Dixie Chicks

Shut Up And Sing

The Dixie Chicks, who recently postponed their performance at the Frank Erwin Center from October 1 to December 4, have made several changes to their “Accidents and Accusations” tour in order to make time to promote their newest project, a documentary film based on their experiences in the last few years.

According to the Chicks’ Web site, “Dixie Chicks – Shut Up and Sing”, a powerful documentary from two-time Academy Award®- winning director Barbara Kopple (“Harlan County USA”, “American Dream”) and director Cecilia Peck, receives its world premiere as a Gala Presentation at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival in September.
 
With unprecedented access to the behind-closed-doors world of celebrities in the center of a political and pop culture storm, “Dixie Chicks – Shut Up and Sing” provides a view of the real and raw emotional roller coaster of three strong women thrust into the turbulent center of a national debate. This is the first time in 14 years that the Festival has featured a documentary as a Gala Presentation.
  
“Dixie Chicks – Shut Up and Sing” travels with the Chicks, from their peak of popularity as the national anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment, and on through the days, months and years of mayhem. The film follows the lives and careers of the Chicks through the writing and recording of their first album since “the incident” – and three years of political attack, making music, birthing babies, bonding, death threats, and laughter. At the end, the film presents a complete reconsideration of who people think they are, who they want to be and who, ultimately, they really are as women, as public figures, and as musicians.