Will & Deni Films creates award-winning documentaries, TV series, and music videos. Their Emmy-nominated series David Holt's State of Music features current and emerging masters of acoustic music. It has run for six seasons on PBS. For more info, please visit: DavidHoltStateofMusicPBS and DavidHoltTV.org. Their latest project is a new series for PBS, My Music with Rhiannon Giddens. For more info, please visit: MyMusicWithRhiannonGiddensPBS and MyMusicWithRhiannonGiddens
My Music with Rhiannon Giddens: Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur “genius grant” recipient Rhiannon Giddens hosts this PBS series of musical performances and conversations with outstanding guest artists. Season 2, which premiered in May 2024, featured performers from Silkroad Ensemble and their original compositions for "American Railroad", Rhiannon's first major project as Silkroad artistic director.
Premiering in 2015, Emmy-nominated David Holt's State of Music has been aired by PBS affiliates in all fifty states. Four-time Grammy winner David Holt hosts this series of performances and conversations with current masters of traditional music from the Southern mountains. Featured artists have included Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo', Rhiannon Giddens, Molly Tuttle, The Kruger Brothers, Steep Canyon Rangers, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Ruthie Foster, Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley, and Darrell Scott.
As a contractor for theUS Forest Service, FIND Outdoors manages some of the most beautiful public lands in the United States. Its predecessor was the first school of forestry in America, the Cradle of Forestry, founded by German immigrant Carl A. Schenck in 1896 on George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate. FIND recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, and this video was created to help mark that event.