The Stanly County Public Library will have an ENCORE showing of the Sundance Film Festival winning movie of mountain music. The movie will be shown on Thursday, September 29 at 6:00 pm at the Albemarle Library. Admission is free and there will be popcorn. Please call the library at 704-986-3755 for more information. This movie showing is in anticipation of the Second Annual Uwharrie Storytelling Festival on Saturday, October 1. The festivals nationally know storyteller, Sheila Kay Adams, was the signing and dialect coach for this Maggie Greenwald film starring Aidan Quinn and Janet McTier. Due to her own love of the ancient Scottish, English, and Irish ballads Adams was uniquely qualified to serve as a singing and dialect coach for this movie which tells the story of a brilliant musicologist who visits a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life – a treasure trove of ancient Scot-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. It is significant that Shelia Kay Adams is the seventh generation of her own family to carry on the singing and oral tradition.
