Special features of this DVD: widescreen presentation, 5.1 Dolby Digital, production commentary, trailer, featurette, extended scenes, music only track, interactive menus, chapter search.

Originally released by Songcatcher Films, 1999.

Director of photography, Enrique Chediak ; production designer, Ginger Tougas ; film editor, Keith Reamer ; original score and musical direction, David Mansfield.

Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Pat Carroll, Jane Adams.

When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over, again, for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. While there, Lily, discovers a wellspring of emotional "love songs" (ballads) that have been passed down through generations from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who have settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, and the recording of them as well, she is profoundly changed by the generosity, strength and freedom of the fiercely proud mountain people.

MPAA rating: PG-13 : for homosexual content and an intense scene of childbirth.

DVD.

Audio track in English ; subtitled in English, French and Spanish ; closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Sundance Film Festival; Special Jury Prize (Outstanding Ensemble Performance).