I grew up in Roanoke, Virginia listening to Mountain Music, clogging, and square dancing (which we learned at school) (I also learned how to make moonshine in AP Chemistry 😂). The clip of the young folks dancing in Mr. L’s living room is my very favorite of your videos-it brings me pure joy. Thank you.
Omg David it's been 58 years ago!!! Almost unbelievable! But hey that's only a "drop in the bucket" (so they say) especially compared to centuries of this rich tradition! I can hardly wait to see the full movie! You must be super proud to have been such a huge part of it (as you well should be!) Lord knows Lamar would be beaming once again! I only live about 4hrs from Madison county, sure hope to go to one of the festival's there someday! Thank You so much for this clip, it's going to be an awesome movie!✌
Wow! I'm 58 years old and have lived in Madison county for the last 32. I didn't expect to see my neighbors on here when I clicked on this video. Did you know they actually offer scholarships for clogging at Mar Hill University and degrees in bluegrass and old time music at East TN State?
Thanks Bascom Lamar Lunsford for keeping the history of the Appalachia mountains of North Carolina alive in your lifetime. Bascom Lamar Lunsford March 21, 1882 - September 4, 1973)
This was an unexpected surprise David I loved your original documentary Music Maker of the Blue Ridge with Bascom Lamar Lunsford how cool it must have been for you to revisit the actual room your shot the film in 1965 58 years later. thanks, you David Hoffman for a real treat in a musical dance piece of America's history of the North Carolina mountains.
As a Brit that never really visited the US for maybe more than an hour or two,there are two films I hold dear in my heart. You're own "Ballad of a Mountain Man" and Barbara Kopple's "Harlan County USA" Much appreciated.
I have wondered about what happened over the decades since. I'm glad you went back and I enjoyed it... Hey wait a second, is that David Hoffman filmmaker doing the square dance????😊
This is fantastic! The 1958 documentary was my introduction to David's extraordinary film-making skills. From the beginning of the 21st Century I have been sharing his work. Thank you, David Hoffman, Documentarian par excellance!
I spent a chunk of my life during the 70s in southern West Virginia between the coal fields of McDowell and Raleigh counties and the bucolic farms of Summers and Monroe counties and your films always bring back memories.
I was so hoping for an update on the people featured in the first video. Wondering about the girl in the thumbnail, the young men and women dancing. This was as Vietnam was ramping up. I've watched the first video many times it brings me back to my childhood visiting my relatives in Missouri.
An absolutely fantastic video! As someone else is from Eastern Kentucky, my relatives were too. My Pappy told me many a story from the early days and could still do a decent clog at the age of 88!
The video were they clog in the living room is the best video you have and the bluegrass music 🎶 the family in north Carolina. The video shows you make a comeback to see how it has changed now. Thanks for sharing this David. 📸🪕🎻
My gosh, I have seen this one earlier one before, absolutely beautiful. So happy you went back.These are really old songs of beauty. I love this music and dances. Do I have you wondering why, DavId? 🙏❤️🌏🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵
Interesting - the dancing is a mix of Irish dancing, clog dancing and barn dancing. Here in Norfolk UK there is a long tradition of clog dancing (or "step dancing") brought here by Irish, Scots and North English travelling labourers. It usually involved one person at a time clogging on the spot, on a board, and the complication and the speed of the steps was what got you the prize or the drinks.
I'm surprised you and I didn't run across each other thru all the years I've played this music pretty much all over the east coast. I placed second in the wv state banjo contest and third in the national contest one year, we played square dances, barn dances and almost every bar and bluegrass festival from coast to coast, amazing we never met lol thanks for this video!
I love your work Mr. Hoffman :) I don't consider you to be as a "film maker," it is something else, a documentarian, one of the best. I would really enjoy an actual film of things in your collection, maybe Netflix would pick it up. And an extra addition would be your doing little narration about the clips between them. That would not have just your excellent films clips, but would also a documentary about you. I would watch the heck out of that!
It is wonderful to see this return visit by you David. The original film was amazing, and holds a special place for me because I danced the Morris for 14 years, which Cecil Sharp painstakingly recorded and preserved when it was dying out. He did that for this culture as well. The joy these dancers and musicians display in their performances is infectious, you cannot listen to it without tapping your toes or wanting to dance too. The sharing of compositions among these people has kept it a living cultural tradition, and your film introduced it to so many people who would not otherwise have run across it. Thank you David, for always finding the extraordinary among ordinary people. We are all richer because you do that, and invite us to do the same.🖤🇨🇦
Those were the rich folks not my parents not sure how they made it to civilization- mom from Clay Cty KY , dad from Renick WVA …. They met at Berea College - that’s a scholarship only college … so please give ..;) my first concert my parents brought me to was Earle Skruggs and Lester Flatt
kinda what I was thinkin, rich folks lol. probably work at the courthouse lol. i was born and raised here in the middle of W.V. my family Scott, Irish, come here way back, fought Washington and his men from stealing their liquor, still fighting them off, pricks lol. 💚 almost heaven
All so, see me play my repyou guitar /practices of tunes i do since 1968. varied and many folky songs i not know name or were got. Met Earl Scruggs review/family at black hills state college in 70's as photographer shot for bands in Rapid city/Deadwood. Bro has dads mandalin, taken Utah beach for 1 week till rehab for hands injured.14th. Bro plays bluegrass with frins, Dry Creek Diggers last but gigs with others like Wendy Wright( ) and past Billy Faire banjo with Segar,Dillon. seekers.etc. we bot his piano...
i have subscribed to a few appalachia themed channels on youtube. you can mock them as the hillbillies and all but these people aint. they have their values still so right. family above everything and all. i guess thats BECAUSE they lived centuries so cut off in those hills and woods. sure thing boss, dysfunctionality and tragedy youll find everywhere ....but these people....since theyve been living so secluded, godabiding and tight knit....i guess thats why they come off as so much "normal". WELL done, david!
Your 1965 Appalachia documentry is how i found out about You & your documentaries & it is a great one. Thank You David!
Glad you went back. It's a shame you couldn't meet with the original dancers on the 1965 film.
Dear Mr. Hoffman, this was beautifully done. Thank you! As a displaced Eastern KY girl, watching videos celebrating my culture means so much to me.❤
I grew up in Roanoke, Virginia listening to Mountain Music, clogging, and square dancing (which we learned at school) (I also learned how to make moonshine in AP Chemistry 😂). The clip of the young folks dancing in Mr. L’s living room is my very favorite of your videos-it brings me pure joy. Thank you.
Thanks you Sir 🇩🇪❤️🇺🇲
Omg David it's been 58 years ago!!! Almost unbelievable! But hey that's only a "drop in the bucket" (so they say) especially compared to centuries of this rich tradition! I can hardly wait to see the full movie! You must be super proud to have been such a huge part of it (as you well should be!) Lord knows Lamar would be beaming once again! I only live about 4hrs from Madison county, sure hope to go to one of the festival's there someday! Thank You so much for this clip, it's going to be an awesome movie!✌
Loved the video. Here in Cleveland County NC, Earl Scruggs Country, the music and heritage is still alive!!
Wow! I'm 58 years old and have lived in Madison county for the last 32. I didn't expect to see my neighbors on here when I clicked on this video.
Did you know they actually offer scholarships for clogging at Mar Hill University and degrees in bluegrass and old time music at East TN State?
Shared! So rich in history, community, and heritage. ❤
Thank you for sharing my video.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Thanks Bascom Lamar Lunsford for keeping the history of the Appalachia mountains of North Carolina alive in your lifetime. Bascom Lamar Lunsford March 21, 1882 - September 4, 1973)
A rich musical centered culture that can not be allowed to perish.
It is certainly alive and active in Madison County North Carolina.
David Hoffman filmmaker
4:19 just wow! I shared this today with my grandma who grew up in the 30s in White Dell, WV
I can’t believe you was here and I missed out on meeting you lol. I commented on your video few years back about how it’s still alive down here
Very great and wonderful video. Thank you
Joyous. Went folk dancing just last night here in Brighton, UK. Long may the shared tradition out on those Blue Ridge Mountains continue.
I live in the foothills of Appalachia and I so appreciate you sharing this. Pure Joy!
Truly National Treasure material. Thanks David!!
I have watched the film several times, it is wonderful. I live in the UK.
My parents once raised horses and were into traditional square dancing. It was a heritage they did not pass down. Good on Madison County.
Hey, you made it back! I remember asking you a few years ago if you might go back to the hills and you said you didn't know
THANK YOU DAVID!!!
This was an unexpected surprise David I loved your original documentary Music Maker of the Blue Ridge with Bascom Lamar Lunsford how cool it must have been for you to revisit the actual room your shot the film in 1965 58 years later. thanks, you David Hoffman for a real treat in a musical dance piece of America's history of the North Carolina mountains.
Yeah, that was worth it. Much more so for you. It showed. 😊
As a Brit that never really visited the US for maybe more than an hour or two,there are two films I hold dear in my heart. You're own "Ballad of a Mountain Man" and Barbara Kopple's "Harlan County USA"
Much appreciated.
Thank you.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Don’t forget about Jesco White the Dancin’ Outlaw !
I have wondered about what happened over the decades since. I'm glad you went back and I enjoyed it...
Hey wait a second, is that David Hoffman filmmaker doing the square dance????😊
Yes it is.
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@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker
What joy!!!!😊
This was beautiful. What a treasure you've shared with us today.
This is fantastic! The 1958 documentary was my introduction to David's extraordinary film-making skills. From the beginning of the 21st Century I have been sharing his work. Thank you, David Hoffman, Documentarian par excellance!
Thank you, and thank you for sharing my work.
David Hoffman filmmaker
I spent a chunk of my life during the 70s in southern West Virginia between the coal fields of McDowell and Raleigh counties and the bucolic farms of Summers and Monroe counties and your films always bring back memories.
I was so hoping for an update on the people featured in the first video. Wondering about the girl in the thumbnail, the young men and women dancing. This was as Vietnam was ramping up. I've watched the first video many times it brings me back to my childhood visiting my relatives in Missouri.
An absolutely fantastic video! As someone else is from Eastern Kentucky, my relatives were too. My Pappy told me many a story from the early days and could still do a decent clog at the age of 88!
1965 was a special time. A time of hope for a better future.
These are some of my people...😎👍
The video were they clog in the living room is the best video you have and the bluegrass music 🎶 the family in north Carolina. The video shows you make a comeback to see how it has changed now. Thanks for sharing this David. 📸🪕🎻
My gosh, I have seen this one earlier one before, absolutely beautiful. So happy you went back.These are really old songs of beauty. I love this music and dances.
Do I have you wondering why, DavId?
🙏❤️🌏🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵
Interesting - the dancing is a mix of Irish dancing, clog dancing and barn dancing. Here in Norfolk UK there is a long tradition of clog dancing (or "step dancing") brought here by Irish, Scots and North English travelling labourers. It usually involved one person at a time clogging on the spot, on a board, and the complication and the speed of the steps was what got you the prize or the drinks.
Oh my God, David! What a way to start my day! Think I am still dreaming. I have been wishing for this day for years.
Thank you!
Thank you David. 💓
I only stopped in for a minute and before I knew it the video was over. Nice work.
I love you David thank you for documenting everything in life you are a legend
I'm surprised you and I didn't run across each other thru all the years I've played this music pretty much all over the east coast. I placed second in the wv state banjo contest and third in the national contest one year, we played square dances, barn dances and almost every bar and bluegrass festival from coast to coast, amazing we never met lol thanks for this video!
Thank you for posting this!
Thank you for this.
I'm so excited to watch this!
I love your work Mr. Hoffman :) I don't consider you to be as a "film maker," it is something else, a documentarian, one of the best. I would really enjoy an actual film of things in your collection, maybe Netflix would pick it up. And an extra addition would be your doing little narration about the clips between them. That would not have just your excellent films clips, but would also a documentary about you. I would watch the heck out of that!
Great mini-documentary David 😊
Clog 4 life!
I kinda teared up on this one David.
Love your channel 😊😊
Watching this again I notice that at 9:45 you David got into the dance. 😊👍
Still wondering if that young smiling girl is still with us, what was her name?
Thanks David I lovd this ❤
Spent the summers of my youth in Pike County Ky. I am 53 now. What a place! Wouldn’t trade it for the world!
This is amazing and i absolutely love it❤
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It is wonderful to see this return visit by you David. The original film was amazing, and holds a special place for me because I danced the Morris for 14 years, which Cecil Sharp painstakingly recorded and preserved when it was dying out. He did that for this culture as well. The joy these dancers and musicians display in their performances is infectious, you cannot listen to it without tapping your toes or wanting to dance too. The sharing of compositions among these people has kept it a living cultural tradition, and your film introduced it to so many people who would not otherwise have run across it. Thank you David, for always finding the extraordinary among ordinary people. We are all richer because you do that, and invite us to do the same.🖤🇨🇦
👍👍👍👍👍👍🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Any Recent Photos David you should make a doco of where they are now
I would love to but I have lost touch with most of them.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Those were the rich folks not my parents not sure how they made it to civilization- mom from Clay Cty KY , dad from Renick WVA …. They met at Berea College -
that’s a scholarship only college … so please give ..;) my first concert my parents brought me to was Earle Skruggs and Lester Flatt
kinda what I was thinkin, rich folks lol. probably work at the courthouse lol. i was born and raised here in the middle of W.V. my family Scott, Irish, come here way back, fought Washington and his men from stealing their liquor, still fighting them off, pricks lol.
💚 almost heaven
This was great as was the first. Did you run into the young girl who was the thumbnail on the first video? She had dimples. If so how is she
Up until recently, she was fine. I have not heard from her in the last few years.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Lamar is one of my biggest heros!!!
All so, see me play my repyou guitar /practices of tunes i do since 1968. varied and many folky songs i not know name or were got. Met Earl Scruggs review/family at black hills state college in 70's as photographer shot for bands in Rapid city/Deadwood. Bro has dads mandalin, taken Utah beach for 1 week till rehab for hands injured.14th. Bro plays bluegrass with frins, Dry Creek Diggers last but gigs with others like Wendy Wright( ) and past Billy Faire banjo with Segar,Dillon. seekers.etc. we bot his piano...
I wish my relatives didn’t
leave the Carolinas I still
have long lost cousins
living there.
Whatever happened to those kids who danced in your video in the 60s
most continued to dance together throughout their lives.
David Hoffman filmmaker
:)
Did you learn anything about the (fate of?) folks who were dancing or present in that room back in 1965?
Who that little girl with
The cute
Smile I wanna see what she
Looks like now
She continued dancing for her entire life.
David Hoffman filmmaker
i have subscribed to a few appalachia themed channels on youtube. you can mock them as the hillbillies and all but these people aint. they have their values still so right. family above everything and all. i guess thats BECAUSE they lived centuries so cut off in those hills and woods. sure thing boss, dysfunctionality and tragedy youll find everywhere ....but these people....since theyve been living so secluded, godabiding and tight knit....i guess thats why they come off as so much "normal".
WELL done, david!