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1965 Bluegrass/Mountain Music TV Special. A Beautiful Time In American Music History

I grew up in the 1950s in blue-collar suburban Long Island. On Saturday night, I would listen to the Grand Ole Opry presented on WSM radio. The music was incredible. Sometimes they called it country music, sometimes bluegrass music, sometimes mountain music, sometimes old time music. I just knew that it was the best, happiest, wonderful to listen to music I ever heard. At 22 years old, I became a documentary filmmaker and made several films for nonprofit organizations near my home. A 16mm film camera with a wire that connected and audio recorder, a Nagra. I went to National Educational Television (NET) and pitched them on my making a documentary about a fellow who I had read about in Time Magazine – Bascom Lamar Lunsford, the founder of the Asheville Mountain music and dance Festival, 81 years old, a music collector and performer and songwriter loved in the region. The NET man in charge gave me $7000 to make a one hour television special. I had never done anything like that. I had never held a 16mm camera will long zoom lens (and you can see some of the results of my zooming and focusing in the finished film). When the film got finished I called it music makers of the Blue Ridge. It ran in the prime time. It garnered a full page review in TV Guide and it started my career. Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a wonderful, kind and generous man who treated me with such respect considering my age and experience and the fact that I spent just about six weeks on the road with him meeting some of the folks he was going to cast as talent for his Music Festival. I didn't know then that I was recording American Appalachian music and dance history. Many viewers have commented on the incredible clog dancing scene presented in this film. It was incredible. We rolled up the rug and Bascom's home, added a few lights, invited a few local friends and Bascom, the great entrepreneur that he was, made it all happen. I danced with a 49 pound camera and battery not knowing that the results would be visible for more than 50 years and touch so many. My subscribers have been asking me for some time to post the entire April 1965 film so here is most of it. The entire film is 58 minutes long. I know that some commentators will say that this is not bluegrass but mountain or old-time music. To me, the distinction is irrelevant. Bluegrass. Country. Mountain. Old time. The creative source is all the same. The wonderfully talented people of the Appalachian Mountains. I hope that seeing this affects you positively and if it does, I would ask you to click on the Super Thanks button below the video screen. Your support will help me to take old film from my archive and properly digitize it. It ain't cheap, but the results are wonderful. Thank you David Hoffman filmmaker