Monday, March 11, 2013

                   Now Available - Great Southern Old Time Fiddlers' Convention Documentary
                                                

                                                               Limited Edition DVD

                                            b/w - 53 minutes                      $10.00

       During the mid-1920's, the the biggest names in string band music and all the best old time fiddlers around gathered in Chattanooga, TN in hopes of carrying home the title -
 Champion Old Time Fiddler of the South.

    Narrated by text from newspaper articles which appeared in the Chattanooga Times and Chattanooga News and utilizing period and rare photographs, the early days of this historic convention come to life on the screen.

                 Featuring Gid Tanner, Clayton McMichen, Riley Puckett, Uncle Dave Macon and
                 A.A. Gray, as well as hometown favorites "Sawmill" Tom Smith, Jess Young, Bob
                 Douglas and Lowe Stokes.

    - Presented by the Chattanooga Old Fiddlers Association -


 
                                              Group of Fiddlers at Chattanooga Contest 1926

Clayton McMichen, Lowe Stokes, Gid Tanner, E.E. Akins, Homer Davenport, Bert Layne
 
J.H. Gaston - early promoter of Chattanooga Fiddlers Conventions