The Portable Folk Festival

Festivals

Demonstrations

Folk festivals

Music performance

Performing arts

Folk dance

Body movement

African Americans

Singing

Banjoists

Workshops (Adult education)

Guitarists

Dancers

Guitarist

Blues singers

Musicians

Singers

Twenty-three color slides. For recordings of the performances, see S 1576, reels T77-277 through T77-279. 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. 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 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.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1977-04-16

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1577

v. 1

S77-200 - S77-222

Folklife In-State

Bulger, Peggy A.

Carawan, Guy, 1927-2015

Shines, Johnny, 1915-1992

Conway, Cece

Workman, Nimrod, 1895-1994

Red Clay Ramblers, The

Jones, "Bessie" (Mary Elizabeth), 1902-1984

Boyens, Phyllis, 1947-2009

African American

2012

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