| Performers at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival | Performers at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Bands (Music)
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Music performance
Drums
Percussion instruments
String bands
Performing arts
Steel guitars
Dancers
Drummers (Musicians)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Performers at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1994-05-28
- Description
- One proof sheet with 30 black and white images (plus negatives). Performers on the main stage, including gospel steel guitarist Ghent; traditional Scottish dancers; a string band, Merriweather; and a Florida songwriter, Dunn;
- Collection
| The Junkanoos performing at the 1984 Florida Folk Festival | The Junkanoos performing at the 1984 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Bands (Music)
Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Musical instruments
Percussion instruments
African Americans
Music performance
Drummers (Musicians) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Jay Starka playing steel drums at the 1970 Florida Folk Festival | Jay Starka playing steel drums at the 1970 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Drummers (Musicians)
Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Drums
Percussion instruments
Music performance
Musical instruments
Performing arts
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| a_s1576_68_c97-076 | Saturday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 6) | Sound | Drummers (Musicians)
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Oral performance
Life histories
Interviewing
Instrument manufacture
Musical instruments
Percussion instruments
African Americans
Drum music
Drums
Musical instrument maker | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Saturday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 6)
- Date
- 1997-05-24
- Description
- One audio cassette recordings. Eddie Osborne (Miami, FL), African-American drummaker is interviewed by Laurie Sommers. He discusses his background and the history of African-American instruments from the drums and banjo to rattles. He displays his instruments and talks about the materials used to make them. He also talks about his apprentice.
- Collection
| Cimbalum player | Cimbalum player | Still Image | Fieldwork
Percussion instruments
Musical instruments
Music performance
Hungarians Americans
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cimbalum player
- Date
- 1985-08
- Description
- Eleven color slides. Images created as fieldwork for the apprenticeship program. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
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| a_s1576_t83-150 | Interview with jazz and blues drummer Clyde Andrews | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Drums
Blues (Music)
Jazz music
Music business
Nightclubs
Music performance
Music industry
Drum music
Percussion instruments
Horn music
Saxophones
Rock music
Drummers (Musicians)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with jazz and blues drummer Clyde Andrews
- Date
- 1981-12-02
- Description
- One reel to reel. Andrews, son of musician Harold Andrews and a Pensacola native, discusses his interest in music as a child; the similarities between various styles of music; playing progressive jazz, rock and roll, swing and other music styles; learning to read music; his favorite jazz styles and his opinions on other types of music; the public's interest in jazz music; improvisation; drumming; Charles Marby, a drummer; and playing brass instruments. The cassette is damaged and does not play well. Copied onto audiocassette C83-50.
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| Marimba Mayalandia performing at the Rivera Residence | Marimba Mayalandia performing at the Rivera Residence | Still Image | Fieldwork
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Latinos
Performing arts
Music performance
Marimba
Musical instruments
Percussion instruments
Singers
Bands (Music)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Marimba Mayalandia performing at the Rivera Residence
- Date
- 1996-05-18
- Description
- One proof sheet with 36 black and white images (plus negatives). The marimba is similar to the piano, except it is played with mallets. Originally from Africa, the instrument is popular in Latin America. The Mexican American Music Survey was created to document the musical traditions of Florida's various Mexican-American communities: Apopka, South Dade County, Immokalee, the St. Johns River Basin, and Central Florida. Funded by a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Community Folklife Program, the survey was conducted between 1994 and 1996 by folklorist Robert Stone. Among the musical traditions were serenatas, conjunto, quinceanara ritual music, ranchera Michoacana, mariachi, norteno, Tejano, and pop music. At the end of the project, a sampler music tape was created by the Florida Folklife Program for distribution to various libraries.
- Collection
| Marimba Mayalandia performing at the Rivera Residence | Marimba Mayalandia performing at the Rivera Residence | Still Image | Fieldwork
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Latinos
Performing arts
Music performance
Marimba
Musical instruments
Percussion instruments
Singers
Bands (Music)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Marimba Mayalandia performing at the Rivera Residence
- Date
- 1996-05-18
- Description
- 27 color slides. The marimba is similar to the piano, except it is played with mallets. Originally from Africa, the instrument is popular in Latin America. The Mexican American Music Survey was created to document the musical traditions of Florida's various Mexican-American communities: Apopka, South Dade County, Immokalee, the St. Johns River Basin, and Central Florida. Funded by a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Community Folklife Program, the survey was conducted between 1994 and 1996 by folklorist Robert Stone. Among the musical traditions were serenatas, conjunto, quinceanara ritual music, ranchera Michoacana, mariachi, norteno, Tejano, and pop music. At the end of the project, a sampler music tape was created by the Florida Folklife Program for distribution to various libraries.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t86-056 | Performance by Rasta Samba Gynin | Sound | Fieldwork
Haitian Americans
Sound recordings
African Americans
Music
Drums
Singing
Music performance
Performing arts
Percussion instruments
Rastafarianism
Religion
Religious music
Beliefs and cultures
Rastafari movement
Musical groups | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Performance by Rasta Samba Gynin
- Date
- 1985-08-08
- Description
- One reel to reel tape. (Copied onto C86-99) Rasta Samba Gynin is a Rasta group of four Haitians formed in 1984 to play Rasta cultural songs. Most of the songs (written by group member Yamba Ye) are spiritual, and follow traditional tunes. Their music stresses their African roots. For more information, see T86-57 (C86-100) for interviews with group members. Members are: Yamba Ye (writer, drums and vocal); Pierre Joseph Jabouin (drum and vocal); Henry Frederic Massena (drum and vocal); and Rodrick Maurice St. Cyr (voice and percussion). The Rasta movement (whose members are called Rastafarians) began with Marcus Garvey's back-to-Africa movement. When the Ethiopian prince Ras Tafari Makkonen was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I in the 1930s, many in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean looked to him as a messiah, and Rasta was born. It combines elements of African and New World beliefs. Sommers's field notes on the group may be found in S 1628, Box 1, folder 11. Recorded at the Little River Community Center. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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| Washboard Bill Cooke | Washboard Bill Cooke | Still Image | Fieldwork
African Americans
Musical instruments
Percussion instruments
Blues singers
Storytellers
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Washboard Bill Cooke
- Date
- 1987-08-10
- Description
- Nine color slides. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.
- Collection
Listen: The Blues Program
