| 1986 Florida Folk Festival (6 of 17) | 1986 Florida Folk Festival (6 of 17) | Moving Image | Musicians
Singers
Guitarist
Composer
Bands (Music)
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Folklorists
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1986 Florida Folk Festival (6 of 17)
- Date
- 1986-05-24
- Description
- One video cassette. (3/4" tape) 20 minutes. Includes a presentation of the first Florida Folk Heritage Awards (Edward Flemming, Mary McClain, and Nancy Morgan.)
- Collection
| Will McLean Memorial Service | Will McLean Memorial Service | Moving Image | Guitarist
Composer
Memorials
Video recording
Memorialization
Tributes
Death rites
Folk singers
Public speaking
Singing
Sing alongs
Personal experience narratives
Autoharp music
Guitar music
Composers
Songs
Performances
Performing arts
Humor
Oral narratives
Seminole Indians
Florida history
Musicians
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
Will McLean Memorial Service
- Date
- 1990-01-24
- Description
- One video recording (35 minutes, VHS). Memorial Service for singer-songwriter Will McLean, held at the Thomas Center in Gainesville. Includes eulogies and memories by Florida Folk Festival director Thelma, Boltin,singer-songwriter Don Grooms, an emotional Seminole chairman and singer James (Jim) Billie, singer-protégé Gamble Rogers, Barbara Sheen Todd, singer-environmental activist Dale Crider, and Cherill Heaton. Plus performances McLean's songs by Jeanie Fitchen (on autoharp), Dougs Gauss, Wayne Martin, Frank Thomas, Don Grooms, Dennis Devine, Mary Ann Dinella, Sandra Jamieson, Ernie Williams, and Barbara Sheen Todd (who sings his first song). These are interspersed with scenes from a 1982 PBS special on McLean, and concludes with audio from McLean's last performance (St. Augustine, October 29, 1989). Many other folk artists are visible in the audience, including Bobby Hicks. Produced by Margaret Longhill and Philip Schwartz for the McLean Foundation. Singer-songwriter Will McLean was often called the 'Father of Florida Folk.' The Black Hat Troubadour, a nickname given for the hat he usually wore, authored hundreds of songs, and was a national figure on the folk music scene. A fifth generation Floridian, he died in 1990 from cancer.
- Collection
| a_s1603_03_06_01 | A 45 record (single) by Frank Thomas and Friends | Sound | Performances
Sound recordings
Folk singers
Songs
Music performance
Composers
Singing
Singers
Guitarist
Composer | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t87-097b | Bobby Hicks performing at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Singing
Folk singers
Guitar music
Singers
Musicians
Guitarist
Composer | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s2043_00072 | Carmen Dragon at Stephen Foster Memorial | Sound | Concerts
Music performance
Performing arts
Composers
Symphonies
Composer
Conductors | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Carmen Dragon at Stephen Foster Memorial
- Date
- 1960-07-24
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Dragon was a composer and conductor from Antioch, California. He conducted the Hollywood Bowl Symphony, and composed several film scores, including "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Cover Girl", for which he won an Academy Award in 1944. His son, Daryl Dragon, was the husband half of Captain & Tennile. His daughter, also Carmen, was a world-renowned harpist.
