Beth Harrington is an Emmy-winning, Grammy-nominated independent producer, director and writer whose work focuses on American history, music and culture.

Her feature The Winding Stream – The Carters, The Cashes and The Course of Country Music premiered at SXSW and has won many top festival awards. Beth’s independent production Welcome to the Club – The Women of Rockabilly, a music documentary about the pioneering women of rock ‘n’ roll, was honored with a 2003 Grammy nomination and has been seen on public television and at film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. Earlier work with WGBH-Boston for the NOVA series was honored with two national Emmy nominations, while a series of history films she’s made for Oregon Public Broadcasting has resulted in six regional Emmy nominations and a win for her 2018 film Fort Vancouver in the Best Historical/Cultural Program category.

A rock ‘n’ roll musician, she is most noted for her years as a member of Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers on Sire Records.