Dalsheimer, Kenny

Filmmaker Kenny Dalsheimer (1960-) of Durham, N.C., has made several documentaries, including Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway (1997) and Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues (1999).

From the description of Kenny Dalsheimer collection, 1997-1999. WorldCat record id: 46308018

Filmmaker Kenny Dalsheimer was born 29 May 1960 in Baltimore, Md. In 1982, he received a bachelors of arts from Connecticut College. Dalsheimer moved to Durham, N.C., in 1983 to do graduate work in anthropology at Duke University. Following graduate school, he taught middle school for ten years at the Carolina Friends School before leaving to become a freelance documentary filmmaker. His first effort was Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway (1997), which looks at the grassroots of stock car racing.

Following the success of that film, he was approached by Jamie Hysjulien, a teacher at the Carolina Friends School, who had met blues musician Richard Trice and thought that his connection to Durham's blues scene would be a great subject for a documentary. Dalsheimer and Hysjulien made Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues in 1999. The film traces Trice's life as a blues musician and follows him after he stopped playing the blues for religious reasons.

From the guide to the Kenny Dalsheimer Collection (#20320), 1997-1999, (Southern Folklife Collection)