Overview

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.

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Cast

Janet McTeer

Professor Lily Penleric, PhD

Michael Goodwin

Professor Wallace Aldrich, PhD

Jane Adams

Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric

E. Katherine Kerr

Harriet Tolliver

Emmy Rossum

Deladis Slocumb

Pat Carroll

Viney Butler

Stephanie Roth Haberle

Alice Kincaid

Aidan Quinn

Tom Bledsoe

Bart Hansard

Hilliard

David Patrick Kelly

Earl Giddens

Michael Harding

Reese Kincaid

Taj Mahal

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