Filmmakers

Bradley Hanson is a folklorist, writer, and filmmaker living in Nashville, Tennessee. Since 2015, he has been the Director of Folklife at the Tennessee Arts Commission. From 2007 to 2014, he worked as a cultural interpreter for the Tennessee State Parks. He was given the Blanton Owen Fund Award from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in 2011 to support his fieldwork in East Tennessee with bluegrass, country, and gospel musicians. From 2007 to 2012, he produced and hosted sixty episodes of the Cumberland Trail radio show on FM station WDVX in Knoxville, Tennessee. He produced Fallen Country Star (2013), an album of songs and performances by country singer and songwriter Jim Fagan and Truth, Madness, and the Banjo (2015), an anthology of recordings by bluegrass legend Wade Hill, for Sandrock Recordings. In 2014, he created Jamboree Time, a twelve-episode documentary series telling the history of LaFollette, Tennessee’s Tennessee Jamboree radio program using archival film, recordings, photographs, and interviews with surviving musicians. He graduated from Brown University with a PhD in Ethnomusicology in 2014.