What we have found is that Old Time music
just isn't a sound. It's a lifestyle. It's living history.
And it's the musicians drive it ever forward while preserving an untarnished musical
tradition.
In the summer of 2008, Horse Archer Productions announced a full
length
documentary called Why Old Time? In this film, we explore
the beauty and art of Old Time music and demonstrate why this particular type of roots music holds such power.
Filming ran through January of 2009 and
took the production crew through three states, half a dozen festivals, and
several front porches and kitchens. We found people from across the
globe who embrace
the past and the future in the same breath to
capture the experience of Old Time music in the 21st Century.
Enjoy
the WHY OLD TIME Trailer!
Click on the YouTube
link to the left to check out the trailer!
To learn more about the
film and the producers/directors experience,
click here.
Check out our
production notes during filming
here.
The HENRY REED DVDs are here
and the WHY OLD TIME DVDS arrive on June 15! Mail outs begin
Wednesday,. June 17. Overseas orders may be delayed one
extra week for regional formatting.
"THE HENRY REED LEGACY" is
complete and will be sent for duplication approximately the same
time. Check out the Henry Reed Page and the
trailer below.
Until his death in 1968, Giles County, Virginia, fixture Henry Reed was
quietly going about a life built around family, tradition and Old Time
music. Henry was instrumental in the revival of interest in this
musical form, becoming the subject of serious academic study by scholar,
Dr. Alan Jabbour. Today, Chris Via, also of Giles preserves the
living tradition of Reed's style with the Giles Mountain String
Band and the Henry Reed Festival each June.
This film is a look at the Reed legacy
from the past to the present told by Reed's children, Jabbour and
Via among others.
$20.00
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Until his death in 1968, Giles County, Virginia, fixture Henry Reed was
quietly going about a life built around family, tradition and Old Time
music. Henry was instrumental in the revival of interest in this
musical form, becoming the subject of serious academic study by scholar,
Dr. Alan Jabbour. Today, Chris Via, also of Giles preserves the
living tradition of Reed's style with the Giles Mountain String
Band and the Henry Reed Festival each June.