Title
Saturday performances at the 1975 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2)
Subject
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Singing
Dance music
Folk singers
Old time music
Oral performance
Gospel music
Animal sounds
Storytelling
Banjo music
Ballads
Seminole Indians
Folk songs, French
French Americans
Songs, French
Singers
Dancers
Storytellers
Banjoists
Musicians
Description
One reel to reel recording. The Smiths were from Jacksonville. Dobbs, from Palatka, performed animal calls. Dixon, of Miami, sang ballads. Frog Smith was a storyteller (and painter) from Fort Myers. Battle was from Tampa. Boltin was the director (and emcee) for the festival. The Beadnells were form Orange Park. The Seafood Combo was from Tallahassee and consisted: Tony Verderamo, Larry Abrams, and Pam Mansfield. The Stephens were fiddlers from Panama City. The Kellys were from Palatka, as was Dobbs. The LeFever family lived in Knoxville, Tennessee. Lydia and the Pinkhams, of Lakeland, consisted of: Peggy Burr; Didi Bentley; Barbara Smith; Tricia Conner; and Mike O'Steen. Smith was from Marietta, Georgia. Whatley was from Bell, and sang country music. Close, of Jacksonville, played harmonica. Mark was a guitarist from Chapel Hill, N.C. Mt. Carmel Freewill Church Choir were from Palatka. Cadwell was a banjoist from Jackson Heights, N.Y. Bloodworth earned a history PhD at UF regarding place names.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Series S1576
Contributor
Florida Folklife Program
Stephen Foster Center
Florida Folk Festival
Identifier
a_s1576_t79-017
Title of Work
Doodle Dandy (Jay & Peggy Smith)
Patriotic Diggers
Animal Calls (Tommy Dobbs)
Red Rosey Bush (Robert Dixon)
Goodbye Old Paint
Florida Cowboy songs (Frog Smith)
Roving Gambler (Paul Battle)
Early Morning Rain
Brer Rabbit and Brer Alligator (Thelma Boltin)
The Lonesome Dove (Tom & Esther Beadnell)
Yankee Doodle
Jesus on the Mainline (Seafood Combo)
Carnival in Venice
Turkey in the Straw (Zeke & Rosa Stephens)
Down Yonder
I Am My Own Grandpa (Peggy & Lee Kelly)
The Devil and the Farmers Wife
The Unfortunate Moonshiner (LeFever Family)
Ragtime Annie
John Henry (Lydia and the Pinkhams)
East Virginia
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot & When the Siants Go Marching In
Little Sparrow (Betty Smith)
Foggy Dew
Unidentified song
Red Rosey Bush (incomplete)
Its a Holiday (Sonia Malkine)
I am Troubled in My Mind
Unidentified Scottish song
I Have Been Everywhere (Carolton Whatley)
Yall Come
When Spring Comes Knocking at the Door (American Czechoslavakia Dancers)
At Our Army Barracks
Small Mountain
Jokes (Uncle Charlie Close)
Depression Blues (Joe Mark)
Ballad of Orange County
Shady Grove
Wrapped Up in Jesus (Mt. Carmel Freewill Church Choir)
I Want To Be At the Meeting
In the Morning
Amen
St. Louis Tickle (Paul Cadwell)
Dance medley
Olenos Ragtime Episode
Monologue (Lottie and Frank Shore)
Jesus Loves Me (Jumper)
Florida Place Names (Bertha Bloodworth) (Cont. on T79-18)
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