Music Films (Appalachia)

River, Rails or Road
River, Rails or Road
2014 | 21mins
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River, Rails or Road
2014 | 21mins
 “River, Rails or Road” reflects singer-songwriter Tom Breiding’s admiration for his home state of West Virginia, his respect for the triumphs, hardships and dedication of the…
Appearing in Person
Appearing in Person
2023 | 1h 46mins
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Appearing in Person
2023 | 1h 46mins
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass
1992 | 95mins
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High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass
1992 | 95mins
The 1994 documentary "High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music", directed by Rachel Liebling, traces the evolution of bluegrass music from its Appalachian roots to the present…
BANJO TALES with Mike Seeger
BANJO TALES with Mike Seeger
2012 | 57mins
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BANJO TALES with Mike Seeger
2012 | 57mins
In 2009, filmmaker Yasha Aginsky accompanied the great old-time musician Mike Seeger and his wife Alexia on recording trips through the Southeastern United States.A tireless…
Clifftop Cameos (1)
Clifftop Cameos (1)
2015 | 7mins
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Clifftop Cameos (1)
2015 | 7mins
Short film highlighting the passion of the people who come to the Cifftop festival in West Virginia and play together with their friends.
Morgan Sexton
Morgan Sexton
1991 | 28mins
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Morgan Sexton
1991 | 28mins
Eastern Kentucky's Morgan Sexton cut his first banjo out of the bottom of a lard bucket, and some seventy years later won the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage…
Appalachian Journey
Appalachian Journey
1991 | 58mins
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Appalachian Journey
1991 | 58mins
Alan Lomax travels through the Southern Appalachians investigating the songs, dances, and religious rituals of the descendents of the Scotch-Irish frontiers people who have made…
Ballad of Frankie Silver
Ballad of Frankie Silver
1996 | 47mins
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Ballad of Frankie Silver
1996 | 47mins
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
2001 | 59mins
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Sweet Is the Day
2001 | 59mins
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
2005 | 24mins
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Madison County Project
2005 | 24mins
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…
Dreadful Memories
Dreadful Memories
1988 | 38mins
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Dreadful Memories
1988 | 38mins
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…
Women of Old Time Music
Women of Old Time Music
2003 | 54mins
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Women of Old Time Music
2003 | 54mins
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
1969 | 30mins
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End of an Old Song
1969 | 30mins
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
2003 | 27mins
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Remembering The High Lonesome
2003 | 27mins
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…
Edd Presnell: Dulcimer Maker
Edd Presnell: Dulcimer Maker
1973 | 6mins
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Edd Presnell: Dulcimer Maker
1973 | 6mins
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…

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