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Buna and Bertha
1973 | 13mins
Buna and Bertha
1973 | 13mins
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
1973 | 14mins
Gandy Dancers 1973
1973 | 14mins
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
1978 | 29mins
Hamper McBee: Raw Mash
1978 | 29mins
A candid portrait of the Tennesse ballad singer, story-teller, and part-time moonshiner Hamper McBee.
Fiddlers‘ Grove: A Celebration of Old Time
1994 | 56mins
Fiddlers‘ Grove: A Celebration of Old Time
1994 | 56mins
Every spring for more than 75 years musicians from all over the country gather in the foothills of North Carolina at Fiddler's Grove. Susan and Donna Campbell's hour-long…
His Eye is on the Sparrow
1999 | 28mins
His Eye is on the Sparrow
1999 | 28mins
Ethel Caffie-Austin, daughter of the coalfields, is West Virginia\'s "First Lady of Gospel Music." This program features Ethel performing a range of spirituals, hymns and…
Sitting On Top of the World at the Fiddlers‘ Convention
1974 | 24mins
Sitting On Top of the World at the Fiddlers‘ Convention
1974 | 24mins
The fiddlers' convention at Union Grove is the oldest bluegrass music festival of the U.S., held on the eastern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. This film…
High Lonesome Sound
1963 | 30mins
High Lonesome Sound
1963 | 30mins
John Cohn's remarkable documentary explores the lives of Appalachian mountain people in a depressed area of Kentucky through spiritual and folk music. Presents songs by revivalist…
While The Ages Roll On
1990 | 29mins
While The Ages Roll On
1990 | 29mins
Filmmaker Kevin Ballings writes...My interest in this topic is not religious, but cultural and ethnographic. The Old Regular Baptists are one of the most traditional religious…
Mountain Talk
2003 | 56mins
Mountain Talk
2003 | 56mins
Language and Life in Southern Appalachia – The people of Southern Appalachia survived for centuries in a rugged and remote landscape. Their historic isolation promoted the…
Hazel Dickens
2001 | 1h
Hazel Dickens
2001 | 1h
From the coalfields of West Virginia to the factories of Baltimore, Hazel Dickens has lived the songs she sings. Interviews with Hazel and fellow musicians such as Alison Krauss,…
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