these posters are fascinati...

Cost: $15

Categories: film On Saturday June 8th the highly anticipated, documentary film “Organizing Is the New Cool” will make its debut in Atlanta, Georgia. Centered around the 15 year journey of social justice organization FTP Movement, and its collective mobilization to provide food, clothing, shelter and...

Cost: $15

Summertime is in the air, and we're kicking off with an alternative comic book classic, with Terry Zwigoff's GHOST WORLD!! Starring Scarlett Johansson, Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi

Cost: $11-$13

Every Friday at midnight the cult classic comes alive at the Plaza Theatre! In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their in...

Cost: $15

Please note: Tickets do not guarantee entry. This screening will be overbooked to ensure a full house. Arrive early to ensure seating.

Cost: Free

Dee is stuck in a boring job and a broken marriage in International Falls, a snowbound border town at the end of the road. Harboring a secret dream of a stand up career, Dee encounters Tim: a burned out touring comedian who feels trapped by the very life Dee desires. As these two lost souls form an ...

Cost: $13

Volatile predicaments, uncertain futures, and tenuous connections.

Cost: $13

Wondrous animated illusions exploring the vast expanses of self.

Cost: $13

Kid-sized shorts for the young and young at heart.

Cost: $6.50-$13

Related: All Atlanta Film Festival Events Join the more than 25,000 people who attend the Atlanta Film Festival each year and enjoy a variety of documentaries, shorts, narratives, animated films, and more. Now in its fourth decade, the weeklong fest — one of only two-dozen Academy Award-qualifying...

Cost: Free-$125+

Recovering from the death of his mother, 17-year-old Rodney dreams of escaping his small southern hometown to follow in her footsteps as an award-winning pageant queen. Despite an onslaught of bullying and abuse from his family and peers, Rodney calls upon a unique cast of southern characters to hel...

Cost: $13

In the rugged wilderness of Appalachia, the members of an isolated community of Pentecostal snake handlers led by Pastor Lemuel (Walton Goggins) risk their lives to attest themselves before God. Lemuel's daughter Mara (Alice Englert) prepares for her upcoming wedding to the young believer her father...

Cost: $50

The world of fashion is incredibly exclusive, but no tier is more elite than that of haute couture. It's a restrictive group that can only be joined with the express permission of an official French fashion organization. If they don't approve you, you can't use their label. Chanel, Givenchy, Dior - ...

Cost: $13

After losing her beloved mother Vera in a tragic accident, 14-year-old Sam has taken on the responsibility of looking after her father and two little brothers. One morning as she rushes to school, a speeding truck causes Sam to meet a similar untimely end. With the help of her oddball guardian angel...

Cost: $13

Solitary meditations pressing at the barriers of isolation.

Cost: $13

Related: All Atlanta Film Festival Events Join the more than 25,000 people who attend the Atlanta Film Festival each year and enjoy a variety of documentaries, shorts, narratives, animated films, and more. Now in its fourth decade, the weeklong fest — one of only two-dozen Academy Award-qualifying...

Cost: Free-$125+

A deliciously twisted comedy set in a demented, timeless suburbia where every adult wears braces on their straight teeth, couples coordinate meticulously pressed outfits, and coveted family members are swapped in more ways than one in this competition for acceptance.

Cost: $13

Violet (Elle Fanning) is a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. Driven by a pop-fueled soundtrack, TEEN SPIRIT is a visceral ...

Cost: $13

Related: All Atlanta Film Festival Events Join the more than 25,000 people who attend the Atlanta Film Festival each year and enjoy a variety of documentaries, shorts, narratives, animated films, and more. Now in its fourth decade, the weeklong fest — one of only two-dozen Academy Award-qualifying...

Cost: Free-$125+

A lonely woman (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), recently separated from her husband, visits a bewitching London department store in search of a dress that will transform her life. She?s fitted with a perfectly flattering, artery-red gown?which, in time, will come to unleash a malevolent curse and unstoppab...

Cost: $13

Meet Jonathan Agassi, a gay Israeli porn star with a worldwide following. Diving into his fantastical life, this intimate documentary explores the highest highs and lowest lows of one of the world's most famous adult entertainers. Behind the veil of fame, Agassi shares a loving yet complicated bond ...

