Documentary, Music
Set in the North Carolina Appalachians, Sprout Wings and Fly honors the fiddle playing of 82-year-old Tommy Jarrell of Toast, NC. Tommy was quirky, gregarious and generous, and this film shows him at his best, in fine fiddling form.
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Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Call
Vamp In Symphony With The Norwegian Radio Orchestra
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
Wirklich alles?!
Ventanas
Fleisch ist mein Gemüse
Music Inn
Traces of Crimea
Tales From a Golden Age: Bob Dylan 1941-1966
Ole Paus – 70 Years
Pickin & Screamin
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Keyboard Fantasies
Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
Hootenanny a Go-Go
American Folk
Harmonium in California
American Pop
The American Folk Blues Festival: The British Tours 1963-1966
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Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 2009
Following folk musician Joan Baez on her extensive 2008-2009 tour, this film commemorates her career, which has spanned five decades. It includes concert and archival footage as well as interviews with such disparate colleagues, friends and admirers as Bob Dylan, Jesse Jackson and David Crosby. In addition to the music, it also touchs upon Baez's long history of global social activism.Call
IMDB 6.2 | May , 2016
Paris To Kyiv’s Fragmenti recording was originally released in 2005, a sonic tapestry of ancient Ukrainian song fragments and contemporary sounds. Nearly 11 years later, after circulating throughout the roster of artists on Balanced Records, a remix album has been compiled featuring electronic and avant garde interpretations by Ken Gregory, Joe Silva, Rise Ashen, Kasm, J57, Solidaze, Cayetano, Miguel Graça, Trevor Walker and Anders Peterson. This film accompanies the remix by Joe Silva.Vamp In Symphony With The Norwegian Radio Orchestra
IMDB 3.5 | Nov , 2006
Here is Vamp's big live concert at Rockefeller with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. This is a pure hit parade with one of Norway's most popular bands: "Tir n'a Noir", "Månemannen", "13 Humler", "Kim du nå va" and many more. In addition there is concert footage, interviews and 3 TV shows about the band included in the bonus material. Over 3 and a half hours of Vamp entertainment.The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
IMDB 7.2 | Mar , 1982
Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.Wirklich alles?!
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2002
Ventanas
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2006
Fleisch ist mein Gemüse
IMDB 5.6 | Apr , 2008
Heinz Strunk, plagued by crater-like skin rashes, lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg in the 1980s. As a saxophonist, he tours the North German lowlands with the dance combo "Tiffanys". In this bizarre universe of Korn, Klaus & Klaus and Koteletts, bandleader Gurki teaches him how to deliver cheerful, upbeat music. To escape the vicious circle of shooting festivals and village weddings, Heinz wants to start a solo career and become a hit producer...Music Inn
IMDB 0 | May , 2007
During a decade rife with paranoia, in the middle of the McCarthy era, Music Inn was a bold experiment. Halfway between the Second World War and The Civil Rights Movement, Phil and Stephanie Barber created an oasis in the Berkshire Hills in Western Massachusetts where aspiring musicians came to learn from the very best. Students and faculty, young and old, rich and poor, white, black, and brown convened together and learned from each other. Defying the surrounding environment, Music Inn harbored a racial and cultural harmony where music was all that mattered.Traces of Crimea
IMDB 10 | Jan , 2016
A musical portrait of the ethnic minorities of the Crimean peninsula, it explores the sonic diversity from this unique land.Tales From a Golden Age: Bob Dylan 1941-1966
IMDB 8.5 | Jan , 2004
Documentary - Tracing his career up to the point of his 1966 motorcycle accident and subsequent disappearance from the spotlight, this unauthorized documentary uncovers a side of Bob Dylan never revealed before. Includes extensive interviews and rare footage. - Mickey JonesOle Paus – 70 Years
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2017
Norwegian musician Ole Paus turns 70 years old and is celebrated by a long line of artist friends who sing his songs in the Oslo Opera House in Norway.Pickin & Screamin
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2015
When people think of Appalachian music they often think of the banjo and classify it as bluegrass, but the music in the region is more diverse than that. This film focuses on the different styles, from old-time to punk music, that is played and often overlooked here in the mountains.Neil Young: Heart of Gold
IMDB 7.4 | Feb , 2006
In March 2005, Neil Young was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. Four days before he was scheduled for a lifesaving operation, he headed to Nashville, where he wrote and recorded the country folk album Prairie Wind with old friends and family members. After the successful operation and recovery period, he returned to Nashville that August to play at the famed Ryman Auditorium, once again gathering together friends and family for this special performance.Keyboard Fantasies
IMDB 6 | Oct , 2021
As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home-studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realized far before its time. Three decades on, the musician – now Glenn Copeland – began to receive emails from people across the world, thanking him for the music they’d recently discovered.Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2009
This television special is a first for the reclusive singer with the BBC documentary gaining new interviews with Young, nine months apart in New York and California. The documentary also looks back over the singer's archives, with some never-seen-before material.Hootenanny a Go-Go
IMDB 0 | Jul , 1965
A square rich boy wants to make it with a pretty folk singer, so he buys the coffee house where she and a bunch of other beatniks perform. Features performances by The Goldebriars, The Free Wheelers, and a very young Joan Rivers doing a stand-up routine.American Folk
IMDB 5.9 | Jan , 2018
Two strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11. A story about the kindness of strangers and the power of music.Harmonium in California
IMDB 4 | Jan , 1980
Through concerts and interviews, folk-progressive group Harmonium takes Quebec culture to California. This documentary full of colour and sound, filmed in California in 1978, recounts the ups and downs of the journey of the Quebec musical group Harmonium, who came to feel the pulse of Americans and see if culture, their culture, can succeed in crossing borders.American Pop
IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 1981
The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.The American Folk Blues Festival: The British Tours 1963-1966
IMDB 7 | May , 2007
In 1962, a group of legendary American blues musicians embarked on a series of tours to the United Kingdom. Footage from these classic concerts, which feature the likes of Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins, Junior Wells and more, are collected here. Blues fans will relish appearances by Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lonnie Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Big Joe Turner, Otis Rush ...