Sprout Wings and Fly

Name: Sprout Wings and Fly
Director: Les Blank
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1983-10-01
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Tommy Jarrell

198330m

★ 6.1

DocumentaryMusic

Set in the North Carolina Appalachians, Sprout Wings and Fly honors the fiddle playing of 82-year-old Tommy Jarrell of Toast, NC. Tommy was quirky, gregarious and generous, and this film shows him at his best, in fine fiddling form.

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