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Rattlesnakes

The annual rattlesnake bagging contest at this tiny Appalachian festival includes a parade, a fair, firefighters’ contests, and a greased pig chase. A George Hornbein/Ken Thigpen…

Ballad of Frankie Silver

Ballad of Frankie Silver

Ballad of Frankie Silver

In 1833 Mrs. Frances Silver was hanged in Morganton, North Carolina, for the ax murder of her husband Charles. Tom Davenport's film explores the case through the singing and…

Sweet Is the Day

Sweet Is the Day

Sweet Is the Day

The story of the Woottens of Sand Mountain, Alabama, one of the key singing families who have helped Sacred Harp music survive and flourish for more than 150 years. The video…

Madison County Project

Madison County Project

Madison County Project

This video examines the tradition of unaccompanied ballad singing in Madison County, North Carolina and how both documentary work and the power of family and community have…

Being A Joines

John E. "Frail" Joines was a master tale teller from Wilkes County, N. C., on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His hunting tales, stories from World War II, and…

Dreadful Memories

Dreadful Memories

Dreadful Memories

Born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, Gunning suffered a life of bitter poverty which became the fuel for dozens of moving songs about working people, the mines, and the…

Powerhouse for God

Powerhouse for God

Powerhouse for God

Powerhouse for God is a portrait of an old-fashioned Baptist preacher John Sherfy, his family, and their church in Virginia's northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Audiences who were…

Women of Old Time Music

Women of Old Time Music

Women of Old Time Music

Women of Old-time Music: Tradition and Change in the Missouri Ozarks takes on the commonly-held folk music scholarship assertion that women did not widely participate in old-time…

End of an Old Song

End of an Old Song

End of an Old Song

Filmed in the mountains of North Carolina, this acclaimed documentary revisits the region where English folklorist Cecil Sharp collected British ballads in the early 1900s. The…

Remembering The High Lonesome

Remembering The High Lonesome

Remembering The High Lonesome

Profiles filmmaker, photographer, artist, and musician John Cohen. The film examines the birth of a new artistic ethic and counterculture through John Cohen's involvement with the…

Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout

Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout

Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout

Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout takes an intimate look at artist Howard Finster as he conducts a workshop or a "workout" as he calls it, at Mountain Lake, Virginia.…

Edd Presnell: Dulcimer Maker

Edd Presnell: Dulcimer Maker

Edd Presnell: Dulcimer Maker

Edd Presnell, a mountain craftsman and native of Watauga County, North Carolina, demonstrates and comments on the construction of a dulcimer. Presnell learned his craft from his…

Buna and Bertha

Buna and Bertha

Buna and Bertha

Performance of and commentary on Anglo-American ballads and songs by 86 and 92 year old mountain women, Buna Hicks of Beech Creek and Bertha Baird of Rominger in western North…

Gandy Dancers 1973

Gandy Dancers 1973

Gandy Dancers 1973

This remarkable film features field recordings of work chants of Gandy Dancers including aligning songs and chants to knock out slack in the rail.

Hamper McBee: Raw Mash

Hamper McBee: Raw Mash

Hamper McBee: Raw Mash

A candid portrait of the Tennesse ballad singer, story-teller, and part-time moonshiner Hamper McBee.

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