The Mountain Minor Live Performance and Movie

Inspired by a true story set in Jackson County, Kentucky, The Mountain Minor is an award-winning film spanning five generations of an Appalachian family and the power of the old-time music that sustained them. Join us on Sunday, May 7, when filmmaker Dale Farmer and cast member Ma Crow (The Farmer and the Crow) will perform live before the screening and have a Q&A afterward. 

"...a film that's touched many who have managed to see it." - American Songwriter Magazine

"...soars with music and poignant message" - Kentucky Living Magazine

The Mountain Minor is the story of a life-worn Charlie Abner,  as he struggles with leaving his present life and family in Cincinnati, Ohio to return to the Jackson County, Kentucky Mountain home and musical heritage that once defined him. The story is partially told in flashbacks to Depression era Eastern Kentucky, when Charlie’s parents, Oza and Vestal Abner, face the difficult decision to leave the way of life they know and move to Ohio for employment and better opportunities. This film is unique in that all of its principal actors are traditional musicians—such as Smithsonian Folkways artist Elizabeth LaPrelle and acclaimed banjoist and fiddler Dan Gellert—and they perform all of the music in the film.