Fiddlers Jack Piccalo and Richard Seaman performing

Fieldwork

Italian Americans

Music performance

String instruments

Fiddles

Elderly, the

Musical traditions, Anglo-Americans

Musicians

Bluegrass musicians

Fiddlers

Nineteen color slides. Images of Piccalo, a self-taught Italian American bluegrass musician, and Seaman playing bluegrass and old-time fiddles tunes. A recording of this jam sesison may be found in S 1618, box 5, tape 7. For an interview with Piccalo -- and an example of his playing--, see S 1618, box 4, tapes 13-14. For an interview with Seaman, see S 1618, box 5, tapes 6 and 13. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1988-08-08

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1577

v. 54

S91-189 - S91-207

Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project

Hansen, Gregory

Seaman, Richard, 1904-2002

Piccalo, Jack, 1950-

Italian American

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