Sprout Wings and Fly

Director: Les Blank

Institute History

  • 1985 Sundance Film Festival

Description

Sprout Wings and Fly is a 30-minute documentary by Les Blank, which follows another American original, 83-year old fiddler and bluegrass musician Tommy Jarrell. As Mr. Jarrell puts it in the film, winking over his bifocals, “Why hell fire, you ain’t got to go home yet.”

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