A Will McLean Tribute at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival | A Will McLean Tribute at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Guitarist Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Folk singers Guitarists Music performance Tributes Performing arts Musicians Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
A Will McLean Tribute at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival
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- 1991-05-26
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- Thirty-eight color slides. A musical tribute to folk singer Will McLean. 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 over 3500 songs, and was a national figure on the folk music scene. A fifth generation Floridian, he died in 1990 from cancer. Audio recordings of the tribute can be found in S 1576, reels T91-52 and T91-53. A video of the tribute can be found in S 1615, video FV-58.
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a_s1576_t92-023 | Al Poindexter performing at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) | Sound | Guitarist Musicians Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Performances Music performance Guitar music Guitarists Banjo music Old time music String instruments Singing Banjoists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t92-060 | Al Poindexter performing at the 1992 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) | Sound | Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Performances Folk singers Singing Banjo music String instruments Music performance Guitar music Old time music Guitarists Guitarist Banjoists Musicians Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t91-047 | Anne Hutcheson performing at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) | Sound | Guitarist Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singing Guitarists String instruments Guitar music Musicians Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Apprenticeships at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival | Apprenticeships at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Apprentices Performers Guitarists Guitar String instruments Folk dance Fiddlers Fiddles Comparsa tradition Folklore revival festivals Arts, Cuban Folk festivals Storytellers Guitarist Harpists Dancers Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Apprenticeships at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival
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- 1991-05
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- One proof sheet with thirty-six black and white images. 1-5: Jamican tales: Lucille Fuller, Veta Plummer, Sophia Campbell; 6: Blues guitar: Tampa Blue, Joe Reiva, Michael Dodge; 7: Venezuelan harp: Jesus Rodriguez; 8-16: East Indian dance: Perema and Prya Menon; 17-18: Fiddling: Gerry Cox, Amy Cox, Bob Murphy; 19-36: Cuban dancing: Cayo Hueso Comparsa.
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Arnold Graham-Smith performing English Pub Songs | Arnold Graham-Smith performing English Pub Songs | Still Image | English songs Songs, English Guitarists Guitar String instruments Singing Performers Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Arnold Graham-Smith performing English pub songs | Arnold Graham-Smith performing English pub songs | Still Image | Songs Singing Songs, English English songs Performing arts Musicians Guitarists Guitar String instruments Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
a_s1576_t91-031b | Arnold Graham-Smith performing old English and Welsh songs at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage) | Sound | Guitarist Singers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Guitar music Guitarists Musical traditions, Anglo-Americans Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
a_s2044_02_tape12 | Aubrey Ghent and Henry Nelson interview for the Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project | Sound | Guitarist Singers Fieldwork Steel guitars Guitar music Performing arts Guitarists Music performance African Americans Religious songs Religious music Gospel songs Gospel musicians Gospel (Black) Personal experience narratives Interviews Oral histories Life histories Oral history Protestants Christianity Churches Religion Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Aubrey Ghent and Henry Nelson interview for the Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project
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- 1993-11-26
- Description
- Four audio cassette recordings. Recorded at Nelson's sister's house (Mary Linzy) in Ocala. Ghent and Nelson discuss the origins of the Sacred Steel tradition, early influences (e.g. Troman and Willie Eason), the House of God tradition, and playing styles. The Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project originated in 1992 when Florida Folklife Program folklorist Robert Stone discovered that several predominantly African American House of God churches (a sub-sect of the Pentecostal church) in the St. Petersburg area were using steel guitars in their religious services. The practice began by Willie and Troman Eason in the 1930s, and expanded upon by players such as Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison. Realizing that this was a unique musical tradition, labeled Sacred Steel, the Florida Folklife Program to applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct fieldwork and create a music album for public dispersal. The aim of the project was to increase public awareness of the gospel steel guitar tradition, as well as document it for future generations. Matched with state funds, the grant period originally ran from October 1993 through October 1994, but was extended for another year. In that time Stone, along with sound engineers William Dudley and Mike Stapleton, interviewed and recorded several steel guitarists in the St. Petersburg area. An album entitled Sacred Steel was released in 1995. It was then re-released through an agreement with Arhoolie Records in 1997.
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a_s2044_02_tape03 | Aubrey Ghent and his father Henry Nelson performing sacred steel music at various events | Sound | Guitarist Singers Fieldwork Steel guitars Guitar music Performing arts Guitarists Music performance African Americans Religious songs Religious music Gospel songs Gospel musicians Gospel (Black) Festivals Folk festivals Special events Church attendance Church services Protestants Christianity Churches Religion Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Aubrey Ghent and his father Henry Nelson performing sacred steel music at various events
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- 1993-11-26
- Description
- One audio cassette recording. (Duplicate can be found on tape 5.) The first half of the tape was recorded at a House of God "Family and Friends Day Celebration" in Daytona Beach on 5 September 1993. The second half was recorded at the Ocala House of God Church #2 on 26 November 1993, and the then at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival on May 24 1994 (for entire festival performance, see D94-20 in S 1576.) On the second half, the vocals are weak. The Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project originated in 1992 when Florida Folklife Program folklorist Robert Stone discovered that several predominantly African American House of God churches (a sub-sect of the Pentecostal church) in the St. Petersburg area were using steel guitars in their religious services. The practice began by Willie and Troman Eason in the 1930s, and expanded upon by players such as Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison. Realizing that this was a unique musical tradition, labeled Sacred Steel, the Florida Folklife Program to applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct fieldwork and create a music album for public dispersal. The aim of the project was to increase public awareness of the gospel steel guitar tradition, as well as document it for future generations. Matched with state funds, the grant period originally ran from October 1993 through October 1994, but was extended for another year. In that time Stone, along with sound engineers William Dudley and Mike Stapleton, interviewed and recorded several steel guitarists in the St. Petersburg area. An album entitled Sacred Steel was released in 1995. It was then re-released through an agreement with Arhoolie Records in 1997.
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