#fiddlin'

[arojenniferwalters]

Fiddlin' (2018)[13.5.2024] Directed by Julie Simone

[austinshermanillustration]

I had some time so I put animated the maori man a bit. I still have to figure out proper speed output cus its a little slow here!

[criticalmera]

Margo Cooper - Shardé and Robert Gravel Springs Miss 2011

[earthquake-weather-blog]

Sprout Wings and Fly directed by Les Blank (1983)

First and foremost - that song.  The lyrics, and the singing...that's some old time Americana.  

I really dig in Blank's titling.  So awesome.  And that background for the interview/performance, the way the musician is almost coming out of the vines, the green and pink - amazing.

"Sprout Wings and Fly" is a compassionate, life-affirming, altogether extraordinary document by Les Blank (www.lesblank.com) on old-timey Appalachian fiddler Tommy Jarrell. It's a fascinating film on the theme that art, music, dance, food and earthly pleasures help human beings live joyously in the face of certain death. It offers fine old-timey music, crazy jive, and a fascinating cast of backwoods characters." --Michael Goodwin, Berkeley Monthly