Appalachian Journey (1991)

ALL 07/19/1991 (en) Documentary 58 Min
  • Release
    07/19/1991
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    Appalachian Journey
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). It offers songs, dances, stories, and religious rituals of the Southern Appalachians. Preachers, singers, fiddlers, banjo pickers, moonshiners, cloggers, and square dancers recount the good times and the hard times of rural life there. Performers include Tommy Jarrell, Janette Carter, Ray and Stanley Hicks, Frank Proffitt Jr., Sheila Kay Adams, Nimrod Workman and Phyllis Boyens, Raymond Fairchild, and others, with a bonus of a few African-Americans from the North Carolina Piedmont.

  1. Alan Lomax

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Mike Dibb

    Producer



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  1. Alan Lomax

    Narrator

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Casts : 1 , Crews : 9

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Appalachian Journey (1991) 58 Min

ALL 07/19/1991 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 07/19/1991
  • Production
  • Original title Appalachian Journey
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). It offers songs, dances, stories, and religious rituals of the Southern Appalachians. Preachers, singers, fiddlers, banjo pickers, moonshiners, cloggers, and square dancers recount the good times and the hard times of rural life there. Performers include Tommy Jarrell, Janette Carter, Ray and Stanley Hicks, Frank Proffitt Jr., Sheila Kay Adams, Nimrod Workman and Phyllis Boyens, Raymond Fairchild, and others, with a bonus of a few African-Americans from the North Carolina Piedmont.

  1. Alan Lomax

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Jenny Campbell, Howard Sharp

    Editor

  4. Mike Dibb

    Producer