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Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering

Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering

Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering

Filmmaker Stan Woodward stopped by a festival with people demonstrating horse and mule farming near the town of Blackville, South Carolina.

Tabla Apprenticeship

Tabla Apprenticeship

Tabla Apprenticeship

This film captures the special relationship between world renown tabla player Sandeep Das and his young apprentice to whom he is passing on this ancient music tradition. Using…

Amen! Music of the Black Church

Amen! Music of the Black Church

Amen! Music of the Black Church

"Amen!" explores the rich traditions, historical significance, and meaning of Black church music in a concert film, recorded before a live audience at the Second Baptist Church in…

Doc and Merle

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…

In the Moment

In the Moment introduces viewers to payadores, emboladores, decimistas, bertsolari poets, extempo and freestyle rap artists from Argentina, Canary Islands, Brazil, Portugal,…

Dedans Le Sud de la Louisiane

Dedans Le Sud de la Louisiane

Dedans Le Sud de la Louisiane

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

Louisiana Blues

A look at Cajun and Zydeco music that was started in Louisiana. Many artists are featured in the film.

Street Music

Filmmaker Nicholas Doob's road trip across Amerca. Performers: Pork Chop (New Orleans), Arthur C. Brenner (Savannah), Bongo Joe (San Antonio), John Wood/Rodney Gregory/ Floyd Bell…

Sacred Soul

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

Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician

Gypsies Sing Long Ballads

Gypsies Sing Long Ballads

Gypsies Sing Long Ballads

Scotland’s Gypsies have lived outside mainstream society for more than 500 years. Although some of the “Travelling People” still live by the sides of roads, most live today in…

Singing Stream

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…

People's Stuff

People's Stuff is a document of six collectors of unusual objects. Creating an environment for storytelling, the subjects reveal inner dreams and motivations as they share both…

Cajun Country

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…

Pericles in America

Pericles in America

1988 | 1h 8mins

Pericles in America

1988 | 1h 8mins

This musical portrait of immigrant clarinetist Pericles Halkias and the Epirot-Greek community explores the aspirations and ambivalences of Greek-Americans.

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