Music Films

Music Makers: Seamus Connolly and Friends

Music Makers: Seamus Connolly and Friends

Music Makers: Seamus Connolly and Friends

Séamus was 12 years old when he began playing the fiddle. As a young musician he traveled throughout Ireland, meeting and playing music with some of the legends of Irish music.…

Life and Times of Joe Thompson

Life and Times of Joe Thompson

Life and Times of Joe Thompson

The story of the last African American fiddle player in North Carolina whose unique style of music has been passed down in his family for over three hundred years.

Plenazos Callejeros

Plenazos Callejeros

2012 | 1h 4mins

Plenazos Callejeros

2012 | 1h 4mins

PLENA! A folkloric genre native to Puerto Rico whose creation was influenced by African and Caribbean music.

His Eye is on the Sparrow

His Eye is on the Sparrow

His Eye is on the Sparrow

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…

Tradition Bearers

Tradition Bearers

Tradition Bearers

A documentary about Finnish American history and folk art expressed through the lives and repertories of our folk artists living in the western Great Lakes Region.

I‘ll Keep On Singing

I‘ll Keep On Singing

I‘ll Keep On Singing

A comprehensive look ca. 2007 at southern gospel convention singing, an amateur, Christian, music-making and educational tradition that developed in rural America following the…

La Décima Borinqueña

La Décima Borinqueña

La Décima Borinqueña

Portrayal of four renowned Puerto Rican décima troubadours as they come together to revive the Roundtable tradition and to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Don Quixote…

Til the Butcher Cuts Him Down

Til the Butcher Cuts Him Down

Til the Butcher Cuts Him Down

Philip Spalding\'s study of the history and men who played New Orleans Jazz through the eyes of one of its greatest trumpet players: Punch Miller (died 1971). Kid Punch was…

Eatala: A Life in Klezmer

Eatala: A Life in Klezmer

Eatala: A Life in Klezmer

Klezmer is Eastern European Jewish folk music. In other parts of the country, klezmer seemed to disappear and then was revived. But in Philadelphia, the Hoffman family never…

Elaine and Susan Sing Goodnight to Mishegas

Elaine and Susan Sing Goodnight to Mishegas

Elaine and Susan Sing Goodnight to Mishegas

"Elaine and Susan Say Goodnight to Mishegas" is a short playful documentary that tells the story of a song, explores how a significant local klezmer tradition is extended (and…

They Sing Of A Heaven

They Sing Of A Heaven

They Sing Of A Heaven

This film documents sacred harp singing, a 200 year old tradition of religious singing which survives today in the rural South.

Singing Fishermen of Ghana

Singing Fishermen of Ghana

Singing Fishermen of Ghana

Pete and Toshi Seeger documented work songs of a fishing community in Ghana, the West-African roots of the work-song tradition shown in the films "Afro American Worksongs in a…

Sitting On Top of the World at the Fiddlers‘ Convention

Sitting On Top of the World at the Fiddlers‘ Convention

Sitting On Top of the World at the Fiddlers‘ Convention

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…

Nothing to Prove

Nothing to Prove

2009 | 1h 27mins

Nothing to Prove

2009 | 1h 27mins

Southpaw bassist and South Carolina native Mac Arnold was only ten years old when he and his brother built a guitar out of a gas can, a couple strips of wood, a handful of nails,…

Dance Like A River

Dance Like A River

Dance Like A River

Dance Like a River is a documentary portrait of Odadaa!, a remarkable drumming and dance troupe from Ghana West Africa, in the early years of their residence in the United States.

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