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The Porchlight Sessions

  • The Porchlight Sessions now available for download

    October 12, 2017 | by John Lawless

    Back in the summer of 2012, we reported on a then new documentary film on bluegrass called The Porchlight Sessions, produced and directed by Anna Schwaber. Like many such projects, it was created more for people new to the music

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  • IBMA Film Festival announces attractions

    July 29, 2014 | by John Lawless

    The films to be screened during the debut IBMA Bluegrass Film Festival at the 2014 World of Bluegrass Convention have been announced. Eight different projects will be shown, including a pair of highlight films that were selected for special merit.

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  • NCBS Film Festival to screen The Porchlight Sessions

    January 24, 2013 | by Richard Thompson

    The Porchlight Sessions, produced by Nashville and Los Angeles documentary filmmaker Anna Schwaber, will be screened in Redwood City on Sunday, January 27, as part of a free afternoon bluegrass film program. The Northern California Bluegrass Society will present the NCBS

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  • An Interview with Anna Schwaber of The Porchlight Sessions

    December 26, 2012 | by Daniel Mullins

    During IBMA week, I had the pleasure of attending the Nashville premiere of The Porchlight Sessions, a new film which digs deep into the roots of our music while also looking forward to its future. The film blew me away. (See

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  • A Review of The Porchlight Sessions

    October 3, 2012 | by Daniel Mullins

    “If they can do it, why can’t we?” In the new film, The Porchlight Sessions, Bobby Osborne uses this quote to describe the attitude it took to make his and Sonny’s dream of playing on the Grand Ole Opry a reality.

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  • Porchlight Sessions to premiere during World of Bluegrass

    September 21, 2012 | by John Lawless

    We had written previously about the The Porchlight Sessions, a documentary film project produced and directed by Anna Schwaber, that seeks to explain the music and the culture surrounding the bluegrass scene. More than two years in the making, the movie

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  • The Porchlight Sessions

    March 8, 2012 | by John Lawless

    A 4 minute trailer has been released from The Porchlight Sessions, a new documentary film from Anna Schwaber that seeks to provide a more accurate glimpse into the culture of bluegrass music and bluegrass people than is common provided in

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