This Appalachian Music Man Lived A Beautiful Life

The man is a great Appalachian Mountain North Carolina folk musician/historian/wonderful character, Bascom Lamar Lunsford. This is the entire documentary posted because so many of my subscribers and viewers have asked to see more.

Back in 1965, I was making my 1st television documentary (23 years old) and got the chance to go down and be with him and record what has become amazing mountain music history. In the early 1990s, PBS gave me the chance to return to those wonderful mountains and tell a story of Bascom's life and why he was so committed to preserving and sharing the music and dance and storytelling of his people.

I love to them then. I love them now. And I take every opportunity to thank Bascom Lamar Lunsford and his wife and his colleagues and friends for so openly sharing their incredible abilities with an outsider–a young man from New York with a profound respect for their unique and creative culture.

And for all of you who think that this culture has died, my experience is that it has not. The music, songwriting, dance, storytelling, sense of humor, so prevalent in the mountains of North Carolina, is alive and well. I wish I could go there again and be with the grandchildren of the people who I filmed back then.

Видео This Appalachian Music Man Lived A Beautiful Life канала David Hoffman