Sunday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 20)

Festivals

Folk festivals

Folklore revival festivals

Special events

Music performance

Singing

Bluegrass music

Old time music

Banjo music

Singers

Musicians

Guitarist

Banjoists

Bluegrass musicians

One reel to reel recording. Fitchen served as emcee. Red played guitar, and Murphy the mandolin and the banjo. Their performance began on T87-58. Red and Murphy began as Red and Murphy and Co., who performed in the Southeast between 1975 and 1987. The bluegrass group consists of Red Henry on guitar and mandolin, and his wife Murphy Henry on banjo (and the group's songwriter), as well as two of Murphy's sisters -- Argen Hicks and Nancy Hicks. All members sang harmony. Based out of Hawthorne, Florida, Red was from North Florida, while the sisters were all Georgia natives. The group performed at the 1978 and 1987 Florida Folk Festival. After that, they performed as a duo. By the late 1990s, Murphy was a renowned banjo instructor, and Red toured with their son Chris.

State Archives of Florida, S1576

1987-05-24

Florida Folklife Program

Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park

Florida Folk Festival

sound recordings

audiotape reels

Sound

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S1576

T87-59

Florida Folk Festival

Florida Folklife Program

Henry, Red, 1949-

Henry, Murphy

Fitchen, Eugenia "Jeanie" Sisinni, 1951-

Fried Chicken (Red & Murphy Henry)

Hold Back the Waters

Riding Around on Saturday Night

Dueling Banjos

Pig in a Pen

I'm Little, But I'm Loud

John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man

When You Are Cutting on That Cold, Cold Corpse

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