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Folklife Database: Friday performances at the 1975 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2)

Item Type:
Sound
Series Number/Title S1576
Container
Item Audio recording
Item ID Number T79-15 (To download MP3s, see Note field below)
Item Title Friday performances at the 1975 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2)
Program/Event Florida Folk Festival
Date/Date Range 08/29/1975
Collector/Fieldworker Florida Folklife Program
Tradition Bearer Malkine, Sonia
Lazonby, Lance
Gerard, Bob
Kershner, Joseph
Kelly, Lee
Kelly, Peggy
Waddell, Lenora
Skip Johns and the Travelers
Williamson, John
Smith, Ernest A. Frog, 1896-1993
Whatley, Carolton
Bullard, Jerry Lawrence
Hancock, Elliot
Beseda Dancers
Quimby, Frankie, 1937-
Jones, Bessie, 1902-1984
Moore, Michael
Georgia Sea Island Singers
Boltin, Thelma, 1904-1992
Genre/Occupation Singers
Musicians
Dancers
Bands (Music)
Storytellers
Guitarist
Bluegrass musicians
Title of Work Revenge of Machines & Black Jack Davey (Sonia Malkine)
Long Black Veil (Lance Lazonby)
Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
Maple on the Hill
Simple Gifts (Bob Gerard & Joseph Kershner)
Goodnight Irene
Gilgary Mountain
Careless Love (Lee & Peggy Kelly)
Fathers Whiskers
The Children and the Flowers (Lenora Waddell with Skip Johns & Travelers)
Midnight Blues
Break My Mind
Let Me Be There
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
I Saw the Light (sing along with audience)
Down Yonder (John Williamson)
Wildwood Flower
Twenty-one Years
Ghost Riders in the Sky (Lance Lazonby)
What is Your Mamas Name
Paradise
Stories (Frog Smith)
Hillbilly Auctioneer (Carolton Whatley)
Heart to Heart
Yall Come
When the Work is All Done This Fall (Jerry Bullard)
Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night
Old Blue
Old Slough Foot (Skip Johns & Travelers)
Blue Moon of Kentucky
My Walking Shoes Do Not Fit Me Anymore
Dueling Banjos
Give the Fiddler a Dram (Elliot Hancock)
Cumberland Gap
Butcher Boy
Dance music (Beseda Dancers)
Nova Scotia (Caney Forkers)
The Unfortunate Man
Rothsea
I am So Glad I am Here (Georgia Sea Island Singers: Bessie Jones & Doug Quimby)
Amazing Grace
Daniel in the Lions Den
This is a Good Religion
The Miners Child (Michael Moore)
Roving Gambler
Old Number Nine
Subject Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Singing
Musicians
Dance music
Religious music
Old time music
Gospel music
African Americans
Gospel (Black)
Bluegrass music
Spirituals (Songs)
Guitar music
French Americans
Folk songs, French
Songs, French
Bluegrass musicians
Stringband music
Place Name White Springs (Fla.)
Hamilton County (Fla.)
Corporate/Conference Name Florida Folklife Program
Stephen Foster Center
Florida Folk Festival
General Note/Comment Field One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Malkine was from Shady, New York. Lazonby was from Hawthorne. Gerard and Kershner was from Lake City. The Kellys were from Palatka. Skip Johns and his band were from Lake City, and Waddell hailed from Jacksonville. Williamson was from Palatka. Frog Smith told stories, and was from Fort Myers. Whatley, of Bell, sang country music. Bullard lived in White Springs. Hancock played the mouth harp and was from Suffolk, Virginia. The Beseda Dancers were from the Czechoslovakian American community Masaryktown. The Caney were from Cookeville, Tennessee. Bessie Jones and Frankie Quimby, both of Brunswick, Georgia, later became known as the Georgia Sea Island Singers. Moore sang ballads, and lived in Green Cove Springs.

The song "Daniel in the Lion's Den", performed by Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers is available on the Sacred Music page.

As this is a large reel, it has been broken up into four MP3 files. Download (MP3 part one) (MP3 part two) (MP3 part three) (MP3 part four)
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