| a_s1576_t77-046b | Saturday evening performances at the 1956 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1) | Sound | Accordionists
Guitarist
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Polka music
Accordion music
Guitar music
Choir singing
Choirs (music)
Religious songs
Singing
Musicians
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t77-043 | Saturday morning performances at the 1956 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1) | Sound | Accordionists
Guitarist
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Accordion music
Guitar music
Musicians
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Saturday morning performances at the 1956 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 1)
- Date
- 1956-05-05
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. Detailed information on the performers can be found on the 1956 festival program, located in S 1619, box 1. Tomazin played the accordion, and the Kerseys and Hart played guitar. The Jacksonville College of Music presented a program of Stephen Foster music.
- Collection
| a_s2042_sfm_73 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Jeanie Auditions (1965) | Sound | Accordionists
Dancers
Radio
Documentaries Radio
Radio programs, Public service
Competitions
Singing
Contests
Talent shows
Popular songs
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Radio announcing
Advertising, Public service
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Jeanie Auditions (1965)
- Date
- 1965-03
- Description
- One reel to reel recording (13:30 minutes). Radio program about the 1965 Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair competition, featuring the winner Graham singing the Foster song. These radio programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music. One reel to reel recording. Starting in 1951, each February, the Stephen Foster Memorial and the Florida Federation of Music Clubs sponsored a competition aimed at young female vocalists. The winner was dubbed that year's "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair." A ball was also held in association with the contest. Starting in 1954, winners were awarded musical scholarships, and a spot on the Florida Folk Festival program.
- Collection
| a_s2043_00060 | 9th Anniversary celebration of the Stephen Foster Museum | Sound | Anniversaries
Museums
Performing arts
Music performance
Concerts
Singing
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
9th Anniversary celebration of the Stephen Foster Museum
- Date
- 1959-10-04
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. In 1935, the Florida Legislature designated "Old Folks at Home" (often referred to as "Way Down Upon the Suwannee River") as Florida's state song. Over the next two decades, several Floridians began to push for a memorial to the song's composer, Stephen Collins Foster, considered by many to be the nation's first commercial songwriter. Finally, after the efforts of the Florida Federation of Music Clubs, the state opened the Stephen Foster Memorial, a 250-acre state-owned park, in White Springs, Florida in 1950, and would eventually comprise a bell tower, a Stephen Foster Museum, landscaped park grounds, and an annual Florida Folk Festival, along with other public programs. That same year, the state created the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission to administer the development and maintenance of the park.
- Collection
| a_s2042_sfm_61 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Hodges & Music (15-minute version) | Sound | Archivists
Curators
Authors
Radio
Documentaries Radio
Radio programs, Public service
Performing arts
Singing
Choir singing
Choirs (music)
Music performance
Radio announcing
Advertising, Public service
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Choruses
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Hodges & Music (15-minute version)
- Date
- 1963-10
- Description
- One reel to reel recording (13:11 minutes). Story about Foster scholar Fletcher Hodges, Jr., who was the curator of Foster Hall at the University of Pittsburgh, and author of a Foster biography. Hodges was a native of Indiana, where he was asked in 1932 to curate the Eli Lilly and Co.'s collection of Foster materials (20,000 items). He moved with the collection to the University of Pittsburgh in 1937. Also features performances of songs by Foster. There is also a 30-minute version. These radio programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
| a_s2042_sfm_62 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Hodges & Music (30-minute version) | Sound | Archivists
Curators
Authors
Radio
Documentaries Radio
Radio programs, Public service
Performing arts
Singing
Choir singing
Choirs (music)
Music performance
Radio announcing
Advertising, Public service
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Choruses
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Hodges & Music (30-minute version)
- Date
- 1963-10
- Description
- One reel to reel recording (28 minutes). Story about Foster scholar Fletcher Hodges, Jr., who was the curator of Foster Hall at the University of Pittsburgh, and author of a Foster biography. Hodges was a native of Indiana, where he was asked in 1932 to curate the Eli Lilly and Co.'s collection of Foster materials (20,000 items). He moved with the collection to the University of Pittsburgh in 1937. Also features performances of songs by Foster. There is also a 15-minute version. These radio programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
| a_s2043_00253 | Billy Vaughn performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial | Sound | Audiotape recordings
Saxophone music
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Jazz music
Saxophone music (Jazz)
Concerts
Music performance
Performing arts
Singers
Jazz musicians
Saxophonists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Billy Vaughn performing at the Stephen Foster Memorial
- Date
- 1959
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Concert by jazz saxophonist Vaughn. In 1959, he recorded at LP for Dot Records, Billy Vaughn Plays Stephen Foster (DOT 3260). Born in Glasgow, Kentucky, Vaughn began his career with the Hilltoppers as a vocalist. He then moved to the saxophone, covering instrumentals as an orchestra leader. He was known for his twin saxophone sound.
- Collection
| a_s2043_00260 | Hymns of the Month | Sound | Audiotape recordings
Religious music
Religious songs
Hymns
Singing
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t77-021 | Monday afternoon performances at the 1955 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 4) | Sound | Bands (Music)
Singers
Dancers
Musicians
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Performing arts
Singing
Hula (Dance)
Hawaiian guitar
String bands
Punch and Judy
Puppet theater
Puppets
Folklorists
Puppeteers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t77-271 | Banjoist Fred Brauner playing Stephen Foster songs | Sound | Banjo music
Old time music
String instruments
Performing arts
Music performance
Banjoists
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Banjoist Fred Brauner playing Stephen Foster songs
- Date
- 1964-07-26
- Description
- One reel to reel. Recording of Stephen Foster songs performed as instrumentals on a Epiphone banjo ( a banjo manufacturer). Location of purpose of recording is not known.
- Collection
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