a_s1576_02_c78-067 | <em>Stove-side Memories</em> album by Joan Elizabeth Morgan | Sound | Sound recordings Audiotape recordings Music performance Performing arts Autoharp music Psaltery Music business | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Stove-side Memories album by Joan Elizabeth Morgan
- Date
- 1975
- Description
- One audio cassette. A copy of a copyrighted album, Stove-side Memories, recorded by Friendly Finley Music in Fort Walton Beach in 1975. Features Morgan playing the autoharp, the psaltery, and the Russian Balalika. No copies can be made -- only for listening purposes.
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a_s2043_00020 | 100th Anniversary Celebration of creation of state song Old Folks at Home | Sound | Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 Music performance Performing arts Anniversaries Singing Choir singing Choirs (music) State songs Special events Public officer Choruses Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
100th Anniversary Celebration of creation of state song Old Folks at Home
- Date
- 1951-09-30
- Description
- Six reel to reel recordings. Songwriter Stephen Foster wrote Old Folks at Home in 1851. In 1935, the Florida Legislature designated "Old Folks at Home" (often referred to as "Way Down Upon the Suwannee River") as Florida's state song. Over the next two decades, several Floridians began to push for a memorial to the song's composer, Stephen Collins Foster, considered by many to be the nation's first commercial songwriter. Finally, after the efforts of the Florida Federation of Music Clubs, the state opened the Stephen Foster Memorial, a 250-acre state-owned park, in White Springs, Florida in 1950, and would eventually comprise a bell tower, a Stephen Foster Museum, landscaped park grounds, and an annual Florida Folk Festival, along with other public programs. That same year, the state created the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission to administer the development and maintenance of the park.
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a_s1576_01_c77-015 | 10th Annual Apopka Folk Festival recording | Sound | Singing Music performance Storytelling Musicians Festivals Folk festivals Dance music Yodeling Performing arts Orators Dancers Singers Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t77-277 | 1977 Portable Folk Festival | Sound | Folklore revival festivals Folk festivals Special events Concerts Music performance Blues (Music) Blues singers Guitar music Dulcimer music Hammer dulcimer Gospel music Gospel songs Singers Musicians Guitarist Bands (Music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
1977 Portable Folk Festival
- Date
- 1977-04-16
- Description
- Three reel to reels. Johnny Shines was a blues singer-guitarist who once traveled with famed blues singer Robert Johnson. He was re-discovered in the 1960s during the folk revival boom, and played festivals throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His sound was very similar to Robert Johnson's, and here he played several Johnson songs. Bluegrass and Kentucky mountain music singer Phyllis Boyens (who later appeared in the film Cola Miner's Daughter as Loretta Lynn's mother) and Nimrod Workman (who also had a bit part in the same film) released the album Passing Through the Garden in 1976, and they were promoting that album at this performance. Workman was a former coal miner and union organizer in Kentucky. Bessie Jones, born in inland Georgia, promoted Georgia Sea Island songs, and later in the 1960s formed the Georgia Sea Island Singers. She died in Brunswick Georgia in 1984. The Red Clay Ramblers was a part of the "New-Grass" movement of the 1970s, forming in 1972. The Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based group featured Tommy Thompson (1937-2003) (banjo), Jim Watson (guitar/mandolin), Jack Herrick (guitar), Mike Craver (piano), and Bill Hicks (fiddle). Conway was a scholar at Appalachian State University and filmmaker of Appalachian culture, and an associate of the Red Clay Ramblers. She introduced Shines and the Red Clay Ramblers at the concert.
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a_s1576_10_c83-100 | 1981 Florida State Fiddlers Competition | Sound | Musicians Competitions Fiddle music Fiddling Special events Violin music String instruments Old time music Bluegrass music Contests Music performance Performing arts Fiddlers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1714_03_tape02 | 45th Anniversary of the Senior Choir program | Sound | Fieldwork African Americans Choir singing Singing Choirs (music) Religious music Religion Protestants Christianity Gospel (Black) Gospel music Gospel songs Spiritual music Spirituals (Songs) Music performance Performing arts Churches Church membership Special events Church attendance Sound recording Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
45th Anniversary of the Senior Choir program
- Date
- 1985-01-12
- Description
- Four audio cassettes. Recording of the 45th anniversary program for the senior choir of the Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church. The program consisted of traditional gospel and spiritual songs. A malfunctioning microphone caused some distortion and feedback on the recording. In Winter 1985, the Bureau contracted with two folklorists to conduct a folk arts survey of the St. Johns River basin in northeastern Florida. The St. Johns River is the largest and most used river in Florida, supporting much river commerce as well as a modest amount of commercial fishing. Folklorists Mary Anne McDonald and Kathleen Figgen conducted the survey from January through March 1985 under the direction of Folklife Coordinator Blanton Owen and Bureau Chief Ormond Loomis. Documentation compiled in the survey was used to prepare and present the 'St. Johns River Basin Folklife Area' at the 1985 Florida Folk Festival.
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a_s2043_00006 | 99th Celebration of Creation of state song Old Folks at Home | Sound | Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 Music performance Performing arts Anniversaries Singing Choir singing Choirs (music) State songs Special events Choruses Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
99th Celebration of Creation of state song Old Folks at Home
- Date
- 1950
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. Songwriter Stephen Foster wrote Old Folks at Home in 1851. In 1935, the Florida Legislature designated "Old Folks at Home" (often referred to as "Way Down Upon the Suwannee River") as Florida's state song. Over the next two decades, several Floridians began to push for a memorial to the song's composer, Stephen Collins Foster, considered by many to be the nation's first commercial songwriter. Finally, after the efforts of the Florida Federation of Music Clubs, the state opened the Stephen Foster Memorial, a 250-acre state-owned park, in White Springs, Florida in 1950, and would eventually comprise a bell tower, a Stephen Foster Museum, landscaped park grounds, and an annual Florida Folk Festival, along with other public programs. That same year, the state created the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission to administer the development and maintenance of the park.
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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_t87-130 | African American Gospel Workshop at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) | Sound | Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Music performance African Americans Musical tradition, African diaspora Workshops (Adult education) Gospel (Black) Gospel music A capella singers A capella singing Choir singing Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t88-135 | African American Gospel Workshop performing at the 1988 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) | Sound | Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Music performance A capella singing Gospel (Black) Gospel music African Americans Choir singing Choirs (music) Piano music Religious music Religious songs Workshops (Adult education) Pianists Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |