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Folklife Database: Friday evening performances at the 1962 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2)

Item Type:
Sound
Series Number/Title S1576
Container
Item Audio recording
Item ID Number T77-118 (MP3)
Item Title Friday evening performances at the 1962 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2)
Program/Event Florida Folk Festival
Date/Date Range 05/04/1962
Collector/Fieldworker Stephen Foster Center
Barnes, Foster, 1903-1972
Tradition Bearer Boltin, Thelma, 1904-1992
Beaver, Fred, 1911-1980
Gautam, A. Abhayadev
Kirkland, Dr. Edwin, 1902-1972
DeVane, Jessie Belle, 1909-1976
Bowlegs, Billie, 1863-1965
McDaniel, Leroy
Whitehead, Cubby, 1903-1967
J.R.E. Lee School (Jasper, Fla.)
Genre/Occupation Singers
Musicians
Students
Children
Drummers (Musicians)
Title of Work Creek Social Chant (Beaver)
Parakha, Parakha Sangai Jano HO (Wail My Dear, We Both Will Go Together) (Gautam)
Brithday Celebration for Billie Bowlegs(Devane/Beaver/Boltin/Bowlegs)
Brer Rabbit Tale (Boltin)
Stonewall Turnipseed (McDaniel)
Sit Down Servant (JRE Lee School)
Subject Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Musicians
Drum music
Singing
Nepalese Americans
Drum performance
Native Americans
Creek Indians
Seminole Indians
Birthday rites
Calendar rites
Choruses
Students
Storytelling
Animal tales
Trickster tales
Place Name White Springs (Fla.)
Hamilton County (Fla.)
Corporate/Conference Name Florida Folk Festival
Stephen Foster Center
General Note/Comment Field One reel to reel recording. Boltin (and Kirkland) served as emcee. Gautam, a Nepalese American student at the University of Florida, played the Nepalese drum. It was Bowlegs' 100th birthday party (according to the proceedings).

The song "Parakha, Parakha, Sangai Jano Ho" performed by A. Abhayadev Gautam is available on the Asian section of the Folklife audio page.

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