O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?: Cast to Reunite at Nashville Film Festival for 20th Anniversary Event

O Brother, Where Art Thou? Cast to Reunite For Anniversary Performance

The Nashville Film Festival will celebrate the rapidly approaching 20th anniversary of the release of O Brother, Where Art Thou? with an online reunion of the main cast, plus musical performances from artists who appeared on the soundtrack.

George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and Chris Thomas King are slated to reunite at the virtual event, which is part of the festival’s Oct. 1-7 proceedings. King will reprise his musical performance as a guitarist from the film in addition to being interviewed.

Also performing will be Dan Tyminski of Alison Krauss & Union Station, who provided Clooney’s “Soggy Bottom Boys” singing voice on “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” and other songs in the film and two members of the Carter family whose early 20th century sound was repopularized by the film: Carlene Carter and her daughter Tiffany Anastasia Lowe. Kathleen Edwards and the Dead South will perform as well.

The panel will include memories from the making of the film twenty years ago but also examine how the score popularized the folk, bluegrass and Americana scenes on its way to winning the Grammy for album of the year.

“The Nashville Film Festival is honored to host this incredible lineup of actors and musicians and pay tribute to one of the most beloved and revered films of our time,”  commented Jason Padgitt, executive director of the Nashville Film Festival. “This special online event explores and celebrates the incredible contributions of this film, along with its impact on popular music and culture.”

The event is free to Nashville Film Festival pass holders; and tickets just for the “O Brother” event can be purchased for $12 at nashvillefilmfestival.org/2020-festival/. The festival is holding its 51st iteration this year, which despite the pandemic will feature more than 200 online film screenings and events.

Variety magazine will be cosponsoring the reunion event along with the music publishing company Peermusic — a staple in Nashville since 1928. Steven Gaydos, Variety’s executive VP of content, will moderate the event.

The original film was a loose adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey set in the 1930s American South featuring three vocally gifted convicts on the run (Clooney, Turturro, Nelson), famed for its bluegrass soundtrack.

In 2016, the Nashville Film Festival received over 6,700 submissions from 125 countries and programmed 271 films. Attendance has grown to nearly 43,000 since its founding in 1969.

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