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1986 Florida Folk Festival (2 of 17)

Date: 1986-05-24
Description: One video cassette (3/4" tape). 20 minutes. Bronsztein played klezmer music on the clarinet; Rodriguez played the Venezuelan harp.
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1986 Florida Folk Festival (2 of 17)

1986 Florida Folk Festival (9 of 17)

Date: 1986-05-24
Description: One video cassette. (3/4" tape) 20 minutes.
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1986 Florida Folk Festival (9 of 17)

Bar mitsvah ceremony

Date: 1985-08
Description: Five color slides. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Bar mitsvah ceremony

Bread at Paramount bakery

Date: 1985-08
Description: Two color slides. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Bread at Paramount bakery

Dade Senior Citizens Orchestra rehearsing

Date: 1985-08
Description: Two color slide. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Dade Senior Citizens Orchestra rehearsing

Ethnic Men Holiday Traditions Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)

Date: 1990-05-27
Description: One reel to reel recording. Discussion of how men from various cultures (Jewish, Haitian, Greek, and Trinidadian) celebrate holidays and special events. Gombos was from Tarpon Springs, Shapiro from Orlando, Cousuillant and Reyes from Miami. Each year at the Florida Folk Festival, the Florida Folklife Program emphasized a particular culture, tradtions, or geographic area. In 1990, they emphasized celebrations of various Florida groups. including Haitians, Trinidadians, Greeks, and Jewish peoples.
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Ethnic Men Holiday Traditions Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)

Florette Semigran making prayer shawls (tallitot)

Date: 1985-08-15
Description: Four color slides. Images of Semigran's hand woven Jewish prayer shawls. Jewish tradition is to wear fringes on the corners of four-cornered garments. Since this is no longer a commonly worn type of garment, it is customary to wear a Tallit, a prayer shawl, during morning services. A Tallit can be made from any material and can be any color. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Florette Semigran making prayer shawls (tallitot)

Folklife in South Florida

Date: 1985-08
Description: One proof sheet with twenty-four black and white images. 1: Limone Joseph playing Haitian music; 2-5: Salma Sinclair, Lebanese/Jamaican, of West Palm Beach making peas and rice; 6-7: Salma Sinclair embroidering; 8-9: Miami architecture; 10-11: Jesus Rodriguez, of Miami, playing the Venezuelan harp; 12-13: Nancy Greenburg, of Miami, creating Ketubah (Jewish Marriage contracts); 14: Roy Lee Walker of Kendall, Florida performing a shoe-shine rag; 15-21: images of a bar mitzvah ceremony.
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Folklife in South Florida

Folklorist Merri Belland interviewing Nancy Greenberg at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

Date: 1988-03
Description: Two color slides. Sponsored by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, the festival was held at the Metro-Dade Cultural Center. In 1987, the name of the festival was changed to the Traditions Festival.
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Folklorist Merri Belland interviewing Nancy Greenberg at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 11)

Date: 1986-05-23
Description: One reel to reel recordings. (Copied onto C86-75.) The folklife area in 1986 focused on Miami-Dade, which stemmed from fieldwork work on the 1986 Miami-Dade Folklife Survey, conducted by Lauri Sommers, Tina Bucuvalas, and Nancy Nusz.
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Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 11)

	Identifier	Title	Type	Subject
1986 Florida Folk Festival (2 of 17)	1986 Florida Folk Festival (2 of 17)	Moving Image	Musicians Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Arts, Venezuelan Venezuelan Americans Harp music Harps String instruments Musical instruments Arts, Jewish Klezmer music Jewish Americans Harpists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg
1986 Florida Folk Festival (9 of 17)	1986 Florida Folk Festival (9 of 17)	Moving Image	Singers Musicians Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singing Klezmer music Clarinet music Arts, Jewish Jewish Americans Music Latin America Bands (Music)	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg
Bar mitsvah ceremony	Bar mitsvah ceremony	Still Image	Fieldwork Rites and ceremonies Bar mitzvah Jewish Americans Religion Judaism Jews Rites of passage	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Bread at Paramount bakery	Bread at Paramount bakery	Still Image	Fieldwork Merchants Bread Kosher food Jews Jewish Americans Stores, retail Cookery, Jewish Food industry and trade Community enterprise	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Dade Senior Citizens Orchestra rehearsing	Dade Senior Citizens Orchestra rehearsing	Still Image	Fieldwork Music performance Jewish Americans Music rehearsals Musical instruments Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_t90-088	Ethnic Men Holiday Traditions Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Workshops (Adult education) Demonstrations Carnivals Holidays and festivals	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
Florette Semigran making prayer shawls (tallitot)	Florette Semigran making prayer shawls (tallitot)	Still Image	Fieldwork Craft Material culture Weaving Textile arts Judaism Religious art Religion Shawls Jews Women weavers Weavers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Folklife in South Florida	Folklife in South Florida	Still Image	Ketubah Marriage contracts Jews United States Harps Musical instruments Religious rites Food habits Food preparation Shoe shiners Artisans Musicians Harpists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Folklorist Merri Belland interviewing Nancy Greenberg at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)	Folklorist Merri Belland interviewing Nancy Greenberg at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)	Still Image	Fieldwork Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Interviewing Jewish Americans Artists Folklorists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_t86-032	Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 11)	Sound	Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Workshops (Adult education) Russian Americans Vaudeville Music performance Arts, Jewish Jewish Americans Jokes Piano music Comedy Performers Comedians Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg

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1986 Florida Folk Festival (2 of 17)

1986 Florida Folk Festival (2 of 17)

1986 Florida Folk Festival (9 of 17)

1986 Florida Folk Festival (9 of 17)

Bar mitsvah ceremony

Bar mitsvah ceremony

Bread at Paramount bakery

Bread at Paramount bakery

Dade Senior Citizens Orchestra rehearsing

Dade Senior Citizens Orchestra rehearsing

Ethnic Men Holiday Traditions Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)

Ethnic Men Holiday Traditions Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)

Florette Semigran making prayer shawls (tallitot)

Florette Semigran making prayer shawls (tallitot)

Folklife in South Florida

Folklife in South Florida

Folklorist Merri Belland interviewing Nancy Greenberg at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

Folklorist Merri Belland interviewing Nancy Greenberg at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 11)

Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 11)

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1986 Florida Folk Festival (2 of 17)

1986 Florida Folk Festival (2 of 17)

1986 Florida Folk Festival (9 of 17)

1986 Florida Folk Festival (9 of 17)

Bar mitsvah ceremony

Bar mitsvah ceremony

Bread at Paramount bakery

Bread at Paramount bakery

Dade Senior Citizens Orchestra rehearsing

Dade Senior Citizens Orchestra rehearsing

Ethnic Men Holiday Traditions Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)

Ethnic Men Holiday Traditions Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)

Florette Semigran making prayer shawls (tallitot)

Florette Semigran making prayer shawls (tallitot)

Folklife in South Florida

Folklife in South Florida

Folklorist Merri Belland interviewing Nancy Greenberg at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

Folklorist Merri Belland interviewing Nancy Greenberg at the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)

Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 11)

Friday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Reel 11)