• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1972-07-01
  • Runtime86 minutes
  • TaglineNot Available
  • RevenueNot Available
  • GenreDocumentary, Music
  • Production
    CompaniesWashington Film Group
  • BudgetNot Available

Movie Overview

Capturing the sights, sounds, and magic of Carlton Haney’s 1971 Labor Day Festival in Camp Springs, North Carolina; a three-day outdoor festival—the first of its kind—featuring bluegrass veterans and future stars alike sharing the primitive wood and cinder block stage. More than just capturing one of the largest bluegrass festivals of that decade, this documentary is also an interesting mixture of live performances, interviews, impromptu jam sessions and crowd footage of live music set in a small town surrounded by the now long gone red clay and tobacco shacks of North Carolina.

Casts

Earl Scruggs

Ralph Stanley

J.D. Crowe

Del McCoury

Roy Acuff

Sam Bush

Bobby Osborne

Tony Rice