Florida Crossroads: Florida's Folk Festival | Florida Crossroads: Florida's Folk Festival | Moving Image | Singers Musicians Guitarist Artisans Leather workers Metal-workers Dancers Whip maker Secretary of State Public officer Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Video recording Television Singing Park Ranger Saddles Leather craft Craft Whipcracking Whips Fiddle music Fiddlers Old time music Bandura Hammer dulcimer Dulcimer music A capella singers A capella singing Gospel (Black) Gospel music Signs and signboards Arts, Cuban Cuban Americans Workshops (Adult education) Yodeling Storytelling Dance Cooking and dining Food preparation Basket making Basket work Blacksmithing Guitar music Interviews Interviewing on television Secretaries of State (State governments) Bands (Music) Folklorists Volunteers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Florida Crossroads: Florida's Folk Festival
- Date
- 1995-07-13
- Description
- One video recording. (3/4 tape; 28 minutes)An episode of the Florida Public Television series, "Florida Crossroads." Filmed by Florida Public television (through a Florida Dept. of Education grant), the episode features performances, demonstrations, interviews, and presentations at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (26-28 May). Included are interviews with folklorists, park employees, musicians, artisans, and park attendees, as well examples of the folklife on display at the Festival.
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Just Mario | Just Mario | Moving Image | Documentary videos Arts, Cuban Cuban Americans Art Artists studios Decorative arts Artists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Just Mario
- Date
- 1991
- Description
- One video recording (VHS; 30 minutes)
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Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 2 of 15) | Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 2 of 15) | Moving Image | Dancers Artists Painters Bands (Music) Guitarist Harmonica players Musicians Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Blues (Music) Harmonica music Singing Guitar music Performing arts Bagpipe music Bagpipes Arts, Scottish Kilts Comparsa tradition Arts, Cuban Dance Body movement Bagpipers Blues singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 2 of 15)
- Date
- 1991-05-25
- Description
- One video recording (3/4" tape; 22 minutes) Unedited footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festival. Continues video FV-59 of the peformance on Stage III of Washington DC-based blues duo Wiggins and Cephas. Then extensive footage of the Cayo Huesa Comparsas Band and Dancers performing. Followed by artist Mario Sanchez discussing his paintings (hard to hear.) Then ends with the City of Dunedin Bagpipers. For the full audio recording of Cephas and Wiggins, see S 1576, D91-8.
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Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 3 of 15) | Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 3 of 15) | Moving Image | Bands (Music) Needleworkers Folk festivals Festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts String bands Stringband music String instruments Old time music Autoharp Autoharp music Zither Arts, Cuban Comparsa tradition Tents Signs and signboards Retail trade Craft Architecture Carillons Workshops (Adult education) Guitar music Guitarists Guitar Needlework Arts, Hungarian Sewing Dancers Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Raw footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festivals (Video 3 of 15)
- Date
- 1991-05-25
- Description
- One video recording (3/4" tape; 22 minutes) Unedited footage of the 1991 Florida Folk Festival. Starts with the 97th Regimental String Band, then footage of the folklife tent: an autoharpist; Hunagrian needleworker Horvath, comparsa dancers Irene & Emelia Fernandez; the bell carillon; various craft tents; a guitar workshop; and the Friends of Florida Folklife tent.
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Video of Guajiro Decima singer Meliton Perdomo | Video of Guajiro Decima singer Meliton Perdomo | Moving Image | Fieldwork Latinos Arts, Cuban Cuban Americans Singing Decimas, Cuban American (Spanish) Music performance Performing arts Oral performance Apprentices Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Video of Guajiro Decima singer Meliton Perdomo
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- Description
- One video recording. 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, and then Robert Stone. The program was continued each year through 2004.
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a_s1576_t80-046 | Aleida Martinez-Garrido interview for the Cuban-Americans Slide and Tape Project | Sound | Field recordings Oral histories Interviews Personal experience narratives Santeria Jokes Cuban Americans Latinos Cuba Emigration and immigration Religion Politics and culture Political movements Communism Castro, Fidel, 1926- | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Aleida Martinez-Garrido interview for the Cuban-Americans Slide and Tape Project
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One reel to reel. Interveiw with a Cuban immigrant about the Cuban American community in Miami. Topics include: Reasons for immigration; life in Cuba; Communism; Fidel Castro (and jokes/anti-Castro movements), bolita; Santeria; quince; acculturation of Cuban Americans; the Mariel boat lift on 1980. Interview conducted for a slide/tape program on Cuban-Americans, a copy of which can be found on T80-95.
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a_s1618_04_tape02 | Ana Blanco interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Needlework Field recordings Interviews Oral narratives Lace making Cuban Americans Bobbin lace Emigration Latinos Textile art | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Ana Blanco interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1988-07-21
- Description
- One audio cassette. Blanco disscuses living in Cuba until 1962; learning lace making; teaching others and doing festivals; process and items made in Cuba; bobbin lace; lace making techniques; patterns; bobbing; stitches; English and Spanish lace; machine-made lace; uses of her lace; and lace making in Jacksonville.
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a_s1685_07_tape11 | Billy Sanchez interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Supervisors Field recordings Interviews Oral narratives Immigration Cuban Americans Sugar Sugarcane Agricultural implements Agriculture Occupational folklore Jamaican Americans Labor unions Employee morale Agricultural workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Billy Sanchez interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1987-01-17
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. (Note on depositor agreement that interview cannot be reproduced in newspapers.) Sanchez oversees cane burning and cutting, as well as recruiting workers for a local sugar grower. His father was rancher in Cuba, who left as political exiles in the 1960s. In the interview, he discusses recruiting cane cutters in Jamaica; training workers; pay schemes; labor camps (set-up, conditions); field burning; types of workers: head pushers, ticket writers, camp supt., demonstrators; unions in Jamaica; and working conditions.
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a_s1576_03_c80-023 | Copy of vinyl record <em>Congas y comparsas del carnaval habanero</em> | Sound | Singers Musicians Latinos Cubans Sound recordings Cuban Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t90-114a | Cuban drummer Florencio Baro and apprentice performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) | Sound | Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Apprentices Drum music Drum performance Drums Cuban Americans Arts, Cuban Drummers (Musicians) Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Cuban drummer Florencio Baro and apprentice performing at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)
- Date
- 1990-05-25
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Fitchen served as emcee. Parada and Hernandez apprenticed under drummer Baro in 1990 through the FFP Apprenticeship program. 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 2003.
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