Movies: Bluegrass
- 1991
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (1991)
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Longtime fans of bluegrass music and those only recently discovering it will appreciate this documentary on the genre, which was born of a combination of African and Celtic sounds and is the base of American country music. This film traces the musica...
- 2012
Big Easy Express (2012)
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Indie folk heroes Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Tennessee’s Old Crow Medicine Show, and Britain’s acclaimed Mumford & Sons, climbed aboard a beautiful vintage train in California, setting out for New Orleans, Louisiana on a “tour of dre...
- 2005
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken (2005)
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The life and times of The Carter Family, one of the earliest and most-influential group in American country and roots music....
- 2023
Billy Strings | At the Ryman Auditorium (2023)
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Join the Grammy Award winner and his band for a one-of-a-kind concert honoring the birthplace of Bluegrass. One of music’s top artists across all genres, Strings reveres acoustic music while pushing it forward into new spaces through his incredible l...
- 2003
The Three Pickers (2003)
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For one historic evening, American music legends Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, and Ricky Skaggs joined forces as The Three Pickers, to film a concert for public television. The music they made before a North Carolina audience is as relaxed as a front po...
- 2019
You Gave Me A Song: The Life and Music of Alice Gerrard (2019)
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You Gave Me A Song offers an intimate portrait of old-time music pioneer Alice Gerrard and her remarkable, unpredictable journey creating and preserving traditional music. The film follows eighty-four year old Gerrard over several years, weaving toge...
- 2000
Grateful Dawg (2000)
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Jerry Garcia, legendary lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead and David Grisman, virtuoso mandolinist and founder of "Dawg" music… Now, for the first time ever, the musical matrimony and extraordinary friendship of Garcia and Grisman is traced in the ...
- 2017
May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers (2017)
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An intimate portrait of the acclaimed North Carolina band The Avett Brothers, charting their decade-and-a- half rise, while chronicling their present-day collaboration with famed producer Rick Rubin on the multi-Grammy-nominated album “True Sadness.”...
- 2013
The Tao of Bluegrass: A Portrait of Peter Rowan (2013)
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There are only a few Bluegrass Boys still around that played with the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe. Peter Rowan was a bluegrass boy in the 1960's for only a short time, but Bill's influence and musical knowledge still resonates with Peter. Even a...
- 2013
That's Bluegrass (2013)
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Filmed on location in seven different states during 1980-1981, America’s most loved and original music genre is the subject of “That’s Bluegrass”. This care-free, fast-moving documentary lovingly examines our home-grown musical heritage from the simp...
- 2019
Flamekeeper: The Michael Cleveland Story (2019)
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Eleven time Fiddler of the Year and even a Grammy nominee, but that's just part of the story. Though born with disabilities that left him blind and partially deaf, Michael Cleveland is considered by many to be the greatest fiddler of all time....
- 1980
The Robber Bridegroom (1980)
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In a small Southern town, a plantation owner is duped into thinking a thief is a kind stranger. To repay the stranger for stopping a robbery, the plantation owner invites him to his home to meet his daughter....
- 1969
Old Suffolk Boy (1969)
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An in-depth look at the life and career of veteran illustrator and bluegrass musician John Holder....
- 2014
A Kentucky Treasure: The Osborne Brothers Story (2014)
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The story of Bobby and Sonny Osborne, better known as The Osborne Brothers, one of the most successful bluegrass groups of all time. Born in Hyden, Kentucky, they achieved world wide recognition with their 1967 single, “Rocky Top.”...
- 1993
Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music (1993)
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No single figure in American music so dominated a genre as did Bill Monroe with bluegrass. BILL MONROE: FATHER OF BLUEGRASS MUSIC features performances by Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys, Lester Flatt, Emmylou Harris, Paul McCartney, the Osborn...
- 1972
Bluegrass Country Soul (1972)
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Capturing the sights, sounds, and magic of Carlton Haney’s 1971 Labor Day Festival in Camp Springs, North Carolina; a three-day outdoor festival—the first of its kind—featuring bluegrass veterans and future stars alike sharing the primitive wood and ...
- 2002
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones: Live at the Quick (2002)
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Fronted by one of the most accomplished banjo players of his time, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones are captured live in concert on Live at the Quick. The versatile band performs just over a dozen songs including such radically different compositions as...
- 2011
Charlie Louvin: Still Rattlin' the Devil's Cage (2011)
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Fifty years later, and he's still rattlin' the Devil's cage. Charlie Louvin can walk through a crowded mall and not attract attention. But it shouldn't be that way; the humble 83-year-old musician in the cowboy hat and jeans is a true American hero. ...
- 1976
Red Ball Express (1976)
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A drawn-on-film train builds itself and takes a trip, set to the bluegrass standard Orange Blossom Special....
- 1994
Phish: 1994 Bluegrass Sessions (1994)
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The Rev. Jeff Mosier (Blueground Undergrass) was contracted by Phish in the Fall of 1994, to help them learn Bluegrass. They flew him to Michigan and Mike Gordon picked him up in a limo, and they had their first lesson on 11/14/1994, same night as Gr...