The New Main Street Singers

A Mighty Wind was a 2003 mockumentary about a folk music reunion concert and the three groups that must come together to perform on national television for the first time in years. The film was directed (and co-written) by prolific

A Mighty Wind was a 2003 mockumentary about a folk music reunion concert and the three groups that must come together to perform on national television for the first time in years. The film was directed (and co-written) by prolific "mockumentarian" Christopher Guest. The title probably alludes to the folk standard Wasn't That A Mighty Storm and an article of the same name, subtitled The World's Hippest Geezers, about the reunion, in 2000, of the aging original members of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, including Fritz Richmond, at a Cambridge, Massachusetts folk music club to celebrate an ASCAP Foundation lifetime achievement award to folkie Eric Von Schmidt.

Guest's familiar cast of actors return from This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, and Best in Show for this film—Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr., Jennifer Coolidge, Paul Dooley, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Rachael Harris, Don Lake, Jane Lynch, Larry Miller, Jim Piddock, and Parker Posey are just a few of the actors who are returning to do their second, third, or even fourth film with Guest.