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
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- 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_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
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- 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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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
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- 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.
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1980 Florida Folk Festival | 1980 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Folklife Special events | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
1980 Florida Folk Festival
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- Description
- Seven proof sheets, with 200 black and white images. Includes negatives. Unindexed images of the Florida Folk Festival, May 1980. Several images are very dark.
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1981 Florida Folk Festival | 1981 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Special events Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Musicians Children African Americans Diddly bow Material culture Performing arts Music Secretaries of State (State governments) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
1981 Florida Folk Festival
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- Four proof sheets with 87 images. P82-93 1-4 festival crowds 5-9 Ida Goodson with children 10-16 Secretary of State George Firestone with Thelma Boltin 17-20 Children P82-94 1-3 Ida Goodson playing piano 4-14 Beseda dancers from Masaryktown 15 Buckshot Barndancers 16-20 Unidentified P82-95 1 Unidentified 2-4, 18-21 views of main stage 5-17 Ida Goodson performing on the main stage P82-96 1-3 stagehand setting up Moses William's diddley bow 4-8 Moses Williams playing diddly bow 9,19-21 main stage 10-12 Thelma Boltin speaking to crowd from main stage 13-18 Ida Goodso
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1981 Florida Folk Festival | 1981 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Dance | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
1981 Florida Folk Festival
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- Description
- One proof with 21 images, plus negatives. 2-9 flk dances 10-19 crowds 20-21 Roy Lee Wallace, shoe shiner May 1981
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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 |
1981 July Fourth Celebration | 1981 July Fourth Celebration | Still Image | Festivals Holidays Holidays and festivals Fourth of July Special events Food Craft Demonstrations Games Music performance Performing arts Gospel (Black) Children | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
1981 July Fourth Celebration
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- 1981-07-04
- Description
- Eighty-four color slides. Images of the annual July Fourth celebration in 1981. Includes images of games (652-653, 656-667, 615-617, 673-675), crafts (632-648), food (618-627), performers like Frank and Ann Thomas (676-680, 684-687), Gamble Rogers (672), and gospel singers (649-651).
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1985 July Fourth Celebration at the Stephen Foster Memorial | 1985 July Fourth Celebration at the Stephen Foster Memorial | Still Image | Holidays and festivals Special events Music performance Bluegrass music String bands Gospel music Religious music Bluegrass musicians Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
1985 July Fourth Celebration at the Stephen Foster Memorial
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- 1985-07-04
- Description
- Fourteen color slides. 1251-1254: Hunter Family, gospel singers of Green Cove Springs; 1255-1258: Shotgun Bluegrass, quartet from Palatka; 1259-1260: Suwannee River Fire Band, of Live Oak; 1261-1264: Rev. Brown of White Springs singing gospel.
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1986 Florida Folk Festival (1 of 17) | 1986 Florida Folk Festival (1 of 17) | Moving Image | Musicians Artisans Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Bagpipe music Tsabouna Arts, Greek Greek Americans Palm frond weaving Seminole Indians Native Americans Patchwork Dolls Sweetgrass baskets Basket making Bagpipers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
1986 Florida Folk Festival (1 of 17)
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- 1986-05-24
- Description
- One video cassette (3/4" tape). 20 minutes. Nikitas and Toni Tsimouris: Nikitas performs on and Toni explains the tsabouna (Greek bagpipe); Seminole Family Camp - palm frond roofing, making ash, patchwork, dolls, sweetgrass basketry.
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