1978 Florida Folk Festival | 1978 Florida Folk Festival | Moving Image | Whip maker Singers Musicians Guitarist Net maker Boatbuilders Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singing Documentary videos Television Folk singers Seminole Indians Canoes Netmaking Interviews Blues (Music) Diddly bow String instruments Whipcracking Blues singers Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
1978 Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1978-05
- Description
- One video cassette (3/4" tape). Produced by WJCT-TV. Includes music performances and interviews with net maker Hill, dug-out canoe maker Osceola, festival organizer Boltin, and state folklorist Bulger.
- Collection
a_s1576_01_c77-025 | Ada Mickler, Jean, and Libby Waldron interview | Sound | Interviews Crafts industry Minorcans Fishing nets Netmaking Hat making Local history Palmetto Weaving Florida history | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Ada Mickler, Jean, and Libby Waldron interview
- Date
- 1977-05-24
- Description
- One audio cassette. Difficult to hear. On side one, interview of Ada Mickler of St. Augustine, Florida, in the laundromat where she works. Mickler talks about cast nets, palmetto hats, Spanish drawnwork. Followed by interview of Jean Waldron (with her sister Libby) on palmetto and palm fans, quilts and White Springs history. Tape recorder malfunctions at the end of side one. Interview continues on side two.
- Collection
a_s1622_04_tape08 | Al Ballard interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project | Sound | Beekeepers Field recordings Beekeeping Beehives Honey Apiaries Bees (insects) Citrus fruits Plants Harvesting Agriculture Interviews Oral histories | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Al Ballard interview for the Southwest Florida Folk Arts Project
- Date
- 1988-01-27
- Description
- Two audiocassettes. Ballard was born in Myakka City, where his family dates back to 1860. His father was a beekepper, and when Al retired from the U.S. Army in 1978, he began beekeeping. In the interview, he discusses his family history with beekeeping; main prime product: honey; his business Ballard's Apiary; selling honey: methods, equipment, and buyers; handling swarms and queens; tools used; bee hive boxes; transportation; use of citrus, palmetto and mangrove for pollinating; bee bahvior and life cycle; disease control; myths about bees and honey; ideal bee weather; and Africanized bees.
- Collection
a_s1576_01_c77-012b | Al Boza interview | Sound | Folk dance Interviews Carnival Oral narratives Festivals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Al Boza interview
- Date
- 1977-01-26
- Description
- One audiocassette. Boza describes his personal history and the Comparsa carnivals in Key West. He helped train the dancers and musicians who participated in the carnivals.
- Collection
a_s2043_00056 | Albert and Jessie DeVane interview | Sound | Interviews Oral histories Oral history Life histories Personal experience narratives Florida history Seminole Indians Authors Historian | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Albert and Jessie DeVane interview
- Date
- 1958-07-24
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. The DeVanes were considered experts on Florida's Seminole Indians. They arranged many of the Seminole performers at the Florida Folk Festival.
- Collection
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.
- Collection
a_s1618_04_tape17 | Alex McBride interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Field recordings Interviews Pianos Blues (music) African Americans Blues musicians Oral narratives Gospel music Jazz Nightclubs | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Alex McBride interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1989-08-16
- Description
- One audio cassette. Jacksonville native discusses his career playing blues piano. Topics include learning piano from his mother; gospel music; jazz; piano styles: gospel, blues, jazz; Jacksonville piano players; local clubs; bands he played with; playing in North Florida; and equipment used.
- Collection
a_s2029_01_tape06 | Alfredo Gallegos interview for the Mexican American Music Survey | Sound | Field recordings Interviews Occupational folkore Radio employees Radio Mexican Americans Hispanic Americans Broadcasters | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t82-052 | Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project | Sound | Basket maker Needleworkers Dollmakers Fieldwork Native Americans Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Basket making Interviewing Interviews Sound recordings Sweetgrass baskets Oral histories Life histories Family history Palmetto weaving Plants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project
- Date
- 1981-11-19
- Description
- One reel to reel. The Osceolas discuss basket making - - including when and how they learned the craft; patterns and designs; the choice of colors and materials (usually pine needles and/or palmetto fronds); teaching the young; selling baskets; and the basketry process. The recordings were created for the Florida Folklife Program's Seminole Slide and Tape Project, a program sponsored by the American Express Company in 1982-1983 to create two educational slide/tape programs for use by schools, community groups, and other educational outlets. One program dealt with sweetgrass basket making; the other on traditional Seminole patchwork. Recordings of the finished program tapes can be found in S 1576, Box 10. Teacher guides, program scripts, and documentation of the project can be found in S 1595, Box 1.
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a_s1576_30_c93-019 | Allen Jones interview at the 1993 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Area | sound | Railroads Employees Dancers Folk festivals Florida Folk Festival Railroads Interviews Railway workers Oral narratives African Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |