Not many forms of music have “old-” actually built into their name as a prefix. So it’s a given that the practitioners of the 200-year-old genre known as “old-time music” will wear their antiquity …
Not many forms of music have “old-” actually built into their name as a prefix. So it’s a given that the practitioners of the 200-year-old genre known as “old-time music” will wear their antiquity proudly in “Fiddlin’,” a documentary set in and around the 80th annual Old Fiddler’s Convention in Galax, Va. What may not be as expected is how much directorputs the focus on the music’s teen and pre-teen virtuosos, although the geezer demographic hardly goes unrepresented.
As you’d expect, the early part of the doc spends a lot of time explaining and evangelizing for this style of music — it’s basically a rootsy sales reel, but with so many beautiful time-lapse shots of the Blue Ridge Mountains, who wouldn’t be buying? Too much time in these early reels is spent at the Fiddler’s Convention itself, where the talk is gushy and the visual opportunities limited; if you’ve seen one shot of people dancing on wooden slates — flatfoot dancing, it’s called — you’ve only...
Adversity and diversity do rear their heads, as the depression caused in local communities by the loss of manufacturing jobs is addressed. Biases against women pickers come up in interviews, which may be why the film inordinately features so many of them. Mostly, though, the music and the communities that form around it are held up as a balm. Karen Carr, of a group called the Crooked Road Ramblers, discusses struggles with mental illness until “I started messing with that daggone guitar.
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