| 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
| White Springs mayor Charlie Meadows at the 1972 Florida Folk Festival | White Springs mayor Charlie Meadows at the 1972 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Public officer
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Public officials
Public speaking | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Video of gospel musician Willie Eason winning the 1995 Florida Folk Heritage Award | Video of gospel musician Willie Eason winning the 1995 Florida Folk Heritage Award | Moving Image | Singers
African Americans
Gospel (Black)
Gospel musicians
Awards
Public speaking
Rites and ceremonies
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
| a_s1576_t77-230a | Thursday morning performances at the 1972 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) | Sound | Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Children
Schools
Florida history
Public speaking
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Singers
Guitarist
Choruses
Musicians
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| Thelma Boltin with Frank and Lottie Shore at the 1981 Florida Folk Festival | Thelma Boltin with Frank and Lottie Shore at the 1981 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Oral communication
Ethnicity, Seminole
Seminole Indians
Native Americans
Public speaking
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Orators | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Thelma Boltin speaking at the 1984 Florida Folk Festival | Thelma Boltin speaking at the 1984 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Public speaking
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Occasional speeches
Orators
Arts administrators | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
| Thelma Boltin at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Thelma Boltin at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Storytellers
Folk festivals
Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Public speaking
Oratory
Orators | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Thelma Boltin at the 1983 Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1983-05
- Description
- Four color slides. Boltin had been associated with the festival -- as a performer, director, and in other capacities -- since its inception in 1952. Starting the mid-1950s, she presided over the proceedings as a master of ceremonies/host.
- Collection
| a_s2043_00002 | Stephen Foster Museum Dedication | Sound | Dedications
Music performance
Performing arts
Singing
Choir singing
Choirs (music)
Museums
Special events
Public officers
Public speaking
Occasional speeches
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Public officer
Choruses
Singers
Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Museum Dedication
- Date
- 1950-10-04
- Description
- Three reel to reel recordings. 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.
- Collection
| a_s2043_00218 | Stephen Foster Day at the Stephen Foster Memorial (1966) | Sound | Concerts
Music performance
Performing arts
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Singing
Public officials
Public speaking
Special events
Musicians
Public officer
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Day at the Stephen Foster Memorial (1966)
- Date
- 1966-01-13
- Description
- Two reel to reel recordings. Stephen Foster Day was usually celebrated on 13 January, which was the day songwriter Foster died. 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.
- Collection
| a_s2043_00192 | Stephen Foster Day at the Stephen Foster Memorial (1965) | Sound | Concerts
Music performance
Performing arts
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Singing
Public officials
Public speaking
Special events
Musicians
Public officer
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Day at the Stephen Foster Memorial (1965)
- Date
- 1965-01-10
- Description
- Two reel to reel recordings. Stephen Foster Day was usually celebrated on 13 January, which was the day songwriter Foster died. 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.
- Collection
Listen: The Folk Program
