Subject: RE: Shirley Collins
From:
babypix
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 09:38 PM
"Where Have All The Folkies Gone?" is an eight hour, four-part television series initially planned for American cable and educational television broadcast, but also for licensing through the BBC and direct to dvd, etc.
We have been hard at work for over a year in preparation for telling what we plan as the definitive and historical story of American Vernacular Music. Of course we acknowledge all of the requisite Western European and African influences, but our focus for this production is truly on how American music beginning in the 1600s parallels the growth and development of our young country.
For lack of a better description, this is a "Ken Burns-type" documentary series which will be Narrated by Peter Coyote and in association with some of the finest talents in contemporary television production.
Our last year has been consumed with meeting and interviewing venerable performers, scholars, critics, and experts on-camera with: Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, John Cohen, Sam Hinton, Wavy Gravy (first Emcee at the original Gaslight Club), Phyllis Barney (Folk Alliance), Jonathan Talbot (aka Juan Moreno), Larry Hanks, Hamilton Camp, Bruce Langhorne, Maxine Sellers, Mason Williams, Marc Silber, Mrs. Burl Ives, Honeyboy Edwards, Spencer Moore, Anna Lomax Chairetakis (obo her father, Alan Lomax), Bess Lomax Hawes, Rich Warren (obo WFMT "The Midnight Special"), Howard & Roz Larman (LA Folkscene radio program), Guy Carawan, Len Chandler, Tom Paxton, Theodore Bikel, Rob Koppleman (obo Lee Hays book), Alex Hassilev (The Limeliters), John Braheny, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, John Stewart (Kingston Trio), Roy Rogers (John Lee Hooker's Producer), Will Holt, Raun MacKinnon, Sonny Ochs (obo Phil Ochs Estate), Ellen Hawes, Meridian Green (obo Bob Gibson Estate), Raphael Boguslav, Jean Ritchie, Oscar Brand, Gene & Francesca Raskin, Doug Yeager obo the estates of Ed McCurdy and Josh White, Odetta, Paul Colby (The Bitter End), Art D'Lugoff (The Village Gate) , Jac Holzman (Elektra Records Founder), and the members of Marley's Ghost including Ed Littlefield, Jr., Jon Wilcox, Dan Wheetman, and Mike Whelan.
Other interviews in the works will include interviews with: T Bone Burnett, Van Dyke Parks, Utah Phillips, Marc Savoy, Carolyn Hester, Faith Petric, Ed Pearl, Barry Olivier(Berkeley Folk Festival), Gordon Bok, Harold Leventhal, Ronnie Gilbert, Christine Lavin, Michael Cooney, Michael Johnson, Mark Moss, Claudia Schmidt, Glenn Howard & the American Musical Heritage Archive, Joan Baez,Ani DiFranco, Irwin Silber, Barbara Dane, Bob Dylan, Bob Neuwirth, Fred Silber, George Pickow, Tracy Chapman, Judy Collins, Shirley Collins, Norah Jones, Nora Guthrie obo the Guthrie Estate, Peter Yarrow, Sandy & Caroline Paton, Keb Mo, Taj Mahal,Maria Muldaur, Rosalie Sorrels, and Jesse (Nicky)Cahn obo his dad, Rolf Cahn...and many more
These interviews will be edited and placed in context with historical archival footage and stills, live on-tape segments, and animated graphical segments. It's gonna be a beautiful thing and a serious study and tribute to an important American genre we hold dear. As folkies ourselves, we feel a strong responsibility as "keepers of the flame", so to speak.
We hope that members of this forum will continue to generate input for us, particularly in relation to information on elder performers, or those influential performers who may not have been commerically successful, yet important nonetheless.
Thanks for letting us into your world.
Warm regards,
Deborah Robins
Nut Hill Productions, Inc.
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