Down from the Mountain

The documentary records a concert. It was given on the twenty fourth of May in 2000. The place is the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The programme rests on the music of the film O Brother, Where Art Thou. The songs were played live on stage. The concert was put on as a benefit night. What it raised went to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Many names came on stage. Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris were among them. Gillian Welch and Ralph Stanley were there as well. The camera shows what happens backstage too. Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris appear in the ninety eight minute documentary. Chris Hegedus, Nick Doob and D. A. Pennebaker directed it, an American production of 2001.