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LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS
The Old-Time Music Home Page is seeking web-savvy volunteers to help update the News, Links and Fiddlers Hall of Fame sections of the site. If you love Old-Time Music and are interested in breathing some new life into this web site, please contact david@lynchgraphics.com (make sure you answer the autorespond email from SpamArrest so that your email doesn't get stuck in my spam filter).

"WHY OLD TIME?" Documentary Coming Soon!

Chris Valuzzo's soon-to-be-released documentary began with a simple questions: Why Old Time?

In the course of making the documentary, Chris discovered that Old Time music just isn't a sound. It's a lifestyle. It's living history. And it's the musicians drive it ever forward while preserving an untarnished musical tradition.

The film focuses on the relationship between the music and its fans, examining why so many folks travel long distances to festivals, why they spend so much time learning songs written decades or longer before they were born and why the musical tradition established hundreds of years ago is being preserved by people today.

See the trailer for the film on YouTube.

MUSIC FOR THE SKY Documentary

Director Nikolai Fox's new Music for the Sky documentary focuses on a community of eccentric revivalist old-time fiddlers playing southern style fiddle music while living in the mountains of "The People's Republic of" Vermont and Western Massachusetts. The film reveals the personalities of eight musicians (George Ainley, Ahmet Baycu, Jim Burns, Michael Donahue, Zac Johnson, Bob Naess Anthony Pasquarosa and John Specker) – each described in a cinematic portrait. Using a single small camera, first time filmmaker Nikolai Fox captures the music and personalities of this community of musicians at various informal locations. The movie also featuring the music of Jon Bekoff, Paula Bradley, Dan Brown, Bill Dillof, Nikolai Fox, Greg Miller, Jon Place, Alex Scala, Rose Sinclair and Liz Toffey.

The DVD includes the 60 min. film plus extra footage. There is a trailer on YouTube that will make you want to email Nikolai Fox and order a copy!

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