"Ballads, Blues, Bluegrass", filmed in 1961, will be at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Tuesday June 19. I, of course, will have left town the day before. :-\

From the Association for Cultural Equity site:

An intimate song swap filmed in Lomax's apartment, spontaneously arranged after a 1961 Clarence Ashley concert at Carnegie Hall, produced by the Friends of Old-Time Music. Crowding into Lomax's West 3rd Street walk-up were Ashley, Roscoe Holcomb, Doc Watson, Jean Ritchie, Jack Elliott, Peter LaFarge, the New Lost City Ramblers, Memphis Slim, and Willie Dixon. Directed by Alan Lomax, filmed by George Pickow, sound by Jean Ritchie. (60 minutes)

Some folks say that Bob Dylan and Suze Rotalo were both there too.

I found this when I was googling for more info after seeing a clip that The Southern Folklife Collection recently shared on Facebook: clip from John Bishop. Bishop says, "Media-generation.com will be putting out the DVD when I finally finish The Land Where The Blues Began." The ACE says you can pre-order the DVD from Media-Generation, but they don't have any listing for it yet. But they're a small operation so I bet you could contact them and do it.

~ Becky in Long Beach