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- Title
- Maple on the Hill - The Untold Story of the Tumbleweeds
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
Although The Tumbleweeds toured beyond Otago only occasionally, they provided many New Zealanders with their first exposure to country music. Almost 40 years into the band's career, Stephen Latty (Opera in the Outback) got some of their songs and memories down for this half-hour film. The band describe influences, costumes, and their own mid-tour double wedding. Country music expert Garth Gibson praises the "quite famous harmony sound" of sisters Myra and Nola Hewitt. Then The Tumbleweeds hit...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1988
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/maple-on-the-hill-1988
- Related subjects
- dunedin / country / gardens tavern / garth gibson / hawaiian serendaders / hawaiian serenaders / sol hoopii / wilf carter / girls of the golden west / hank snow / millie good / dolly good / dorothy good / gore guitar awards / warratahs / gold guitar awards / gore / murdoch riley / viking records / hank williams / leo padman / hula / dusty spittle / jim ditchfield / nola mccrorie / myra wilson / myra hewitt / nola hewitt / cole wilson / colin mccrorie / tanza / folsom city blues / viking / lap steel / steel guitar / hawaiian guitar / sol ho'opi'i
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