Bluegrass film/movie news

About 18 months ago we told you about an upcoming film called Paradise - A Town of Sinners & Saints, a musical comedy with bluegrass music adapted from a stage play by the same name. It features 19 new songs,

A new film, The Watchers, directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan and set to release in June, will include music from Nashville's bluegrass genre-benders, The Steeldrivers. Their contribution is a collaboration the 'Drivers recorded with Irish band Dervish in 2019 for their

A new film, A Nashville Wish, which includes music from Galax, VA bluegrass band Loose Strings, has been released for video on demand. It's something of a teen love story, with the main character being a talented country singer right out

A documentary film on the life of bluegrass bandleader and entrepreneur Lorraine Jordan, Living Like I'm Dying, was given the Audience Choice award at the recent Fuquay Film Festival  in North Carolina. The documentary, which premiered at the festival, was produced

The producers of the iconic film, Bluegrass Country Soul, filmed in 1971 at Carlton Haney's Camp Springs Festival, have teamed with Bluegrass Music TV and Man-Do-Lin Productions to bring the feature length movie, and its classic performances, to bluegrass lovers

MerleFest has some big news to announce as they celebrate their 35th year in 2023, and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Doc Watson, who launched the festival in 1988 in memory of his son, Eddy Merle Watson, who

Bluegrass lovers have known for years just how powerful film and television can be in getting the music in front of millions of people. From Foggy Mountain Breakdown in the Bonnie and Clyde movie in 1967, through Duelin' Banjos in

A new Julia Golonka film about IBMA Hall of Fame member Hazel Dickens takes its title from Dickens' powerful anthem Don’t Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There, and explores how she, along with her musical partner Alice Gerrard, became

For nearly four decades banjoist Bill Evans has been offering a presentation called The Banjo in America, which condenses the 250 year history of our beloved banjo into a concert-length event. During these shows, which are part performance, part demonstration, and

Germain Media and Appalachian Memory Keepers have completed their film on G.B. Grayson, the blind, old time fiddler that some contend is the father of contemporary old time music, much as Bill Monroe was of bluegrass. Some think of him