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dipsydoodle

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5. Songcatcher

Tue Apr 1, 2014, 01:18 PM

Apr 2014

Songcatcher is a 2000 drama film directed by Maggie Greenwald. It is about a musicologist researching and collecting Appalachian folk music in the mountains of western North Carolina. Although Songcatcher is a fictional film, it is loosely based on the work of Olive Dame Campbell, founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina and that of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp, portrayed at the end of the film as professor Cyrus Whittle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songcatcher

Iris DeMent singing Pretty Saro from Songcatcher.

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