- Collection
| a_s1576_04_c80-022 | Copy of the radio program Florida Sand: The Life and Works of Will McLean | Sound | Music performance
Radio programs
Composers
Guitar music
Singing
Folk singers
Interviews
Life histories
Oral performance
Poetry
Singers
Guitarist
Composer
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Copy of the radio program Florida Sand: The Life and Works of Will McLean
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One audio cassette. Copy of the Florida Sand special program for NPR's Folk Festival USA series. The program was written by singer Gamble Rogers and edited and produced by Deborah Lamberton and Flawn Williams. The program was mixed at WHA studios in Madison, Wisconsin. The show celebrated the songs and life of Florida singer/songwriter Will McLean. The show includes memories and stories by Rogers, Boltin, and McLean, plus McLean singing several of his songs.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t89-106b | Del Suggs performing at the 1989 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) | Sound | Singers
Guitarist
Composer
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Guitar music
Folk singers
Singing
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_t91-042 | Del Suggs performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) | Sound | Guitarist
Singers
Composer
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Folk singers
Composers
Singing
Songs
Guitarists
String instruments
Guitar music
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_15_c84-117 | Favorite Cowboy Recitation -- copyrighted recording of the Cowboy Potery Gathering (Utah Folklife Center) | Sound | Composer
Festivals
Folk festivals
Cowboy poetry
Poetic language
Oral poetry
Cowboys
Poets | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Favorite Cowboy Recitation -- copyrighted recording of the Cowboy Potery Gathering (Utah Folklife Center)
- Date
- 1984
- Description
- One audio cassette. See cassette jacket for further descriptions of poetry and authors. This is a copyrighted recording, and no copies can be made from it. Side A "The Cowboy's Prayer" - Owen Johnson, Moccasin, AZ (recited by Gary Stanton); "Strawberry Roan" - Ray Lashley, Syracuse UT (recited by Gary Stanton, originally written by Curley Fletcher); "Zebra Dunn" - Larry Schutte, Maggie Creek Ranch, NV (recited by Gary Stanton); "Shag Brauntay" - Bud Bartram, Stoneham, CO (recited by David Brose); "Home Sweet Home" - Sam Scheyler, Jerome, ID (recited by Gary Stanton); "Murph and McClop" - Harry Taylor, Jackson, WY (recited by Warren Miller); "The Courtship of Young Waddie" - Randy Stowell, Currie, NV (recited by Gary Stanton); "The Flying Outlaw" - Waddie Mitchell, Lee Jiggs, NV (recited by Hal Cannon); "Old Timers" - Ken Trowbridge, Darby, MT (recited by Mike Korn); "Cowboy's Dream" - Dave Ericsson, Wikiup, AZ (recited by Warren Miller); "The Bronco's Twister's Prayer" - Yula S. Hunting, Beryl, UT (recited by Carol Edison). Side B "Sellin Prewitts' Cow" - Baxter Black, Brighton, CO (recited by David Brose); "The Rodeo Trail" - Buck Crofts, Kanab, UT (recited by Carol Edison); "The Kid Solos" - Bob Schilds, Blackfoot, ID (recited by Gary Stanton); "Cows and Logs" - Harold Otto, Pateros, WA (recited by Jens Lund); "Early Morning Roundup" - Owen Barton, Rogerson, NV (recited by Gary Stanton); "The Old Cowman" - Dick Gibford, Meridian, ID (recited by Steve Siporin); "So Long" - Ross Knox, Seligman, AZ (recited by Warren Miller); "Open Range" - Melvin Whipple, Hereford, TX (recited by Jim McNutt); "The Lowly Brawl" - Vern Mortensen, Parowan, UT (recited by Gary Stanton); "Then and Now" - Jack Walther, Lamoille, NV (recited by Gary Stanton); "Cowboys of Yesteryear" - Cecil Moore, Grants, NM (recited by Hal Cannon); "How Many Cows" - Nyle Henderson, Hotchkiss, CO (recited by David Brose); "No Imposter" - Duane Reece, Winkleman, AZ (recited by Warren Miller); "Reincarnation" - Wally McRae, Forsyth, MT (recited by Mike Korn). The Western Folklife Center emerged out of the Utah Folklife Center.
- Collection
| a_s1576_03_c79-085 | Florida Sands: Stories and songs by Will McLean | Sound | Music performance
Folk singers
Singing
Guitar music
Tales
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Composers
Florida history
Local history
Singers
Guitarist
Composer
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Florida Sands: Stories and songs by Will McLean
- Date
- 1970
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. McLean performs several of his songs, and explains the stories behind them. Many of his compositions dealt with Florida history and culture.
- Collection
Listen: The FolkFolk Program