View showing folk musicians performing at the 1970 Florida Folk Festival - White Springs, Florida.

Title

• View showing folk musicians performing at the 1970 Florida Folk Festival - White Springs, Florida.

Image Number

• JB00567

Year

• 1970

Series Title

• General: John Buckley collection.
• Specific: John Buckley collection Series/Collection number: N2008- 14, Photographic collection, 1969-1976 ; Box 2, A00035C

General Note

• Johnnie Bonds (left) from Live Oak was born on March 17, 1915. He was a member of the Suwannee River Playboys, The Virginia Boys, The Clinch Mountain Boys, and played with The Suwannee River Boys at the 1985 Suwannee River Jamboree. For many years he also performed for the Suwannee River Jamboree radio program broadcast from Live Oak, Florida on local radio station WNER. Johnnie Bonds died on July 9, 2003.

Biography Note

• Photographer John Buckley grew up in Newport, Rhode Island and lived with his family for a time in Canada before moving to Panama City in the early 1950s. It was in Florida schools that he became acutely aware of racism and segregation in the Deep South. These experiences would have a lasting effect on his later life as an activist and photographer. He attended Florida State University from 1963 until 1967 and graduated with a degree in physics. While at FSU, he became deeply involved in political and social movements. In addition to taking pictures, he helped organize workers' strikes in Tallahassee and worked as a platform speaker and photographer for civil rights demonstrations, anti-war rallies, anti-nuclear demonstrations, and women's rights demonstrations. John Buckley passed away on December 7, 2008.

Photographer

• Buckley, John, d. 2008.

Physical Description

• 1 photonegative - b&w - 35 mm.

Subject Term

• Folk festivals--Florida--White Springs
• Festivals--Florida--White Springs
• Manners and customs
• Recreation--Florida--White Springs
• Instrumentalists
• Folk musicians
• Musicians--Florida--White Springs
• Entertainers--Florida--White Springs
• Music--Performance
• Performing arts--Florida--White Springs
• Men--Florida--White Springs
• Arts (Performing)--Florida--White Springs
• Folklore revival festivals--Florida--White Springs
• Practices
• Community rites--Florida--White Springs
• Festivals, Events and Conferences

Geographic Term

• White Springs (Fla)
• Hamilton County (Fla)

Personal Subject

• Bonds, Johnnie, 1915-2003

Subject Meeting

• Florida Folk Festival, (1970)

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