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Aaron O'Rourke Trio performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Amphitheater

Date: 2007-11-11
Description: Donna Green-Townsend serves as emcee. O'Rourke (mountain dulcimer), Abraham (mandolin), and Snelling (bass) were from Tallahassee, Fla.
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Aaron O'Rourke Trio performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Amphitheater

Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Date: 2007-11-09
Description: Tina Bucuvalas serves as emcee. Forney tells stories about the life, travel, and times of her ancestors, including the origin of the moniker "Cracker" and its various definitions.
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Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Ballet Folklórico de Bomba y Plena Lanzó dance workshop at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Date: 2004-05-30
Description: Ballet Folklórico de Bomba y Plena Lanzó, led by Miguel and Idalia Lanzo, conduct a workshop on Puerto Rican bomba and plena dance and music.
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Ballet Folklórico de Bomba y Plena Lanzó dance workshop at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex

Date: 1989-11
Description: Ninety-seven color slides. Images of cane grinding at the Dudley Farms complex. Today a state park, Dudley Farms had been used as the Dudley family farm since the 1840s. Donated to the state in 1984 by Myrtle Dudley, the Bureau of Florida Folklife was contracted by the Florida Park Service to survey the sugarcane grinding complex at the farms. The final result, as a report of the findings,is available in S 1597.
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Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Date: 2007-11-10
Description: Annette Fromm serves as emcee. Sharp and Rigdon read cowboy poetry.
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Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)

Date: 2007-11-11
Description: Robert "Bob" Stone serves as emcee. Sharp and Rigdon read cowboy poetry and tell stories.
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Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Second reading)

Date: 2007-11-11
Description: Robert "Bob" Stone serves as emcee. Sharp and Rigdon read cowboy poetry.
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Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Second reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Third reading)

Date: 2007-11-11
Description: Robert "Bob" Stone serves as emcee. Sharp and Rigdon read cowboy poetry.
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Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Third reading)

Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Date: 2007-11-10
Description: Tina Bucuvalas serves as emcee. Sharp reads cowboy poetry.
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Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp reading poetry & Mestengo performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Date: 2007-11-11
Description: Annette Fromm serves as emcee. Sharp reads a cowboy poem. Granado (accordion, vocals), J. Martinez (drums, vocals), Arrazola (bajo sexto, vocals), and Martinez (bass, vocals) perform as Mestengo. Granado explains their fusion of música norteña and Tejano/Tex-Mex; the genre's origins in northern Mexico; the influence of Polish and German musical styles and instrumentation, primarily the polka and the accordion; and technical aspects of the accordion and bajo sexto. The band plays a cumbia, ranchera, bolero, and huapango.
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Carl Sharp reading poetry & Mestengo performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

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Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex	Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex	Still Image	Farmers Farm buildings Farm life Farm workers Sugarcane Sugarcane grinding Agriculture Material culture Family farming Cash crops Sugar crops Architecture Food industry and trade Structures Cane syrup Food preparation	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
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a_s2034_07_cd07-053	Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Third reading)	sound	Folk festivals Florida Folk Festival Cowboys -- Poetry Cowboys -- Florida Florida Crackers Poetry reading	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
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Aaron O'Rourke Trio performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Amphitheater

Aaron O'Rourke Trio performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Amphitheater

Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Ballet Folklórico de Bomba y Plena Lanzó dance workshop at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Ballet Folklórico de Bomba y Plena Lanzó dance workshop at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex

Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Second reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Second reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Third reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Third reading)

Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp reading poetry & Mestengo performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp reading poetry & Mestengo performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

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Aaron O'Rourke Trio performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Amphitheater

Aaron O'Rourke Trio performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Amphitheater

Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Ava Forney demonstration at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Ballet Folklórico de Bomba y Plena Lanzó dance workshop at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Ballet Folklórico de Bomba y Plena Lanzó dance workshop at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex

Cane grinding at Dudley Farm complex

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (First reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Second reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Second reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Third reading)

Carl Sharp & Doyle Rigdon reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage (Third reading)

Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp reading cowboy poetry at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp reading poetry & Mestengo performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage

Carl Sharp reading poetry & Mestengo performance at the 2007 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage