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Friday morning performances at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Type:

Sound

Date:

05/06/1966

Item:

Audio recording

Series:

S1576

Item ID:

T77-154

Download: MP3

Event Name

Collector or Fieldworker

Tradition Bearer

Genre or Occupation

Title of Work

  • Welcome (Saunders)
  • Maypole Dance (Madison Elementary)
  • Old Folks at Home (Wiggin Sisters)
  • Does Your Chewing Gum Lost Its Flavor
  • Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby (Tomlin)
  • Beaster, Beaster, Miney Moore (Douglas High School)
  • Looby Loo
  • Patriotic Fantasy (Kirby-Smith Elementary)

Place Name

Corporate or Conference Name

Subject

General Note/Comment

  • One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. The Wiggins Sisters (Betsy and Hallie) played the bottlephone, a musical instrument using hanging bottles that were struck to produce a sound. This was popular storyteller Tomlin's (of White Springs) last festival. She passed away later the same month.

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