Midnight Ham Pictures
present
Ahmet Nafiz Baycu was born in Ankara, Turkey fifty-five years ago. He immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of seven. In his early twenties Ahmet discovered old-time American fiddle music and moved to Vermont to pursue a lifestyle which embodied the spirit of the music he loved.
For almost thirty years, Ahmet has been living sparsely, growing most of his food and working six weeks out of the year at an old cider mill. He is completely dedicated to a rural way of life and believes that old-time American string band music cannot be played in the right spirit if the attitude of the musician is not cultivated by a self-sufficient existence.
During the documentary video short, In the Brook Where I Belong, we learn how Ahmet acquired his first fiddle. We hear the music of The Bogstompers (with Ahmet fiddling) and see the landscape and way of life which shapes the music that Ahmet and his friends perform on the streets and in the fields of the central mountains of Vermont.
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