Movies: Mike Seeger

  • 2011
    Give Me the Banjo

    Give Me the Banjo (2011)

    Give Me the Banjo

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    The Banjo Project is a cross-media cultural odyssey: a major television documentary, a live stage/multi-media performance, and a website that chronicle the journey of America’s quintessential instrument—the banjo—from its African roots to the 21st ce...

    Give Me the Banjo
  • 2002
    Hazel Dickens: It’s Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song

    Hazel Dickens: It’s Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song (2002)

    Hazel Dickens: It’s Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song

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    A biographical documentary about the life Hazel Dickens profiling a modern woman dealing with contemporary issues from a feminist perspective that is the product of her experiences being Appalachian, being displaced physically and culturally, being p...

    Hazel Dickens: It’s Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song
  • 1960
    Indian Summer

    Indian Summer (1960)

    Indian Summer

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    On the first hot day of summer, an old farmer goes fishing just as he has done for many years on the West Branch of the Delaware River. A young boy, his frequent fishing companion, eagerly takes him to see the first giant bulldozers, which are to beg...

    Indian Summer
  • 2014
    The Winding Stream

    The Winding Stream (2014)

    The Winding Stream

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    The story of the American music dynasty, the Carters and Cashes, and their decades-long influence on popular music....

    The Winding Stream
  • 1987
    Talking Feet

    Talking Feet (1987)

    Talking Feet

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    This documentary features 24 traditional dancers filmed on location in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina....

    Talking Feet
  • 2012
    Banjo Tales

    Banjo Tales (2012)

    Banjo Tales

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    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, documented by Yasha and his assistant, Slava Basovich. A tireless collector, performer...

    Banjo Tales
  • 2005
    Old-Time Banjo Styles

    Old-Time Banjo Styles (2005)

    Old-Time Banjo Styles

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    Mike Seeger teaches traditional American banjo styles. 18 tunes are taught: Molly Dear, Snowdrop, French Waltz, Reuben's Train, Tom Dooley, John Brown's Dream, Backstep Cindy, Old Corn Likker, Marching Jaybird, Soldier's Joy, Needle Case, Baptist Sho...

    Old-Time Banjo Styles