Cost: $13

Related: All Atlanta Film Festival Events Join the more than 25,000 people who attend the Atlanta Film Festival each year and enjoy a variety of documentaries, shorts, narratives, animated films, and more. Now in its fourth decade, the weeklong fest — one of only two-dozen Academy Award-qualifying...

Cost: Free-$125+

Little Woods, North Dakota, a fracking boomtown well beyond its prime. Ollie (Tessa Thompson) is trying to survive the last few days of her probation after getting caught illegally running prescription pills over the Canadian border. But when her mother dies, she is thrust back into the life of her ...

Cost: $13

The FSU College of Motion Pictures Arts presents a showcase of eight short student films followed by a panel discussion with representatives from the College. Ranked by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the top 25 film schools in the country, FSU College of Motion Picture Arts produces student films ...

Cost: RSVP

Related: All Atlanta Film Festival Events Join the more than 25,000 people who attend the Atlanta Film Festival each year and enjoy a variety of documentaries, shorts, narratives, animated films, and more. Now in its fourth decade, the weeklong fest — one of only two-dozen Academy Award-qualifying...

Cost: Free-$125+

Tailo is a cab driver who runs a small and mildly profitable extortion ring. When Sailo, his wild card younger brother, decides to branch out on his own he inadvertently unleashes a trail of destruction. Suddenly Tailo's livelihood is under threat by both cops and crime lords and he must pull out al...

Cost: $13

Bold works and bolder heroines reckon with the world around them.

Cost: $13

Related: All Atlanta Film Festival Events Join the more than 25,000 people who attend the Atlanta Film Festival each year and enjoy a variety of documentaries, shorts, narratives, animated films, and more. Now in its fourth decade, the weeklong fest — one of only two-dozen Academy Award-qualifying...

Cost: Free-$125+

Dick died last night, and Zeke and Earl don't want anybody finding out how. That's too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama.

Cost: $13

Ed Hemsler (John Lithgow) spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner (Blythe Danner) spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other's stuf...

Cost: $13

Join us and the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau for the world premieres of ?Music Voyager? episodes 5 & 6 that feature yours truly?the Atlanta Film Festival?as well as the Plaza Theatre, Dad?s Garage, Paris on Ponce, Karen Anderson & Tiny Doors, Atlanta United and more! Georgia

Cost: Free with RSVP

Related: All Atlanta Film Festival Events Join the more than 25,000 people who attend the Atlanta Film Festival each year and enjoy a variety of documentaries, shorts, narratives, animated films, and more. Now in its fourth decade, the weeklong fest — one of only two-dozen Academy Award-qualifying...

Cost: Free-$125+

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile

Cost: $13

Miles from the nearest power grid, Lemon Cassidy scratches out a humble living in an isolated Appalachian farming community. Her life is tossed into chaos when two men from the oldest family on the mountain hold her son hostage until she can settle a debt her missing husband owes to their cold-heart...

Cost: $13

When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina, the trauma of the past bleeds into the present. Despite inconsistencies in the case, local officials quickly rule Lennon?s death a suicide, but his mother, Claudia, believes Lennon was lynched and begins a painst...

Cost: $13

Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir broke records and barriers on her way to become the first Division I athlete to play basketball while wearing hijab. When a controversial ruling ends her chances at playing professionally, she re-examines her faith and identity as a Muslim American.

Cost: $13

Want to join us after the screening of THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge for farm-to-table eats? Select the FILM and PARTY ticket at checkout. The After-Party is open to Producer, Sponsor, Press, All-Access, Weekend 1 and Filmmaker badge-holders and FILM & PARTY ticket-hold...

Cost: $13-$23

Related: All Atlanta Film Festival Events Join the more than 25,000 people who attend the Atlanta Film Festival each year and enjoy a variety of documentaries, shorts, narratives, animated films, and more. Now in its fourth decade, the weeklong fest — one of only two-dozen Academy Award-qualifying...

Cost: Free-$125+

When the wealthy patriarch of a family dies, they discover a rather unusual request in his will...

Cost: $13

The definition of "cool" can be summed up by the name Miles Davis. The quintessential Renaissance Man known for his restless artistic aesthetic, Davis is widely regarded as one of the most innovative, influential and highly respected figures in music. Having changed the course of music five or six t...

Cost: $13