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Paid to Eat Ice Cream
2001 | 1h 10mins
Paid to Eat Ice Cream
2001 | 1h 10mins
"Paid To Eat Ice Cream" profiles beloved New Hampshire contra dance musician Bob McQuillen (1923–2014), whose career spanned over five decades and included playing with many…
Other Way Back
2007 | 1h 38mins
Other Way Back
2007 | 1h 38mins
"The Other Way Back -- Dancing with Dudley" is a documentary that explores the life and legacy of Dudley Laufman, a key figure in the 20th-century contra dance revival, and…
Becoming Geppetto
2022 | 1h 10mins
Becoming Geppetto
2022 | 1h 10mins
Becoming Geppetto gives us an intimate and serenely meditative front-row seat to the Petros's guitar making process, as well as a look into their family life and history.
Tabla Apprenticeship
2022 | 11mins
Tabla Apprenticeship
2022 | 11mins
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…
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.
From Mambo to Hip Hop
2006 | 53mins
From Mambo to Hip Hop
2006 | 53mins
From Mambo to Hip-Hop dances through the history of a borough that nurtured two musical movements: the mambo that evolved into salsa, and the hip-hop that arose from the most…
Somethin‘ Gotta Be Arranged
1983 | 18mins
Somethin‘ Gotta Be Arranged
1983 | 18mins
A film portrait of blues artist Paul Geremia. Made by Geoff Adams in 1983 as a student film project. The documentary features a duo performance with Chicago bluesman Blind John…
Shakers
1974 | 30mins
Shakers
1974 | 30mins
THE SHAKERS traces the growth, decline, and continuing survival of this remarkable religious sect through the memories and songs of Shaker sisters in New Hampshire and Maine.
Post Industrial Fiddle
1982 | 23mins
Post Industrial Fiddle
1982 | 23mins
This deceptively simple but profound film explores the importance of music-making in the life of Jerry Morrell, a pulp mill worker in rural Maine. His “Down East” fiddling style…
Jumpin‘ Night in the Garden of Eden
1987 | 1h 15mins
Jumpin‘ Night in the Garden of Eden
1987 | 1h 15mins
A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden was the first film to document the klezmer revival, tracing the efforts of two founding groups, Kapelye and Boston's Klezmer Conservatory…
New England Fiddles
1983 | 28mins
New England Fiddles
1983 | 28mins
This 1984 film by John Bishop and Nicholas Hawes presents seven of the finest traditional musicians as they play in their homes and at dances and contests, passing their styles to…
Style Wars
1983 | 1h 9mins
Style Wars
1983 | 1h 9mins
New York's legendary Kings of Graffiti own a special place in the hip hop pantheon. Style Wars is regarded by many as the definitive document of the emerging hip hop culture, an…
Lawrence Older: Adirondack Minstrel
1976 | 20mins
Lawrence Older: Adirondack Minstrel
1976 | 20mins
Lawrence Older [1912-1982] is a relaxed, direct and engaging performer who spent the majority of his life working in the woods. His songs and fiddle tunes are mostly from his…
From Shore to Shore
1993 | 57mins
From Shore to Shore
1993 | 57mins
A film on Irish immigrant musicians and their offspring, tracing the influences of family and community, ethnic identity, and American popular culture on the traditional music…
From Shore to Shore - Retrospective Reels
1988 | 52mins
From Shore to Shore - Retrospective Reels
1988 | 52mins
Beginning in April 1988, a number of oral histories and Irish traditional music and dance performances were videotaped for the documentary From Shore To Shore: Irish Traditional…
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