Fiddler Willie Jones and his apprentice Trenda Slaughter

Fieldwork

Fiddles

Performing arts

Music performance

String instruments

Musical instruments

Fiddling

Apprentices

Fiddlers

Musicians

One proof sheet with thirty black and white images (plus negatives); 34 color slides. Images of Jones teaching Slaughter old-time fiddling. Apprentice Slaughter was funded to learn from Jones bowing, double stops, twin fiddling, and sixteen old-time tunes. For more information on Jones and Slaughter, see S 1644, box 11, folder 27. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2004.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1640

1994

Florida Folklife Program

photographs

Still Image

S1640

16

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Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Stone, Robert, 1944-

Jones, Willie, 1923-2006

Slaughter, Trenda, 1963-

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