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 Osborne Brothers, Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, John Hartford and a once-in-a-lifetime Blue Grass Boys reunion featuring Del McCoury, Chubby Wise and Bill Keith. The film features archival footage and rare 1990s performances from Monroe's final years including many of the greatest songs from his six decades of recording.
In a small Southern town, a plantation owner is duped into thinking a thief is a kind stranger. To r...
Filmed and Recorded Live at Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, on September 14, 2015, Nitty Gri...
Examine the history of bluegrass music, from its origins to its eventual worldwide popularity, and h...
Longtime fans of bluegrass music and those only recently discovering it will appreciate this documen...
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Indie folk heroes Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Tennessee’s Old Crow Medicine Show, and Br...
Capturing the sights, sounds, and magic of Carlton Haney’s 1971 Labor Day Festival in Camp Springs, ...
An intimate portrait of the acclaimed North Carolina band The Avett Brothers, charting their decade-...
The story of Bobby and Sonny Osborne, better known as The Osborne Brothers, one of the most successf...
Fronted by one of the most accomplished banjo players of his time, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones are...
Fifty years later, and he's still rattlin' the Devil's cage. Charlie Louvin can walk through a crowd...
Jerry Garcia, legendary lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead and David Grisman, virtuoso mandolinist...
The life and times of The Carter Family, one of the earliest and most-influential group in American ...
You Gave Me A Song offers an intimate portrait of old-time music pioneer Alice Gerrard and her remar...
Fellow musicians talk about the career and impact of Kentucky native J.D. Crowe, one of bluegrass mu...
There are only a few Bluegrass Boys still around that played with the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monr...
Filmed on location in seven different states during 1980-1981, America’s most loved and original mus...
At the Ryman is a 1992 live album by Emmylou Harris and her then-newly formed acoustic backing band,...
The Stanley sound is true old-time, mountain style bluegrass music. This film tells Ralph's story th...