WHY OLD TIME

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Why Old Time? is a positive and celebratory feature length documentary about Old Time music fan culture.

This film focuses on the relationship between the music and its fans, examining why so many folks travel long distances to festivals, why they spend so much time learning songs written decades or longer before they were born and why the musical tradition established hundreds of years ago is being preserved by people today.

We explore the sense of community based around the music and why people gather weekly to play Old Time music and commune with each other form house concerts to huge festivals. We also address the tremendous wealth of knowledge fans retain on not just a given song, but where it came from, variations of it, and musicians that were known to play it.

In essence, documents both the Old Time music scene as it is today as well as its development over the years. Why Old Time? demonstrates why it is important to preserve this music and share it with younger generations.

Why Old Time? will be available on DVD in Winter 2008 and can be pre-ordered at a discount rate here. This documentary is brought to you by Horse Archer Productions, the people who brought you Hokie Nation: A Team, A Town and the Best Darned Fans in College Football and Virginia Creepers: The Horror Host Tradition of the Old Dominion.

About Horse Archer Productions:

Formed in 2005, Horse Archer Productions is a documentary film company based in Christiansburg, Virginia producing both independent films and works for hire. We brought you 2007’s the highly successful documentary, Hokie Nation: A Team A Town and the Best Darned Fans in College Football, a documentary about Virginia Tech football fan culture.

This summer we are completing two other films, The Henry Reed Legacy, about Old Time musician, Henry Reed, who created and preserved many of Old Time's most familiar tunes.

We are also wrapping up, Virginia Creepers, a documentary about the TV horror host tradition in the Old Dominion. It should be available in time for Halloween!

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