Page, Blind Boys, Piaf
Youth isn’t wasted on the young. Ellen Page, the 21 year-old star of the hit movie “Juno,” put in everything she had after landing her dream role as a smart, savvy, pregnant teen. And 23-year-old indie-rocker Thao Nguyen tells us how spending her teen years working at her mom’s laundromat honed her guitar skills. All that plus the amazing gospel sounds of the Blind Boys of Alabama.
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