a_s1576_t87-050 | Sunday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 11) | Sound | Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Music performance Guitar music Storytellers Singing Storytelling Jack tales Country music String bands Stringband music Dance music Old time music Singers Musicians Bands (Music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_88_d01-026 | Saturday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 2) | Sound | Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Fiddling Fiddle music Contests Competitions Bluegrass music Old time music Musicians Fiddlers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Saturday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 2)
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- 2001-05-26
- Description
- One digital audio tape (DAT). Hood, president of the Florida State Fiddlers Association, served as emcee. Seaman, Pitts, Agar, Murphy, and Martin demonstrated fiddle styles, and were not in competition. The rest were competing in the junior division. The Florida State Fiddle Contest was held each year at the Festival on Saturdays (the stages varied from year to year). The winners were allowed to perform on the Main Stage that evening. The winners for 2001 were: Jonathan Hodge (contemporary); Kathy Agar & Ian Malinowksi (twin fiddle); Lloyd Baldwin (rustic); and Puck Pottsberg (junior).
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a_s1576_t77-175a | Saturday afternoon performances of the 1967 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2) | Sound | Singers Musicians Guitarist Bands (Music) Bluegrass musicians Fiddlers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t77-241 | Performances at the 1974 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3) | Sound | Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Singing Guitar music Folk singers Old time music String bands Stringband music Fiddle music Popular songs Bluegrass music Bluegrass musicians Singers Guitarist Bands (Music) Fiddlers Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_02_c78-061 | Performances and interviews with Arthur Holston, Marty Schuman, Jim Dowis, and Dick Hunt | Sound | Sound recordings Music performance Old time music String bands Stringband music Country music Interviews Singers Musicians Bluegrass musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Performances and interviews with Arthur Holston, Marty Schuman, Jim Dowis, and Dick Hunt
- Date
- 1960-01
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Recordings of interviews and music performances by a string band in Otter Creek. Includes interviews with the band members about their music and Otter Creek. Recorded in January 1960, May 1960, and January 1962 by Marty Schuman, who also played with them. The band consisted of Holston (fiddle); Schuman (banjo); Hunt (guitar); and Davis.
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a_s1618_05_tape07 | Jack Piccalo and Richard Seaman performance for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Field recordings Music--Performance Fiddle tunes String band music Old time music Bluegrass music | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_02_c78-042 | Interview with Nancy and Ray Morgan on making hog's head cheese and fiddling | Sound | Cooks Interviews Fiddle music Instrument manufacture Gourds Life histories Swine Food preparation Animals Food Fiddlers Musical instrument maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Nancy and Ray Morgan on making hog's head cheese and fiddling
- Date
- 1977-11-08
- Description
- One audio cassette. Side 1: Interview of Nancy Morgan: Morgan discusses both making hog's headcheese and her life's history. She talks about how long she had been making the head cheese, butchering hogs, the parts she uses, how she boils the head, dressing the hog, and special recipes like liver pudding, chitlins and cracklins, pig's feet, and beef tripe, etc. She also describes growing up in Fargo, Georgia, related weather and insects, her family's ethnic heritage, and talks about how her father taught her old songs and performed at various venues. She sings "Little Orphan Girl" and "Wake Up Jacob" without instrumentals. Side 2: Interview of Ray Morgan, with Nancy Morgan: [Difficult to hear-voices indistinct.] Ray Morgan talks about how he and Nancy met and on making and playing gourd fiddles. Plays the gourd and regular fiddle.
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a_s1576_t78-322 | Interview and music performance with fiddlers Horace Fletcher and Robert Blackwelder | Sound | Interviewing Interviews Old time music Fieldwork Fiddle music Fiddling String instruments Life histories Oral histories Personal experience narratives Reels Dance music Fiddlers Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview and music performance with fiddlers Horace Fletcher and Robert Blackwelder
- Date
- 1978-04-22
- Description
- Two reel to reel recordings. Blackwelder began fiddling at 18, a self-taught musician. Born in 1910 in Bradford County, he was in the citrus business. His influences included Chubby Wise and Broward Green. In the recordings, Blackwelder discusses his life and fiddling styles. He plays several fiddle tunes.
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a_s1576_t79-014 | Friday performances at the 1975 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1) | Sound | Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Singing Dance music Religious music Old time music Gospel music Hornpipes Dulcimer music Harmonica music Yodeling Guitar music Banjo music Folk songs, French French Americans Songs, French Singers Dancers Bands (Music) Harmonica players Guitarist Banjoists Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Friday performances at the 1975 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)
- Date
- 1975-08-29
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Seafood Combo was from Tallahassee, and consisted of Tony Verderamo (accordian); Larry Abrams (violin/mandolin); and Pam Mansfield (tambourine). Alachua County Older American Council square-danced. Muller was from Lake Mary. The Mitchells played the dulcimer, and were from Washington DC. Tillinghast was from Hollywood, Florida. Dunscombe of Gainesville played the musical saw. The Folksdancing, of Sarasota, consisted of the Whitehead family. Deacon Dan Smith, from White Plains, New York, played the harmonica. The Makley Family were from Jacksonville, and Nick Hallman was from Greenville, South Carolina. The Caney Forkers were from Cookeville, Tennessee and consisted of: Mike & Jeanette Kasnia; Graham, Betty, Heather, and Holly Kash. Johnson was from Gainesville. The Beadnells were from Orange Park. Fiddlers Zeke and Rosa Stephens were from Panama City. The Boyers from Webster Grove, Missouri (and the family of folk singer Bob Beers' sister). Banjoist Cadwell hailed from Jackson Heights, New York. Battle was from Tampa -- this was his first festival. Malkine was from Shady, New York.
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a_s1576_t77-182 | Friday afternoon performances at the 1968 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2) | Sound | Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Singing Guitar music Dance Old time music Fiddle music Bluegrass music Folk singers Boat drivers Oral performance African Americans Singers Boat driver Guitarist Fiddlers Children Dancers Charter boat captains Girl Scouts Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Friday afternoon performances at the 1968 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2)
- Date
- 1968-05-03
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Singer Jeanie Fitchen at the time was billed as Eugenia Sisinni. The Three Songsters were Girl Scouts (Linda, Ellen, and Ann). Blake was from New York. Locket drove glass-bottom boats at Rainbow Springs. Here, he gave an example of his boat tours. He passed away later the same year. The Stephens were from Panama City. Ballew and Sisinni were both from Orlando. The Beadnells were from Orange Park. The A. C. Reynold School Square Dancers were from Asheville, NC.
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