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Collection ID is exactly "1" AND Subject is exactly "Steel guitars"
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Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 5)

Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 5)
Date
1999-05-29
Description
One audio cassette tape. Steel guitar player Kayton Roberts performed for over 30 years with Hank Snow on the Grand Old Opry. Iva Lee palyed piano, and Martin played fiddle.
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Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 5)

Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 5)
Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 6)

Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 6)
Date
1999-05-29
Description
One audio cassette tape. Steel guitar player Brownell recorded for EMI and RCA, and performed with many acts including Willie Nelson.
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Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 6)

Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 6)
Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 2)

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 2)
Date
1997-05-25
Description
One audio cassette recording. The Willie Eason interview and song, "Roosevelt", continues from C97-86. Laurie Sommers interviews Eileen Brautman on the subject of Jewish marriage contracts.
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Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 2)

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 2)
Antjuan Edwards interview for the Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project

Antjuan Edwards interview for the Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project
Date
1995-07-12
Description
One audiocassette recording. Recorded at the Ocala House of God Church #2. At the time, Edwards was a sophomore at Vanguard High School. He discussed playing and learning the sacred steel guitar. There is a significant amount of background noise, but the interview is still audible.
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Antjuan Edwards interview for the Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project

Antjuan Edwards interview for the Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project
Aubrey Ghent and his father Henry Nelson performing sacred steel music at various events

Aubrey Ghent and his father Henry Nelson performing sacred steel music at various events
Date
1993-11-26
Description
One audio cassette recording. (Duplicate can be found on tape 5.) The first half of the tape was recorded at a House of God "Family and Friends Day Celebration" in Daytona Beach on 5 September 1993. The second half was recorded at the Ocala House of God Church #2 on 26 November 1993, and the then at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival on May 24 1994 (for entire festival performance, see D94-20 in S 1576.) On the second half, the vocals are weak. The Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project originated in 1992 when Florida Folklife Program folklorist Robert Stone discovered that several predominantly African American House of God churches (a sub-sect of the Pentecostal church) in the St. Petersburg area were using steel guitars in their religious services. The practice began by Willie and Troman Eason in the 1930s, and expanded upon by players such as Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison. Realizing that this was a unique musical tradition, labeled Sacred Steel, the Florida Folklife Program to applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct fieldwork and create a music album for public dispersal. The aim of the project was to increase public awareness of the gospel steel guitar tradition, as well as document it for future generations. Matched with state funds, the grant period originally ran from October 1993 through October 1994, but was extended for another year. In that time Stone, along with sound engineers William Dudley and Mike Stapleton, interviewed and recorded several steel guitarists in the St. Petersburg area. An album entitled Sacred Steel was released in 1995. It was then re-released through an agreement with Arhoolie Records in 1997.
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Aubrey Ghent and his father Henry Nelson performing sacred steel music at various events

Aubrey Ghent and his father Henry Nelson performing sacred steel music at various events
Aubrey Ghent performing Father in Jesus Name

Aubrey Ghent performing Father in Jesus Name
Date
1993-09-05
Description
One audio cassette recording. For more of these two, see tape 3. The Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project originated in 1992 when Florida Folklife Program folklorist Robert Stone discovered that several predominantly African American House of God churches (a sub-sect of the Pentecostal church) in the St. Petersburg area were using steel guitars in their religious services. The practice began by Willie and Troman Eason in the 1930s, and expanded upon by players such as Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison. Realizing that this was a unique musical tradition, labeled Sacred Steel, the Florida Folklife Program to applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct fieldwork and create a music album for public dispersal. The aim of the project was to increase public awareness of the gospel steel guitar tradition, as well as document it for future generations. Matched with state funds, the grant period originally ran from October 1993 through October 1994, but was extended for another year. In that time Stone, along with sound engineers William Dudley and Mike Stapleton, interviewed and recorded several steel guitarists in the St. Petersburg area. An album entitled Sacred Steel was released in 1995. It was then re-released through an agreement with Arhoolie Records in 1997.
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Aubrey Ghent performing Father in Jesus Name

Aubrey Ghent performing Father in Jesus Name
Elton Noble submission for the 1994 Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Elton Noble submission for the 1994 Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program
Date
1994
Description
One audio cassette. Noble demonstrates his lap steel abilities for the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program application. He was apprentice to Aubrey Ghent. In 2017, Noble was inducted into the Sacred Steel Hall of Fame. For more information, see S 1644, box 11, folder 24.
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Elton Noble submission for the 1994 Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Elton Noble submission for the 1994 Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program
Friday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)
Date
1997-05-23
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT).
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Friday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Friday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)
Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 2)
Date
2000-05-26
Description
One audio cassette tape. Rich Mermer, Jr. performs traditional blues on steel guitar. He talks about different types of guitars (such as slide guitar, 1931 steel Resna guitar and wood-steel guitar) and the history of slides.
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Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 2)

Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 2)
Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 2)

Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 2)
Date
2004-05-28
Description
One compact disc. Kay, director of the Florida Folk Festival, served as emcee. They played gospel music on steel guitar, often referred to as sacred steel.
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Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 2)

Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 2)
Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
a_s1576_73_c99-026Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 5)SoundGuitarist
Pianists
Fiddlers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Steel guitars
Guitar music
Piano music
Fiddle music
Musicians		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_73_c99-027Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 6)SoundGuitarist
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Steel guitars
Guitar music
Country music
Popular songs
Musicians		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_68_c97-087Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 2)SoundSingers
Musicians
Guitarist
Artists
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Oral performance
Life histories
Interviewing
African Americans
Steel guitars
Guitar music
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Gospel musicians
Religious music
Religious songs
Personal experience narratives
Arts, Jewish
Jewish Americans
Jewish art and symbolism
Ketubah
Marriage contracts		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s2044_02_tape16Antjuan Edwards interview for the Sacred Steel Guitar Recording ProjectSoundField recordings
Steel guitars
Guitar music
African Americans
Religious songs
Religious music
Gospel songs
Oral histories
Interviews
Religion		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2044_02_tape03Aubrey Ghent and his father Henry Nelson performing sacred steel music at various eventsSoundGuitarist
Singers
Fieldwork
Steel guitars
Guitar music
Performing arts
Guitarists
Music performance
African Americans
Religious songs
Religious music
Gospel songs
Gospel musicians
Gospel (Black)
Festivals
Folk festivals
Special events
Church attendance
Church services
Protestants
Christianity
Churches
Religion
Musicians		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2044_02_tape09Aubrey Ghent performing Father in Jesus NameSoundFieldwork
Steel guitars
Guitar music
Performing arts
Guitarists
Music performance
African Americans
Religious songs
Religious music
Gospel songs
Gospel musicians
Gospel (Black)
Bands (Music)
Musical groups
Churches
Religion
Christianity
Protestants
Guitarist
Singers
Musicians		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1640_24_tape15Elton Noble submission for the 1994 Folk Arts Apprenticeship ProgramSoundSteel guitars
African Americans
Gospel music		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_76_d97-001Friday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)SoundSingers
Guitarist
Musicians
Dancers
Storytellers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Steel guitars
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Gospel musicians
Religious songs
African Americans
Arts, Japanese
Japanese Americans
Dance music
Folk dance
Marimba
Maya arts
Mayans
Arts, Mexican
Mexican Americans
Animal tales
Storytelling
Seminole Indians
Oral performance		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_81_c00-002Friday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 2)SoundFolk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Steel guitars
Blues (Music)
Singers
Musicians
Blues singers
Guitarist		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2034_02_cd04-002Friday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 2)SoundSingers
Guitarist
Musicians
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Steel guitars
African Americans
Gospel (Black)
Gospel songs
Gospel musicians
Religious music
Religious songs		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg