1st Annual All Florida Folk Festival Schedule, 1953

Folk Festivals--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs

Festivals, Events and Conferences

Festivals--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs

Schedule for the 1st Annual All Florida Folk Festival held May 8-10, 1953, in White Springs.

Stephen Foster Memorial Commission

State Archives of Florida, Series S1619

1953-05-08

Florida Federation of Music Clubs

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ALL FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL Sponsored by Stephen Foster Memorial Commission and Florida Federation of Music Clubs FRIDAY AFTERNOON - - May 8, 9, 10 STEPHEN FOSTER MEMORIAL GROUNDS, WHITE SPRINGS, FLORIDA PROGRAM IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE) THIS PROGRAM COMPLIMENTS LAKE CITY REPORTER - LAKE CITY, FLORIDA MORNING CONFERENCE Open To The Public - Free WOMEN"S CLUB, WHITE SPRINGS Friday 9:30 A.M. to 12 o'clock ALTON C. MORRIS, Chairman University of Florida, Gainesville Introductory Remarks ---- J.L. McMullen, President All Florida Folk Festival Panel Discussion Theme: "What Is Folklore?" ---- Edwind C. Kirkland University of Florida, Leader "Florida PLace Names in the Tallahassee Area" ---- Miss Marion Thompson "Folk Riddles Collected in Florida" ---- Alton C. Morris University of Florida "The Challenge of Folk Festival Movement in United States Today" ---- Sarah Gertrude Knott Director, All Florida Folk Festival EXHIBITS Friday through Sunday - May 8 - 10 SPRING HOUSE - WHITE SPRINGS Be sure to see beautiful handmade Czechoslovakian embroidery and handwork from the Old Country. rare collection probably not possible to see in any prt of the country. Brought fomr Masaryktown by Czechoslovakian Anna Seriancik and Mrs. Frederick Eugene Lykes. HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING WHITE SPRINGS Histroic exhibits from the Jasper High School Festival will be on exhibit at the White Springs High School throughout the Festival Days. Vincent DeShazo, Principal, Jasper High School and William Odom, General Supervisor of Hamilton County Schools, in charge. FRIDAY AFTERNOON May 8 - 1:30 P.M. OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL - TOWN CRIER INDIAN MUSIC AND DANCES Seminole Tribe or Cow Creeks (tentative), Orlando. Leader. The Seminoles have returned to their old stamping ground, originally known as White Sulphur Springs, where for generations Indians from this region made journeys to drink the water which they knew had healing powers. AMERICAN SQUARE DANCES Bud Taylor's Dancers, Steinhatchee. Grapevine Twist. Make a Little Basket. The American Square Dance has become the common denominator in the revival of folk dances among our people of different races and nationalities. Never has there been such widespread interest as can be found today. The Square Dance differs somewhat in various regions. FLorida's favorite form is the "Circle". It dies not require a number in a "Square", but can include almost any number of couples. SINGING GAMES - Girls Scout Troop No. 1, Lake City, Mrs. Jay W. Brown, Leader. BRITISH BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS With Auto-Harp accompaniment; Valerie Haynes, State University Tallahassee. Skye Boat Song. A Scottish sea chantey of around 1745, when Charles, The Young Pretender, escaped to the Isle of Skye. Barbara Allen. An old Scottish ballad. Alton C. Morris, Univeristy of Florida, has collected and published many of the British ballads and folk songs found in this state in his "Folk Songs of FLorida". These songs which can be found in many states, handed down orally, were popular in the British Isles when English colonists landed on the Atlantic coastline. FOLK SONGS Live Oak High School Glee Club; Mrs. E. Bardin Hunter, Leader. Medley of Stephen Foster Songs, arranged by Luiz Gutzman. Cindy. SQUARE DANCES Jasper School, Vincent DeShazo, Principal; Jack Sandlin, Caller. Jasper String Band Musicians. This group comes from the Jasper school festival, one of a number of school festivals recently held preliminary to the ALL FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL to help create appreciation and understanding of folklore among the school children of the region. Skip to My Lou, arranged by Harry Robert Wilson. NEGRO SINGING GAMES Jasper and White Springs Negro schools. Drop the Handkerchief. Sally Walker. Many of the singing games used by Negro children were adapted from those of the white children. However some of them were created by Negroes. SOUTHER SUPERSTITIONS J. Russell Reaver, Florida State Univeristy, Tallahassee. These superstitions came from an unpublished manuscipt of "Superstitions of the South", recently made by Dr. Reaver. Most of them are common to the people of differnet races and nationalities in our country. BRITISH BALLADS James. L. Borland, Jacksonville. The Two Sisters The Willow Tree More than three hundred British ballads have been found in this country and in Canada. Often the songs which tell stories are known under other names and are sung to different tunes. The words also vary. TRADITIONAL SERMON Hon. Herbert S. Phillips, Tampa. One of the traditional sermons learned by Mr. Phillips from former slaves. BRITISH AND AMERICAN FOLK SONGS Choral Group, Orlando Wednesday Music Club; Grace Krick Sanford, Director. Murmur on Sweet Harp - Stephen Foster. Goin' to Boston - Kentucky mountain folk song, arranged by Katherine Davis. I Love Little Willie - A Southern mountain song, arranged by Harry Wilson. Lollytoodum - American folk song, arranged Griffith. Many of the Federated Music Clubs of the Florida, like the Orlando Club, are espcially emphasizing folk music throughout this section, as well as in others, because of the ecouragement of the National President of the Federated Music Clubs, Mrs. Ada Holding Miller, Providence, R.I. FIDDLE AND HARMONICA TUNES Suwannee River Playboys, Jamboree, Live Oak; Aubrey Fowler, Leader. Raggedy Ann. 8th of January. Dark Town Strutters Ball. Listen to the Mocking Bird. Many fiddlers throughout the land know hundreds of tunes which they play "by ear", never having had a music lesson in their lives. Some of the tunes were created here by our own fiddlers; others were made in the British Isles. FOLK SONGS Memorial Home Community Women's Chorus, Penney Farms; Mrs. Alice W. Curtis, Director. Levee Son. Song of the Frog. Medley of Folk Songs. Singing plays an important part in the recreation of three hundred retired Christian workers living on the campus of the Memorial Home at Penney Farms. HARMONICA TUNES Jasper School, Jimmy Crews. Suwannee River - Stephen Foster. Camptown Races - Stephen Foster. Old Black Joe - Stephen Foster. Had Stephen Foster lived in the days before the printing press, no doubt many of his songs would have passed as "anonymous" folk songs. The old theory that a folk song must be anonymous has been disproved by the Foster songs. Although the author's name in known, most folk musicians, Jimmy included, have not learned the songs from books but from oral tradition as other folk songs are usually learned by real folk singers. FOLK SONGS Franklin Davis Lewis, Grand Ridge. I've Been Working on the Railroad. Home On The Range. NEGRO FOLK TALES Annie Tomlin, White Springs. Brer Rabbit, de Tar Baby, and Mr. Fox. Annie knows many of the same tales Joel Chandler Harris included in his book. They have been handed down in the familes of many Negroes of Florida for generations. ALLIGATOR - SUWANNEE RIVER TALES T.P. Chaires, Old Town. Bell of Suwannee. City of Hawkinsville. Mr. Chaires belongs to one of the old Huguenot families. He and his brother were rancers in the days when hundreds of catte were regularly driven across the river and down the trail to Tampa. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN FOLK Songs Choral Group, Tuesday Music Club, Clearwater; Aurelia Tregillus, Director.

Jennie June - Stephen Foster. Down in the Valley - Kentucky moutain folk song. I'se Mighty Tired - Negro Spiritual. What's in the Air - English folk song. The Florida Federation of Music Clubs, one of the sponsors of this Festival, believe that it is highly important to preserve through continued use the unadorned folk music as it has been handed down orally from preceding generations. ROPE SKIPPING RHYMES AND FOLK Songs Jasper High School, Mrs. J.R. Tuten, Mrs. W.A. Bradley, Vincent DeShazo, leaders. Jenny on the Ocean; Teddy Bear; Red White and Blue; Arkansas; Arithmetic; Down in the Valley. Some of these familiar rope skipping rhymes known to children throughout the country were made from the Old World centuries ago. Others were created as new as yesterday's newspaper headlines. BRITISH BALLAD Tyrie A. Boyer, Williston. Farmer's Curst Wife. NEGRO FOLK TALE Mose Miles, Tallahassee. Brer Rabbit and Brer Alligator. Moses carries in his memory many animal tales which he has known since childhood almost 75 years ago. NEGRO SPIRITUALS Douglas High School, Live Oak; T.D. Dansby, Principal; Carrie James Clark, Director. Good News; Let Us Break Bread Together; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; I'm Trampin. Many of the Negro Spirituals grew up in this country during th dark days of slavery and reflect the soul cry of a race in bondage at a period in our history when there was not the general recogninition of human rights which exists today. FRIDAY EVENING May 8 - 8:00 P.M. OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL TOWN CRIER INDIAN MUSIC AND DANCES Seminole Tribe or Cow Creeks (tentative), Orlando, Leader. When the first Spanish and British Isle settlers came to this section of the United States they found Indians carrying on their age-old traditional customs. They had their Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter ceremonials, songs and dances, for every important event in their lives. HISTORY, FOLK SONGS, AND DANCES - CUSTOMS FROM OLD SAN AGUSTIN The St. Augustine Histroical and St. Cecelia Club. Mrs. Eleanor Phillis Barnes, Narrator-Composer; J. Carver Harris, Evelyn Vaille Kettner, Directors; Mrs. Lillian Lindsey, Dance Director; Mrs. A.C. Kitchler, Mrs. Hovey Rich, Assistants; Max Kettner, Accompanist. Scene I Fiesta of Old Dan Agustin The Plaza 1687 History will span 122 years breifly. The Jester and Midgets were favorites of Don Pedro Menendez. They will frolic for the great Adelantado, who founded the city in 1565. Scene II Easter with the Minorcans The Plaza, 1787 The Minorcans came to St. Augustine from the Island of Minorca in the Mediterranean Sea in 1768 when St. Augustine was a British possession. They landed at New Smyrna but after nine years rebelled and took up residence in St. Augustine. Fromajardis - Sung at Easter to honor the Virgin Mary. A custom brought by the Minorcans. Barcarolla - A folk song from Majorca. Tossing the Shrimp Nets - A custom in which the young men of the community tossed shrimp nets over the heads of the girls in the Minorcan Gypsy dance, at Festival time. Spanish and Gypsy Dance. QUILTING PARTY Taylor County Group, Mrs. Lucille Hamiter, President, Senior Home Demonstration Council, Florida State University, Tallahassee; Mrs. Ruth Elkins, Assistant. Square Dances - Perry High School Dancers. Cowboy Sings - Norman C. Hendry, Guitarist and Singer, accompanied by Mrs. Hendry on the Auto-Harp. When the Work's All Done This Fall. Little Joe, The Wrangler. Most of the cowboy songs, like most other folk songs, are anonymous. However, it is known that Cowboy Jack Thorpe of Alameda, New Mexico, composed the originial "Little Joe, The Wrangler". Sacred Harp Songs - Sacred Harp Singers, Taylor County. What Wonderous Love Is This. A Thought of Death. These two songs come from the Sacred Hard shape-note book cherished by many southern singing school mosters and classes. This type of singing was the earliest musical training available especially in the rural commnuities of the region. A singing master usually "pitches" the tune and singers sing the four "buckwheat" or "shape" notes first, then sing the words. Tale of Slave Days - A former slave from Taylor County. ARRANGED FOLK Songs Quartette, Wednesday Music Club. Orlando; Grace Kirk Sanford, Director. Lonesome Valley - North Carolina folk song, arranged by John Jacob Niles. I Wonder As I Wander - arranged by B. DeHaven. Carry Me 'Long - Stephen Foster. AMERICAN SQUARE DANCES Bud Taylor's Dancers, Steinhatchee. BANJO, QUILL BLOWER AND FIDDLE TUNES Suwannee River Playboys, Jamboree, Live Oak; Aubrey Fowler, Leader. Turkey in the Straw - An American tune, which Carl Sandburg says, "is as American as Andre Jackson, Johnnie Appleseed or corn-on-the-cob." Arkansas Traveler, with dialogue - Said to have been based on a true incident in Arkansas. Irish Washerwoman - Originally a fiddle tune, honoring the Irish woman. FOLK SONG - Valerie Haynes, State University, Tallahassee. Barbara Allen. GHOST TALE Thelma Boltin, University of Florida, Gainesville. Old Knocker. The story of a South Carolina ghost from Orangeburg, hometown of Miss Boltin. John Wesley said he had never seen a ghost, but was always looking for one. Since time immemorial many people have believed that at certain timesa the dead return to walk the earth, especially at "the witching hour". ALLIGATOR - SUWANNEE RIVER TALE T.P. Chaires, Old Town. NEGRO FOLK TALES Annie Tomlin, White Springs. NEGRO SINGING GAMES Hamilton County Negro School, E.W. Graham, Carver High School White Springs, Leader. FOLK Songs Bertha Cole, Artist's Music Club, Lakeland; Mrs. Leo Hierhol, leader The Nightingale - Kentucky mountain folk song, arranged by Wyman and Brockway. Go Way From My Window - arranged by John Niles. FOLK DANCES - Port Richey, Violet Thomas, Leader. In a Garden - Ukranian. Polka Mazurka - Lithuanian. Espan - White Russian. NEGRO SPIRITUALS LINING HYMNS Combined Congregations from White Springs Negro Churches, George Newsome, Leader. their traditional heritages to this country from the Old World. Until recent years newer American citizens were encouraged to cast aside old homeand cultures and customs and become "100 per cent Americans". Now, however, it is generally recognized that it is highly important for us to cherish and keep flourishing all the heritages of our people of diverse cultural background to give us better understanding of our own neighbors as well as more genuine appreciation of the peoples of the world to whom we have suddenly become neighbors. LATIN AMERICAN FOLK Dances University of Florida, Gainesville; Prof. Pedro Fernandez, Leader. SQUARE DANCES - Florida State University, Tallahassee; Betty Doss Barbarick, leader. Suwannee River Playboys, Live Oak, Musicians. SATURDAY AFTERNOON May 9 - 1:30 P.M. OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL TOWN CRIER SEMINOLE INDIAN MUSIC DANCES Seminole Tribe, or Cow Creeks (tentative), R.D. Mitchell, Orlando, Leader. SPANISH DANCES AND Music Spanish Group, Ybor; Pedro Fernandez, University of Florida, Gainesville, Leader. AMERICAN SQUARE DANCES University of FLorida Faculty Bart, Dancers, Gainesville; Earnest R. Bartley, Leader. FIDDLE TUNES Midnight Serenaders - William Talbott, Gordon Jackson, Gainesville. SINGING GAMES Girl Scouts, Troop 8, Lake City; Mrs. A.K. Black, Leader. This group always participates in the county-wide Scout festival usually held each year in Lake City, encouraging the use of folk songs and dances by Scout groups in the country. BRITISH BALLAD Tyrie A. Boyer, Williston. RIDDLES Alton C. Morris, University of Florida, Gainesville. ANGLP-AMERICN FOLK SONGS Mrs. H.K. Wallace, Gainesville. "Froggie Went A-Courtin'" is one of the most widely known of children's traditional songs. It is known in many European countries where the versions differ in words and tunes. "Little Mohea" is an American version based on a British Isles song. NEGRO SINGING GAMES Carver High School, White Springs, E.W. Graham, Leader. FOLK SONGS Bobby Barnes, Mountainburg, Arkansas. FOLK DANCES Port Richey Dancers; Dr. A.M. Sorenson and Violet Thomas, Leaders. This outstanding choral group comes from many parts of the country on tour each year. Many folk songs, religious and secular are in their ever expanding repertoire. INTERMISSION MAY PARTY Leon High School, Tallahassee; Mrs. Eunice Johnston, General Chairman; Patsy Gilliam, Dance Director; Mrs. Ouida Paul Talley, May Pole Dance Director. Processional.

Crowning of the Queen. May Pole Dance. Indian Fantasy. May Day has long been an occasion of Spring merrymaking in many lands. The old custom of a May Party has been an annual occurence in Talahassee for ore than a hundred years. The Crowning of the Queen has not changed much, but the fances used in the ceremony change, as seem logical, from year to year. BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS Valerie Haynes, State University, Tallahassee. Skye Boat Song. Wayfaring Stranger. Barbara Allen. "Barbara Allen" has been a "song hit" for generations of ballad singers in this country and wherever the British Isles traditions have spread. this song was mentioned by Pepys in his "Diary". It was known to Addison and Pope. It, like many other British ballads, and folk songs handed down orally, had many different versions, tunes and titles. FIDDLE TUNES White Springs High School Band; Malcom Green, Nathan Morgan and Wade Harris; Vincent Bardnard, Leader. Down Yonder. Mississippi Sawyer. 8th of January. Some of the fiddle tunes, known to fiddlers in most states, were made in the British Isles; others were the creations of our own natural born musicians. "Mississippi Sawyer" is ours, as the name indicates. The "8th of January" honors the Victory of Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, fought on January 8th. FIDDLE, GUITAR, HARMONICA MARIMBA TUNES Suwanneee River Playboys, Jamboree; Arnold "Red" Brim, Dan Herring, Lemuel Herring, Cecil Herring, Johnnie Bonds, Danny Parsons, LeRoy McDaniels; Aubrey Fowler, Leader. CZECHOSLOVAKIAN BESEDA Czechoslavakian Dancers, Masaryktown; Frances Valenta, Mrs. Frederick Eugene Lykes, Leaders; Jerry Psenka, Accordionist. For centuries Czechoslavkia has been divided and sub-divided every few generations by conquerors. Wherever her people have scattered the deeply rooted folk traditions of the native land long passed down from generation to generation, have served as stong bonds uniting the people who are continually battling for the freedom of their homeland. Sponsored by their Senior Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis Club, Junior Serivce League of Brooksville and Masaryktown. AMERICAN SQUARE DANCE Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Jacksonville; Rev. A.C. Chace, Leader. The Mutual Improvement League of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has done much in recent years to encourage the use of folk songs and dances among Mormon people throughout the country. In the early days of the church Leader Brigham Young believed strongly in dancing as a leisure-time activity. He said, "he tossed off his troubles with his toes". NEGRO SPIRITUALS Used in Gathering Turpentine Gum Charlie Tate and family, White Springs. NEGRO SPIRITUALS - Jasper and White Springs Groups. SATURDAY EVENING May 9 8:00 P.M. OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL TOWN CRIER SEMINOLE INDIANS Seminole Tribe (Tentative). SPANISH DANCES AND MUSIC Ybor Group - SOUTH AMERICAN DANCES, University of Florida, Pedro Fernadez. (See afternoon program). AMERICAN SQUARE DANCES University of Florida Faculty Group, Gainesville; Earnest R. Bartley, Leader. Jasper School Dancers, Vincent DeShazo, Principal. Jack Sandlin, Caller. The American Square Dance, as it has developed in our country, includes the "circle" and "line" s well as the "square" formation. In New England the "line" formation. In New England the "line" formation is most popular. In Pennsylvania the "square" is almost universally used. In the Southern Appalachians the "circle" formation is most popular because it allows for almost any number of couples of dancers. FOLK DANCES FROM CLEARWATER - Northward School, Clearwater, Margaret White, rche; tea ehtuR R1 -- shrdm teacher; Ruth Stanfield, pianist. Folk Dances, White Springs School, Mildred Young, teacher. FOLK SONGS - Mrs. H.K. Wallace, Gainesville. The Twa Sisters. Willikins and Dinah. FOLK SONGS FROM THE OZARKS Bobby Barnes, Mountainburg, Arkansas. Bobby, a native Texan, has learned many of her folk songs in her adopted home in the heart of the Ozarks from which Vance Randolph has made his great collection. The Arkansas Folklore Society, Otto Ernest Rayburn, President, University of Arkansas vehicle, sent Bobby iwth her Auto-Harp to Florida's first Folk Festival. FOLK SONGS AND SINGING-GAMES White Springs School, mrs. Cora Hillhouse, Teacher and Leader. When the World's on Fire. Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray. Boll Weevil Song. Sandyland - a Singing-Game. Mrs. Hillhouse, teacher in the elementary grades at the White Springs school, comes from a long line of Southerners who have handed folk songs down orally from generation to generation. She believes that interchange of folk traditions among people of different races and nationalities can do much in helping to bring about mutual understanding, especially if development of appreciation of basic cultures begins in childhood. RIDDLES Alton C. Morris, University of Florida, Gainesville. The riddle must be one of the oldest forms of folklore. Many of the same ones are known to our people of diverse cultural background. A number of the popular radio programs are built on the old riddle formula. EL JARABE TAPITIO Nettie Black, Lake City. This "Mexican Hat Dance" is the national dance of Mexico. It is a couple courtship dance. Tonight it is a solo. LEGEND ND FOLK TALE Thelma Boltin,Gainesville. Old Knocker - A ghost who "haunted" Miss Boltin's great aunt's house in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. The Devil Millhopper - A lonely sinkhole around Gainesville. Legend of Florida Moss. NEGRO SPIRITUALS TURPENTINE SONGS Charlie Tate family, White Springs. Many Negoes in Florida, perhaps more than in most states, still sing as they work, or in their leisure time. The chief recreation for Chalies's family is singing in an inimitable way the songs that have been handed down for generations in this part of the state. The songs presented here are used in working in turpentine forests on the Anderson farm near White Springs. SCANDINAVIN DANCERS Dr. A.M. Sorensen and Freida Carter, New Port Richey. Dr. Sorensen will lead in informal dancing after tonight's Festival program ends. For a number of years he has worked with the outstanding folk dance leader, Vytautas F. Beliajus of the International House, University of Chicago. He will be glad to assist an group around White Springs during Festival Days. INTERMISSION FIDDLE TUNES Jaspar and Jennings String Bands; Alvin Johnson Jasper; Hoyt and Shorty Dees, Jennings. HARMONICA, GUITAR, QUILL BLOWER TUNES Suwannee River Jamboree musicians; Aubrey and M.J. Fowler, Leaders. Billy in the Low Grounds. Leather Breeches. Arkansas Traveler, with dialogue. Turkey in the Straw. Old Joe Clarke. The fiddler was among the most interesting and picturesque character in pioneer America. He was valued because often he was the only musician in the community. Pioneers like his tunes. He was a necessity for dances in small cabin homes. In many communities the dances have become so large that the fiddlers' tunes are lost and the records push "live" musicians further and further into the background. Farm organizations in this region and other civic leaders are doing a great service in helping to keep alive and flourishing the fiddlers tunes which are such an important item in the still-existing body of folklore. TALES AND SONGS FROM THE OLD SOUTH Nina Olver Dean, Carol Farson, Rollins College, Winter Park. The Martin Story. Creation Legend. The Derby Song - a tall tale story. ROPE SKIPPING RHYMES J.R.E. Lee School, Jasper. This is one of a number of children's groups in this area which has particiated in the preliminary festivals held in schools encouraging the use of simple folk activities as leisure-time recreation. HARMONICA TUNES Arnold Howell, O'Brien; Hulon Howell, O'Briend; LeRoy McDaniels, Live Oak. SINGING-GAMES SQUARE DANCES Girl Scouts, Troop 8, Lake City; Mrs. A.K. Black, Leader. Red River Valley. Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight. Interest in the singing game has not kept pace with the revival of interest in the square dance. In the old days it was more widely used than the dance because the fiddle which accompanied square dancing was considered the "instrument of Satan". These tow groups have participated in a number of Scout Folk Festivals usually held around Lake City each year encouraging the use of all kinds of folk activity in Scout work. FOLK SONGS With Auto-Harp Accompaniment; Valerie Haynes, State University, Tallahassee. Barbara Allen. Wayfaring Stanger. The Auto-Harp is claimed by both France and Germany. It is especially appropriate for accompanying ballad singers because it is easy to play. CZECHOSLOVAKIAN BESEDA FOLK SONGS Czechoslovakian Dancers, Masaryktown; Frances Valenta, Leader; Jerry Psenka, Accordionist. This combination of the characteristic figures of the Beseda of the Czechs, Moravians, Carptho-Russians and Slovaks was made at the great International Sokol Meeting in Prague in 1938. Most Czech groups throughout the country now use this dance, which really reflects something of Czech histroy. Czechoslovakia's map has been changed since then, but this dance

has taken strong root wherever Czechoslovakians live and no doubt it will help to strengthen the battle for freedom which Czechoslovakians everywhere today are fighting either morally and physically. The Czechoslovakians at Masaryktown are proudly continuing the rich traditional legacies of their old homeland but they, like other more recent immigrant groups are proudly claiming and learning the songs and dances which have grown up in this country. Jerry Psenka will end this program with "Beautiful Dreamer" by Stephen Foster. SQUARE DANCE Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Jacksonville; A.C. Chase, Leader. SUNDAY May 10 - 2 P.M. RELIGIOUS SONG FESTIVAL Featuring traditional music by religious groups of different faiths. OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL TOWN CRIER INIDIAN MUSIC AND DANCES (Tentative) Seminole Tribe. SONGS FROM THE SACRED HARP Choir Members, First Presbyterian Church, Gainesville; Miss Ouida Powell and Mrs. Sidney W. Godwin, Leaders. Holy Manna - a favorite old song used at singing schools of Vermont for over a hundred years; authorship is credited to J.W. Moore, Editor and Publisher of "Encyclopedia of Music" around 1876. Wayfaring Stranger - A religious ballad which borrowed its tune in County Sligo, Ireland. Wondrous Love - John 3:16 "For God so loved the world . . ." The authorship of the words and music of this tune are unknown. Amazing Grace - Old tune. The original title was "Faith's Review and Expectations" as found in "Olney's Selections". John Newton, who died in 1807, wrote the hymn after finally being converted to the work of his Master. He became a power of strength as a preacher, poet and hymn writer. Evening Shade - John Leland, 1835. John 9:4. "The night cometh when no man can work". The Sared Harp song book, with its "buckwheat" or "shape-notes." A, sol, la, mi," was printed in Georgia over a hundred years ago. It was and is still a musical Bible for thousands of singers in the South who still prefer this old-type of singing. The songs sprang from the soil of early America, among rual Baptist, Presbyterians and Methodists. They were not written down until about 100 years ago. SHAPE-NOTE SONGS Hawthorne Singers, Hawthorne; James W. Sims, Leader. Oh Come, Angel Band! A favorite song of the old singing school, written by one of the most outstanding song-writers of the period, W.D. Bradbury, 1816-1868. The Old Gospel Ship - Arranged by Alphus Le Fevre. My Mother's Bible - Charlie D. Tillman. Parting Hand - Jeremiah Ingals, 1805. A favorite fellowship song used by many rural churches and singing societies as a farewell song at the close of meetings. For a number of years folklorists have given much attention to various phases of our secular folklore. However, almost no attention had been paid to the rich store of religious folk songs until the late George Pullen Jackson began his significant research about 19 years ago. He brought to light a most important chapter in our religious folk song history, resulting in his "White Spirituals" in the Southern "Uplands" and other books telling the story of the "shape-note" singers, camp meeting songs, and the relation of White and Negro spitituals. JEWISH SONGS Jewish Center, Jacksonville; Cantor A. Marton, Director. Heveinu Shalom - Salute to Israel Folk Song, arranged by Jacob Weinberg. "We Bring Peace Greetings" - The traditional greeting song. Kumah Adonai - Rise Up, Lord; arranged by M. Grauman. In the center of the Synagogue service stands the reading from the Torah. When the Ark is opened the congregation chants Numbers 10:35-36, the call to march in their Wilderness which was led by the Ark of the Covenant. "For out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of God from Jerusalem". Shir Ha-Emek - Song of the Emek; arranged by A.W. Binder. A victory song of Israeli pioneers. With hrd labor the harvest is achieved. Barren soil has been conquered. "Lofty mountains kiss in the night, hands that plow, recap harvest bright". Reb Dovidel - Rabbi David, Zavel Zilberts. The ecstasy with which a group of Hassidim receive the news that the beloved wonder-working rabbi moved from a neighboring city to make his home with them. Hashkiveinu - Max Helfman. Solo, Cantor A. Marton. From the synagogue worship. Expresses the innermost aspirations of man and his faith in God. "Grant us, O God, peace and rest as we recline, and may we awake to a day of happy life . . . for Thou are our Father, or Saviour and our Guardian". RELIGIOUS SONGS OF THE GREEKS Greek Orothdox Chruch; Jacksonville; Rev. Efhymios Papagisis, Sponsor; Christ Kartsanis, Leader. CZECHOSLOVAKIAN EASTER SONG Czechoslovakian Congregation, Masaryktown; Frances Valenta, Mrs. Frederick Eugene Lykes, Leaders; Jerry Psenka, Accordionist. He Is Risen. A centuries old religious song used in Czechoslovakian churches and in many others which have inherited the music of the Greek Orthodox Church. RELIGIOUS BALLADS Valerie Haynes, State University, Tallahassee; Bobby Barnes, Mountainburg, Arkansas. PROVERBS Francis C. Hayes, University of Florida, Gainesville. TUNES ON THE MUSICAL SAW Aubrey Gunscombe, Gainesville; Margaret Merchant, Accompanied by her daughter, Jensene Godwin, Gainesville. Et Barn er Fodt I Bethlehem - "A Child is Born in Bethlehem". Lille Guds Barn Hvad Skader Dig - "God's Little Child, What Troubles Thee". Brode of Sout, Vi killes Nu Ad - "Brothers and Sisters, We Now Must Depart". Mrs. Godwin, of Swedish descent, originally native of Wisconsin, remembers from childhood the singing of this song around the graveside of loved ones. The collection of Danish folk songs "Folkeviser" by Bishop Gruntvig, 1703 awakened religious moral and religious consciousness in Denmark. It was the greatest single influence in Danish national re-birth. It started Danish folk schools to create national pride and patriotism. CONGREGATIONAL SINGING Led by Lester Hall, University of Florida. PRIMITIVE BAPTIST SONGS Zion's Hope Primitive Baptist Church, Live Oak; Rev. T.T. Law, and Mrs. Eustis Collins, Leaders. No. 75 - Christ, Rose of Sharon; a "glory of christ" song. No. 237 - Pleasures of Following Christ; A Baptism song. No. 252 - Welcome to the Table - A Communion or Foot-Washing song. The book from which these songs are sung contains only the words of many lovely songs for every religious occasion. The tunes are carried in the memory of the singers since there are no notes in the book. NEGRO SPIRITUALS Charles Tate and Family, White Springs. Right To the tree of Light; Above My Head I See Colors; Talk About Jesus; I Dont What He Said; I had to Move Into the Room of the Lord. These are a few of the many songs used by the tate family as they work in the pine forests gathering sap. The songs are known to other Negro singers but the spontaneous arrangements here belong only to the "singing Tate family" who never sing the same songs alike twice. RELIGION STORIES Creation Legend - Thelma Boltin Gainesville; Nina Oliver Dean, Sanford. A Negro creation legend which Miss Boltin learned in her native South Carolina, resembling Roark Bradford's story in Green Pastures. NEGRO SPIRITUALS Douglas High School, Live Oak; Ebenezer Methodist Church, Live Oak, James Brown, Director. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. Climbing Jacob's Ladder. Steal Away to Jesus. Spirituals and lining hymns have never ceased to be used as the chief songs of worship in many of the Negro churches in Florida, especially in this region. While the old standbys known to spiritual singers all over the coutry are known here, there are many spirituals not often found elsewhere. These are of course, the more familiar ones. MORMON RELIGIOUS SONGS Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Jacksonville. Push Cart Song - Used along the trek. Come, Come Ye Saints - Based on the old White Spiritual "All is Well". Many of our folk songs, religious and secular, were based on British Isles tunes. This group re-enacts the trek of the followers of Brigham Young of Latter Day Saints in search for a home, which after trias and tribulations, they found in Utah. Many religious songs were made along the way to conform and give hope to the weary travelers. CONGREGTIONAL SINGING Led by Guy Hamilton, Gainesville. STEPHEN FOSTER MEMORIAL All Florida Folk Festival Ass'n. J.L. McMULLEN, President Hon. CARY A. HARDEE, Treasurer MISS HELEN BIXLER, Secretary SARAH GERTRUDE KNOTT, Festival Director SPONSORS STEHEN FOSTER MEMORIAL COMMISSION Earl W. Brown, Chairman DeLand, Florida J.A. Cawthon Orlando, Florida Mrs. Lamar Bledsoe Tallahssee, Florida Mrs. H.G. Miller Jacksonville, Florida Mrs. W.A. Saunders White Springs, Florida FLORIDA FEDERATION OF MUSIC CLUBS Mrs. J.E. Laughinghouse State President Orlando, Florida Mrs. Leon Whitehurst President, Stephen Foster Memorial Corporation Brooksville, Florida