Music Films

Madison County Project

Madison County Project

Madison County Project

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…

Make ‘em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers Story

Make ‘em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers Story

Make ‘em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers Story

The legendary Hackberry Ramblers served up a spicy blend of Cajun music mixed with western swing, classic country, blues and rockabilly, with a dash of Gulf Coast swamp pop.

Dreadful Memories

Dreadful Memories

Dreadful Memories

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…

Musical Holdouts

Musical Holdouts

Musical Holdouts

This classic, entertaining documentary on American traditional music features varied individuals and groups who have not become part of the “melting pot” of American society.

Women of Old Time Music

Women of Old Time Music

Women of Old Time Music

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…

Blues Like Showers of Rain

Blues Like Showers of Rain

Blues Like Showers of Rain

Dance to the Music and Listen to the Calls

Dance to the Music and Listen to the Calls

Dance to the Music and Listen to the Calls

Larry Edelman produced this video in 1987 while studying square dance calling with Jerry Goodwin. Recorded at the Prosperity Fire Hall in western Pennsylvania the video features…

Post Industrial Fiddle

Post Industrial Fiddle

Post Industrial Fiddle

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…

End of an Old Song

End of an Old Song

End of an Old Song

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…

Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer

Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer

Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer

Film of the singer/faith healer and folk artist Fannie Bell Chapman from Centreville, Mississippi. Footage includes Chapman and her family singing and praying during church…

Tough, Pretty, or Smart

Tough, Pretty, or Smart

Tough, Pretty, or Smart

The portrayal of rural Indiana group, The Patoka Valley Boys, a six-person string band comprising one of America's finest old-time and bluegrass musical groups.

Almeda Riddle

This video tells how and where Arkansas ballad singer Almeda Riddle began her 10 year stint of singing old ballads all over the country. In an informal manner, folk musician Starr…

Catching the Music

Catching the Music

Catching the Music

An hour-long WETA-TV documentary on musician Stephen Wade. Catching the Music describes the passing of the banjo from one player to the next. The film includes footage of Kirk…

Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

Filmmaker Jill Godmilow (with folklorists Ethel Raim and Marty Koenig) made this film in 1977 when there was a community of 1100 Serbian-Americans families in South Chicago. They…

Remembering The High Lonesome

Remembering The High Lonesome

Remembering The High Lonesome

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…

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