Not many forms of music have “old-” actually built into their name as a prefix. So it’s a given that the practitioners of the 200-year-old genre known as “old-time music” will wear their antiquity proudly in “Fiddlin’,” a documentary set in and around the 80th annual Old Fiddler’s Convention in Galax, Va. What may not be as expected is how much director Julie Simone puts the focus on the music’s teen and pre-teen virtuosos, although the geezer demographic hardly goes unrepresented. Even filmgoers with little taste for these arcane sounds may enjoy the doc, if only for the chance to spend an hour and a half in the company of so many prodigies who’ve put down their phones in the service of taking up catgut.
If a form specifically designated as “old-time music” is a new one on you, you’re not alone; even most roots-music...
If a form specifically designated as “old-time music” is a new one on you, you’re not alone; even most roots-music...
- 10/16/2019
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Since 1935, the southern Virginia city of Galax has hosted the world’s oldest Fiddler’s Convention, which just completed its 84th year. Adults and young people from around the globe come to the convention to compete not only in old-time fiddle-playing, but in other instruments and disciplines, including Dobro, banjo, guitar, autoharp, as well as in folk song and dance categories.
In September, a documentary about the annual event, titled Fiddlin’, will tour theaters before becoming available in October via video-on-demand. Directed by Julie Simone, the film has already earned...
In September, a documentary about the annual event, titled Fiddlin’, will tour theaters before becoming available in October via video-on-demand. Directed by Julie Simone, the film has already earned...
- 8/14/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
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