A Mighty Wind

A Mighty Wind is a 2003 American mockumentary comedy-drama film about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades. The film was directed, co-written and composed by Christopher Guest. The film is thought to reference the 2003 tribute concert to folk music producer Harold Leventhal that reunited several of the folk groups that Leventhal had managed. More broadly, the film is a parody of the American folk music revival of the early 1960s and its personalities.

Guest co-stars and reunites many of his company of actors from This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, and Best in Show for this film. They include Eugene Levy (who also co-wrote the screenplay), Catherine O'Hara, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr., Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgins, Jane Lynch and Parker Posey.

Inspiration

Several characters in the film originated in a sketch written by Guest for Saturday Night Live in 1984. Shearer, Guest, and McKean appeared as "The Folksmen" on Saturday Night Live, in the movie The Return of Spinal Tap (which similarly featured the trio as a parody of an aging heavy metal band), and occasionally on concert stages. The original conception for A Mighty Wind was as a longer narrative vehicle for the fictional group.

Mighty Wind

Mighty Wind is an album that was released to celebrate gospel musician Andrae Crouch's 40th year of recording gospel music. Crouch was able to get many well-known gospel singers to guest star on the project including Marvin Winans ("All Because of Jesus"), Karen Clark-Sheard ("Jesus Is Lord"), Fred Hammond ("Oh Give Thanks") and Crystal Lewis ("We Give You Glory").

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Awards

In 2007, the album won a Dove Award for Traditional Gospel Album of the Year at the 38th GMA Dove Awards.

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