Bluegrass Dancing - Historic Documentary video free download

Maurice Upton

These people made their own fun, we live in New Zealand and people here did the same thing back then it was common. Community dances were held in our war memorial halls but now are no longer prevalent, however you can still go dancing and other stuff but the Internet and television has made this type socialising redundant. 

Jim Porter

You're the guy, Doug. You're the guy who do a left-to-right pan of the dancers at their eye level, and went right over the head of the little cutie in the dress. You owe her face time. Good film. Saw the whole dance on another video.

222Mission

We used to dance like this in the front room and outside on the front porch. Had a huge old upright piano my mother played gospels on. Seems like everyone played some kind of instrument back then. We never had the shoes. So we stomped the floors harder bare feet. ...lol

Rósa Corcoran

It's wonderful footage, really incredible. Thanks for uploading and sharing it. I'd actually like to buy the film itself. 

Allan Davies

Mr. Hoffman ,I recently had the great pleasure of watching both your clips from 64. And away over here in England,51 years on, I was wriggling in my chair just wanting to be apart of what I was watching and listening to. And you know, I too fell in love with the Bobbed hair girl.....as the sheer joy seen in her face was so uplifting. In truth I enjoyed watching them all immensely ! Thank you so much for sharing them. Truly and greatly appreciated !!

Douglas Day

David, what happened to our bobbed hair girl? She'd be 64 years old now? Have you ever done any follow up in the same spot? How're you doing? Doug

christopher 50s 60s 70s

my home North Carolina ..it was that great blue ridge mountain down home bluegrass and dancing

james smith

I ordered bluegrass roots and its much better than I expected thanks

edwards21416

makes you proud don't it

raindear60

David, these clips are awesome :)

rodney kitchen

so the girl with the dimples is that Mary Laughter? always love to watch this over and over...great! Rodney K London England

Deborah Livingston

If you like old time blue grass music or clog dancing from the hills of Appalachia in North Carolina, this is a great documentary! If you want to see a short video the dancing and a fantastic song by a modern folk singer, there are links there and I loved seeing that too.

cruisinthefifties

Gees, some of the stupid comments on here relating to who & where ....WHO CARES! (Notice no question mark.) Folks, this is about MUSIC... PERIOD! Thanks for this great post..love the MUSIC and the personalities. 

OIFOEFDevilDog0352

please tell me there is somewhere to get this film in it's entirety.

rodsreel

Some of the dancing is similar to Scottish dancing and in the past we had clog dancing in Scotland but it got lost when the rich land owners cleared the highlands of people to graze sheep. Our loss your gain. I play folk music up in the mountains of The Cairngorms and I've just bought a Denis Siler dulcimer which was originally made for a Mrs Dorothy Gatterman. I hope to let people in Scotland find a connection through playing the mountain dulcimer. Thank you for the film

Sam Chaucer

Thank you so much. I'm an author who's scared of herself and that video makes me think... If those people, in a rather hard time, had the time & heart to pass such magnificent music and dancing on to us, how in the world do I have the right to not write a good book?Thanks :)

Porter C

Bluegrass?

JW Long

I like it a lot ya'll !

Slim Jim

Mr. Hoffman, thank you for recording these valuable vignettes of Americana. I am truly grateful. But why do you title so many of your clips "bluegrass dancing," "bluegrass music," etc.? None of this is bluegrass, and as a documentarian, you ought to be aware of that. Bluegrass was considered a radical new style of "slick" country music popularized by Bill Monroe and others that was as shocking to old-time country music fans in 1948 as Elvis Presley was to mainstream listeners a decade later. I'd say what you've done is much more important, because you've captured relics of authentic Celtic-Anglic folk traditions and American (white) gospel that led to modern bluegrass and eventually to the "Nashville sound."

Troy Walrod

Awesome

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