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Thursday afternoon performances at the 1954 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2)
Subject
Dancers
Singers
Quiltmakers
Needleworkers
Bands (Music)
Musicians
Accordionists
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Oral performance
Performing arts
Jump rope rhymes
Square dancing
Bluegrass music
Stringband music
String bands
Old time music
Accordion music
Filipino Americans
Peruvian Americans
Quilting
Patriotic songs
Folklorists
Students
Description
One reel to reel. Knott served as the emcee. See the festival program in S 1619, box 1 for more detailed information of the festival performers and activities not recorded.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Series S1576
Date
1954-05-06
Contributor
Florida Folk Festival
Stephen Foster Center
Format
sound recordings
audiotape reels
Type
Sound
Identifier
a_s1576_t76-002a
Series
S1576
Item ID
T76-2
Event Name
Florida Folk Festival
Florida Folk Festival (White Springs, Fla. : 1954)
Collector or Fieldworker
Barnes, Foster, 1903-1972
Stephen Foster Center
Tradition Bearer
Knott, Sarah Gertrude, 1895-1984
Hogan, Edna
Hillhouse, Cora, 1891-1967
Morgan, Dunwood
Taylor County Home Demonstration Club
Hendry, Norman, Mrs.
White Springs High School
Boreland, James L.
Kirkland, Edwin, 1902-1972
Jorolau, Esther
LaMasters, Ruth
LaPuente, Victor
Kettner, Max, -1963
Erixton, Bob, 1943-
Title of Work
Chicken Reel (Unidentified square dancers)
Kitty Wells (Hogan)
Froggie Went a Courting (Hillhouse/White Springs High School)
Rope skipping rhymes
Jimmie Cracks Corn
Little Brown Jug
Casey Jones (Morgan/Erixton)
Quilting Party (Taylor County Home Demonstration Club/ Hendry)
Blue Bells
When the Works All Done (Hendry)
Orange Blossom Special (White Springs High School String Band)