| 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.
- Collection
| 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.
- Collection
| 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
| 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
- Date
- 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.
- Collection
| 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
- Date
- Description
- 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
- Collection
| 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
- Date
- Description
- One proof with 21 images, plus negatives. 2-9 flk dances 10-19 crowds 20-21 Roy Lee Wallace, shoe shiner May 1981
- Collection
| 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
- Date
- 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).
- Collection
| 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
- Date
- 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)
- Date
- 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.
- Collection
Listen: The Folk Program
