Music Films (South)

Firehouse Women
Firehouse Women
1998 | 28mins
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Firehouse Women
1998 | 28mins
A half-hour 1998 film by Ellen Walter about a North Carolina firehouse that’s been converted into a restaurant and the women who sing gospel music there.
BANJO TALES with Mike Seeger
BANJO TALES with Mike Seeger
2012 | 57mins
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BANJO TALES with Mike Seeger
2012 | 57mins
In 2009, filmmaker Yasha Aginsky accompanied the great old-time musician Mike Seeger and his wife Alexia on recording trips through the Southeastern United States.A tireless…
Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering
Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering
2006 | 18mins
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Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering
2006 | 18mins
Filmmaker Stan Woodward stopped by a festival with people demonstrating horse and mule farming near the town of Blackville, South Carolina.
Doc and Merle
Doc and Merle
1986 | 58mins
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Doc and Merle
1986 | 58mins
Note: Folkstreams has taken down the stream for Doc & Merle at the request of the filmmaker.   Doc & Merle  reaches deep into the relationship between Doc and Merle…
Dedans Le Sud de la Louisiane
Dedans Le Sud de la Louisiane
1972 | 45mins
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Dedans Le Sud de la Louisiane
1972 | 45mins
A travelogue study of Cajun and Creole music and culture, circa 1972: a mythical land, its people, their ancient French language and most of all their wonderful musical…
Louisiana Blues
Louisiana Blues
1992 | 55mins
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Louisiana Blues
1992 | 55mins
A look at Cajun and Zydeco music that was started in Louisiana. Many artists are featured in the film.
Sacred Soul
Sacred Soul
2021 | 32mins
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Sacred Soul
2021 | 32mins
Eleven groups in eight days. A marathon recording session in a makeshift storefront studio in a 100-year-old building in the tiny Eastern North Carolina town of Fountain. Once the…
Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician
Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician
1975 | 30mins
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Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician
1975 | 30mins
Singing Stream
Singing Stream
1986 | 57mins
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Singing Stream
1986 | 57mins
The story of a gifted African American family from the rural South. With interviews and stories, and scenes from daily life, reunions, gospel concerts, and church services, the…
Cajun Country
Cajun Country
1991 | 56mins
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Cajun Country
1991 | 56mins
Alan Lomax's wonderful documentary about the bayous of Louisiana which have combined French, German, West Indian, native American and hillbilly ingredients into a unique cultural…
Cradle is Rocking
Cradle is Rocking
1968 | 12mins
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Cradle is Rocking
1968 | 12mins
George "Kid Shiek" Colar and the Olympia Brass Band are featured in this rare film about New Orleans Jazz, directed by Frank DeCola and photographed by Tom Davenport.
Born for Hard Luck
Born for Hard Luck
1976 | 29mins
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Born for Hard Luck
1976 | 29mins
A film portrait of the last Black medicine-show performer, Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson, with harmonica songs, tales of hoboing, buckdances, and a live medicine-show performance.
Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
1978 | 17mins
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Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
1978 | 17mins
In 1979 Keir Cline shot footage at the Tenth Annual National Hollerin’ Contest in Spivey’s Corner, a small crossroads community in southeastern North Carolina. The festival had…
Sonny Terry: Shoutin' the Blues
Sonny Terry: Shoutin' the Blues
1969 | 5mins
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Sonny Terry: Shoutin' the Blues
1969 | 5mins
Shot in 1969, SHOUTIN' THE BLUES is a one shot, one story and one song short film of harmonica great, Sonny Terry. Seated in a motel room on Broadway in Oakland, California where…
Free Show Tonite
Free Show Tonite
1983 | 58mins
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Free Show Tonite
1983 | 58mins
Presents a nostalgic tribute to the American medicine shows of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shows a re-creation of a typical medicine show by veteran performers,…

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