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Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Tradition Bearer is exactly "Demps, Albert Troy, 1927-"
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Field recordings in the Callahan neighborhood of Orlando

Field recordings in the Callahan neighborhood of Orlando
Date
1993-04-24
Description
Three DAT tapes. Digital audio tapes (DAT) generated by fieldwork undertaken to document the folklife of the Callahan neighborhood of Orlando, Florida. Results of the fieldwork were incorporated into the "Folklife Of Central Florida" folklife theme area at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival. The tapes feature African-American hymn lining and blues, folk tales, and children's games. Images of the project can be found in folder 1.
Collection
Field recordings in the Callahan neighborhood of Orlando

Field recordings in the Callahan neighborhood of Orlando
Folklife apprentices at the 1995 Florida Folk Festival

Folklife apprentices at the 1995 Florida Folk Festival
Date
1995-05-28
Description
Twenty-six color slides. Toro Huaco were a Nicaraguan dance group, including Jose Silva and his apprentice Jose Silva. They were from Pembroke Pines. Hymn liner Demps and his apprentice Wright; both were from Orlando. And Japanese dancer Kazuko Law (of Gulf Breeze) with her apprentice Ofuyu Raiko Forrest (of Pensacola). They performed as Wako Kai. 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 at least 2006.
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Folklife apprentices at the 1995 Florida Folk Festival

Folklife apprentices at the 1995 Florida Folk Festival
Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 2)
Date
2000-05-26
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT). Bucuvalas served as the emcee. Banks and Demps demonstrated hymn lining. The Johnsons were Lisa Johnson (piano, keyboard), John Johnson (guitar, mandolin), Martin Johnson (fiddle), and Vgo. From Gainesville, they played Klezmer music. Romeo and the Boys played Trinidadian music. The included Ragbir, Mahesh Roopharine, Chris Jai Karan, Joe Ramanan, Robert Ragbit, Barry Jai Karan, and Shivanan Ramanan. They were participants in the Folklife Apprenticeship program. Apo and Lavoi played Hawaiian music, including playing the poi balls.
Collection
Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 2)
Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 3)
Date
2000-05-26
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT). Bucuvalas served as the emcee. Banks and Demps demonstrated hymn lining. Yao and Edge played the zheng, the Chinese zither. They were all participants in the Folklife Apprenticeship Program. The Roddenberry Family sang sacred harp (shape note) songs.
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Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 3)
Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 6)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 6)
Date
2000-05-26
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT). Between 6:00 and 7:00, the Florida Folklife Program, with folklorist Bucuvalas, presented the 1999 participants in the Florida Folk Arts Apprenticeship program. For more information, see the web page: http://www.flheritage.com/preservation/folklife/apprenticeship/index.cfm. Banks apprenticed under hymn liner Demps; Ragbir taught several apprentices apprenticed Indo-Trinidadian music; and Edge apprenticed under Chinese zheng player Yao. Then Williams took over as emcee. Jackson played guitar.
Collection
Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 6)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 6)
Friday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7)

Friday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7)
Date
2001-05-25
Description
One audio cassette tape. Troy Demps, Eddie Banks and Frank Spaulding discuss African-American hymn-lining, how hymns were used as prayers and in services in the past.
Collection
Friday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7)

Friday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7)
Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 11)

Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 11)
Date
2004-05-28
Description
One compact disc. Demps, Spaulidng and Robinson perform a hymn lining workshop, including a history of Amazing Grace. The last three tracks are of an unidentified string band, apparently with an accompanying clogging group.

 

 

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Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 11)

Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 11)
Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 5)

Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 5)
Date
2004-05-28
Description
One compact disc. A hymn lining workshop, led by Troy Demps (of Live Oak) with Splading and Robinson. Folklorist Stone introduced the singers. Hymn lining, which began in the 1700s, involves the leader signing a line, and the congregation repeats it.
Collection
Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 5)

Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 5)
Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 4)
Date
1996-05-24
Description
One audio cassette tape. McKenzie served as emcee. Troy Demps, of Orlando, gives background of African American hymn lining.
Collection
Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 4)
Highlights of the Callahan Folk Arts Project

Highlights of the Callahan Folk Arts Project
Date
1993-04-24
Description
One audio cassette. Culled from fieldwork undertaken to document the folklife of the Callahan neighborhood of Orlando, Florida. Images of the performers can be found in folder 1. For full recordings, see the three DAT (Digital Audio Tapes) in folder 1.
Collection
Highlights of the Callahan Folk Arts Project

Highlights of the Callahan Folk Arts Project
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
a_s1711_01_tape01Field recordings in the Callahan neighborhood of OrlandoSoundFieldwork
African Americans
Sound recordings
Community culture
Neighborhoods
Urban life
Blues (Music)
Guitar music
Hymns
Tales
Storytelling
Religious music
Religious songs
Hymn lining
Storytellers
Blues singers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
Folklife apprentices at the 1995 Florida Folk FestivalFolklife apprentices at the 1995 Florida Folk FestivalStill ImageMusical groups
Performers
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Music
Performing arts
Latinos
Arts, Nicaraguan
Nicaraguan Americans
Apprentices
Arts, Japanese
Japanese Americans
Hymn lining
African Americans
Dancers
Singers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_84_d00-029Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 2)SoundFolk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Bands (Music)
Klezmer music
Drum music
Trinidadians
Drum performance
Music, Hawaii
African Americans
Hymns
Gospel (Black)
Gospel songs
Religious songs
Hymn lining
Singers
Musicians
Drummers (Musicians)		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_84_d00-030Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance and Dance Stage) (Tape 3)SoundFolk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
A capella singers
A capella singing
Zheng
Zither music
Apprentices
Music, Hawaii
African Americans
Hymns
Gospel (Black)
Gospel songs
Religious songs
Musical tradition, sacred
Shape note singing
Arts, Chinese
Chinese Americans
Hymn lining
Singers
Musicians		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_84_d00-006Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 6)SoundFolk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Hymns
Gospel (Black)
A capella singers
A capella singing
Gospel songs
African Americans
Trinidadians
Arts, Chinese
Chinese Americans
Zheng
Singers
Musicians
Guitarist
Folklorists
Apprentices		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_87_c01-074Friday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 7)SoundSingers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
African Americans
A capella singers
A capella singing
Music performance
Gospel (Black)
Gospel songs
Hymns
Religious songs
Hymn lining		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s2034_02_cd04-091Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 11)SoundFestivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Singing
A capella singers
Workshops (Adult education)
Spiritual music
Spirituals (Songs)
Hymn lining
Hymns
A capella singing
Religious songs
Musical tradition, African diaspora
African Americans
Stringband music
Old time music
Singers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2034_02_cd04-085Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 5)SoundSingers
Folklorists
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
African Americans
Workshops (Adult education)
Hymns
Religious music
Religious songs
Spirituals (Songs)
Spiritual music
Hymn lining
A capella singers
A capella singing		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_64_c96-095Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Performance Stage) (Tape 4)SoundSingers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
African Americans
Singing
Hymns
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Religious songs
A capella singers
A capella singing
Hymn lining		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1711_01_tape04Highlights of the Callahan Folk Arts ProjectSoundStorytellers
Fieldwork
African Americans
Sound recordings
Community culture
Neighborhoods
Urban life
Blues (Music)
Guitar music
Hymns
Tales
Storytelling
Religious music
Religious songs
Blues singers		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg