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Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger

Date: 1991-06-21
Description: Two DAT tapes. This was the third visit by folklorist Stone; recorded at Groth's residence. Consists of a rehearsal (tape 14) and an interview with Groth (tape 14 and 15). The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2004.
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Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger

Bill Dillon performing at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Date: 1987-05-22
Description: One reel to reel recording. Dudley served as emcee (and joined in on guitar on some of the songs)
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Bill Dillon performing at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Bill Dillon playing the autoharp at the 1988 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Date: 1988-05-29
Description: One reel to reel recording.
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Bill Dillon playing the autoharp at the 1988 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Dale Crider performing at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Date: 1992-05-23
Description: One reel to reel recording. Crider, the emcee, filled in for the absent gospel group, the Versiteers. On a couple of songs, Bill Dillon sat in on the autoharp (chorded zither).
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Dale Crider performing at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Fiddler Billy Bryan performing at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Date: 1989-05-27
Description: One reel to reel recording. Rosenberg served as emcee. After the music performance, Rosenberg explained about the folklife area.
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Fiddler Billy Bryan performing at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Friday evening performances at the 1963 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Date: 1963-05-03
Description: One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee.The first half of the reel consists of Friday afternoon performances. (The division between afternoon and evening performances is unclear in the records. This is an approximate divison.)
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Friday evening performances at the 1963 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Friday evening performances at the 1979 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Date: 1979-05-25
Description: One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Bagpiper Hamilton, from Starke and a Florida Times-Union reporter, played first. The Bucksnort Barndance Band and the cloggers were both from Gainesville. Kloiber, at the time a law student at the University of Virginia, was from West Palm Beach; Gerard, a speech graduate student at the University of Tampa, was from Lake City. They met and began playing traditional folk music while students at Florida State University. Dekle was from Macclenny. McKinney and Alvarez were violinists from Starke. At the time Evelyn lived in Petersburg, New York. Popular on the folk circuit in the 1960s, she performed with late husband Bob (and later daughter Martha)as the popular folk act, the Beers Family. They were sent in 1968 by the U.S. Dept. of State on a tour on India, and once played for the White House in 1969. In 1966, they also began the popular Fox Hollow Festival in upstate New York. In 1972, Bob Beers died in a car crash. His daughter stil
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Friday evening performances at the 1979 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

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

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1975-08-29

Description

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.

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

Friday performances at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 2)

Date: 1993-05-28
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT). Louis served as emcee.
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Friday performances at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 2002 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 3)

Date: 2002-05-24
Description: One compact disc.
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Friday performances at the 2002 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 3)

	Identifier	Title	Type	Subject
a_s1640_22_tape14	Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger	Sound	Fieldwork Apprentices Zither Autoharp String instruments Musical instruments German Americans Women apprentices Music rehearsals Old time music Country music Interviews Life histories Personal experience narratives Harpists Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t87-095	Bill Dillon performing at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Music performance Old time music Singing Autoharp music Zither Singers Musicians Harpists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t88-102	Bill Dillon playing the autoharp at the 1988 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)	Sound	Singers Harpists Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Music performance Autoharp music Old time music Zither Bluegrass music Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_t92-081	Dale Crider performing at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)	Sound	Singers Guitarist Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Performances Folk singers Guitar music Music performance Guitarists Composers Autoharp music Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_t89-062	Fiddler Billy Bryan performing at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Music performance Fiddles Fiddle music Fiddlers Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t77-136b	Friday evening performances at the 1963 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Folk singers Singing Guitarists Guitar music Fiddle music Fiddling Jokes Storytelling Trickster tales Animal tales African Americans Oral narratives Singers Guitarist Fiddlers Storytellers Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t83-094	Friday evening performances at the 1979 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Musicians Old time music Singing String bands Stringband music Bluegrass music Bagpipe music Clog dancing Clogging Dance music Country music Guitar music Occupational folklore Whipcracking Demonstrations Violin music Folk singers Ballads Singers Bands (Music) Bluegrass musicians Dancers Guitarist Rodeo performers Whip maker Bagpipers Violinists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t79-015	Friday performances at the 1975 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2)	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Singing 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 Stringband music Singers Dancers Bands (Music) Storytellers Guitarist Bluegrass musicians Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_43_d93-020	Friday performances at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 2)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singing Autoharp music Stringband music Dulcimer music Guitar music Old time music String bands Banjo music Singers Musicians Guitarist Bands (Music)	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2034_01_cd02-030	Friday performances at the 2002 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 3)	Sound	Singers Musicians Bands (Music) Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singing String bands Stringband music Old time music Bluegrass musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger

Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger

Bill Dillon performing at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Bill Dillon performing at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Bill Dillon playing the autoharp at the 1988 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Bill Dillon playing the autoharp at the 1988 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Dale Crider performing at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Dale Crider performing at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Fiddler Billy Bryan performing at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Fiddler Billy Bryan performing at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Friday evening performances at the 1963 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Friday evening performances at the 1963 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Friday evening performances at the 1979 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Friday evening performances at the 1979 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

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

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

Friday performances at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 2002 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 3)

Friday performances at the 2002 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 3)

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Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger

Autoharp player Charley Groth and his apprentice Cheryl Belanger

Bill Dillon performing at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Bill Dillon performing at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Bill Dillon playing the autoharp at the 1988 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Bill Dillon playing the autoharp at the 1988 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Dale Crider performing at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Dale Crider performing at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)

Fiddler Billy Bryan performing at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Fiddler Billy Bryan performing at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Stage)

Friday evening performances at the 1963 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Friday evening performances at the 1963 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)

Friday evening performances at the 1979 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

Friday evening performances at the 1979 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)

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

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

Friday performances at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 2002 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 3)

Friday performances at the 2002 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 3)

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