1 Season
5 Episode
American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America - Season 1 Episode 5 Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old (1990)
Examining the talents and wisdom of elderly musicians, singers, and story-tellers, who perform not for fame or fortune but to preserve and share their culture. Stories told by Janie Hunter (80) of Johns Island, SC; ballads sung by ex-coal miner and union organizer Nimrod Workman (91), of Chatteroy, WV; fiddle tunes and tales of moonshining and feuds from Tommy Jarrell (83) of Toast, NC; and footage from the Alabama Sacred Harp Convention in Fyffe, AL, in which people of all ages gather to sing old-time shape-note hymnody.
- Country : United States of America
- Genre : Documentary
- Studio : PBS
- Director :
- Cast : Alan Lomax
