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After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.
Keywords
musical
woman director
Casts

Janet McTeer
Professor Lily Penleric, PhD

Michael Goodwin
Professor Wallace Aldrich, PhD
Gregory Russell Cook
Fate Honeycutt

Jane Adams
Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric

E. Katherine Kerr
Harriet Tolliver

Emmy Rossum
Deladis Slocumb

Pat Carroll
Viney Butler

Stephanie Roth Haberle
Alice Kincaid

Aidan Quinn
Tom Bledsoe

Bart Hansard
Hilliard
Erin Blake Clanton
Polly

David Patrick Kelly
Earl Giddens
Kristin Hall
Isabel

Michael Harding
Reese Kincaid

Taj Mahal
Dexter Speaks

Iris DeMent
Rose Gentry

Rhoda Griffis
Clementine McFarland
Michael Davis
Dean Arthur Pembroke
Crews

Jonathan Sehring
Executive Producer
Marthe Pineau
Set Decoration
Wendy Sax
Co-Producer

Maggie Greenwald
Director
Ellen Parks
Casting
Elizabeth Finkelstein
Associate Producer
Ginger Tougas
Production Design
Jennifer Roth
Co-Producer
David Mansfield
Original Music Composer
Tracy Kilpatrick
Casting
Molly Mikula
Art Direction
Keith Reamer
Editor
Caroline Kaplan
Executive Producer

Enrique Chediak
Director of Photography
Patrick Allen
Associate Producer
Richard Miller
Producer

Maggie Greenwald
Writer
Lisa Vandever
Associate Producer
Vivian Hasbrouk
Casting

Kasia Walicka Maimone
Costume Design
Ellen Rigas-Venetis
Producer
Sheila K. Adams
Vocal Coach
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