Two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA, Shut Up and Sing) follows Grammy-nominated R&B dynamo Sharon Jones in the most courageous year of her life. Jones is no stranger to challenge, for years her music career struggled as she was kept in the wings by a music industry that branded her “too short, too black, too fat.” After decades of working odd jobs, from a corrections officer to a wedding singer, Sharon had a middle-aged breakthrough after joining forces with Brooklyn R&B outfit The Dap Kings. Miss Sharon Jones! follows Jones over the course of an eventful year in which she received a cancer diagnosis, fights to hold her career together and debuts a new hotly-anticipated album. Audiences will rejoice in this triumphant crowd-pleaser that captures an irrepressible human spirit as she battles back to where she belongs: centre stage.
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Co-presented by AfroToronto, Congress of Black Women of Canada - Ontario Region (North York), A Different Booklist, The Nikki Clarke Show, Ontario Black History Society, Sonic Boom and TD Toronto Jazz Festival.