Highwoods string band documentary 2018 youtube
Save Password. All Topics Active Topics. This is a great old fashioned story telling way of getting at the history of the Highland String Band. A whole bunch of steady handed people helped tell the story - Paul Brown, Joe Herrmann, for example - and Larry Edelman rode herd as producer, director and editor. But the documentary's strength is the way the story was coaxed out of the band members themselves - Walt, Bob, Mac, Doug and Jenny.
The film threaded contemporary interviews of the musicians into a great narrative, and wrapped that in old footage and stills of the band. The DVD was a limited production run, and they are going fast.
Highwoods string band documentary 2018 youtube: Blending rare performance footage, photographs,
Available through mudthumpers website. Sometime after the DVDs are sold, the film will be uploaded to Folkstreams for online viewing, Also, the film is not-for-profit, labor of love. Proceeds simply help offset production costs. Thanks for spreading the word, Lew!