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Sunday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 5)

Date: 2001-05-27
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT). Green-Townshend served as emcee.
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Sunday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 5)

Sunday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 12)

Date: 2001-05-27
Description: One audio cassette tape. Webb served as emcee.
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Sunday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 12)

Sunday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)

Date: 2004-05-30
Description: One compact disc. Mindy Simmons was the emcee. Crider performed with John Hedgecoth (banjo), Chris Henry (mandolin), Red Henry (fiddle), and Jim Walsh (flute).
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Sunday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)

Sunday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 3)

Date: 2006-05-28
Description: One compact disc. Green-Townsend served as emcee. Crider's back-up band consisted of Red Henry (mandolin, fiddle), Barbara Johnson (bass), John Hitchcock (banjo), James Walsh (flute), Chris Henry (mandolin), and Heidi Walsh (djembe).
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Sunday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 3)

The Florida Wildlife Boys country quintet performing during the annual Coon Hunt Hootenanny at Daytona Beach.

Date: 1966
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The Florida Wildlife Boys country quintet performing during the annual Coon Hunt Hootenanny at Daytona Beach.

Unidentified men herd geese into a pen

Date: 1900 (circa)
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Unidentified men herd geese into a pen

Waterfowl biologist Dale Crider working with birds.

Date: 1965-10-18
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Waterfowl biologist Dale Crider working with birds.

Wildlife Night in Fort Myers - Dale and Linda Crider

Date: 1984-04-13
Description: One audiocassette. Recording of "Wildlife Night in Fort Myers" at the Southwest Florida Audubon Banquet. This event was a live musical slide presentation, hosted by Dale and Linda Crider. The program was produced by Dale Crider, folk artist and then endangered species education officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. This was a Project WILD presentation, an interdisciplinary conservation and environmental education program brought to Florida by Dale Crider in the early 1980s. Songs featured include "Loxahatchee", "The Wilderness", Under the Southern Bald Eagle", "Gospel Snakes", "What Will the Wood Ducks Do?", "Last Screams of Panther", "Mangrove Buccaneer", and "Oh, to be Wild". Between songs, the Criders speak about their songs, their inspirations, Project WILD, and wildlife conservation in Florida.
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Wildlife Night in Fort Myers - Dale and Linda Crider

Will McLean Memorial Service

Date: 1990-01-24
Description: One video recording (35 minutes, VHS). Memorial Service for singer-songwriter Will McLean, held at the Thomas Center in Gainesville. Includes eulogies and memories by Florida Folk Festival director Thelma, Boltin,singer-songwriter Don Grooms, an emotional Seminole chairman and singer James (Jim) Billie, singer-protégé Gamble Rogers, Barbara Sheen Todd, singer-environmental activist Dale Crider, and Cherill Heaton. Plus performances McLean's songs by Jeanie Fitchen (on autoharp), Dougs Gauss, Wayne Martin, Frank Thomas, Don Grooms, Dennis Devine, Mary Ann Dinella, Sandra Jamieson, Ernie Williams, and Barbara Sheen Todd (who sings his first song). These are interspersed with scenes from a 1982 PBS special on McLean, and concludes with audio from McLean's last performance (St. Augustine, October 29, 1989). Many other folk artists are visible in the audience, including Bobby Hicks. Produced by Margaret Longhill and Philip Schwartz for the McLean Foundation. Singer-songwriter Will McLean was often called the 'Father of Florida Folk.' The Black Hat Troubadour, a nickname given for the hat he usually wore, authored hundreds of songs, and was a national figure on the folk music scene. A fifth generation Floridian, he died in 1990 from cancer.
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Will McLean Memorial Service

Will McLean Memorial Tribute at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Date: 1991-05-26
Description: Two reel to reel recordings. Rogers served as emcee. Singer-songwriter Will McLean was often called the 'Father of Florida Folk.' The Black Hat Troubadour, a nickname for the hat he usually wore, authored over 3500 songs, and was a national figure on the folk music scene. A fifth generation Floridian, he died in 1990 from cancer, the year after he won the Florida Folk Heritage award. In 1996, he was inducted in the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Images from the tribute can be found in S 1577, v. 60, slides S92-592 through S92-634. A video of the tribute can be found in S 1615, video FV-58.
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Will McLean Memorial Tribute at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

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Sunday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 5)

Sunday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 5)

Sunday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 12)

Sunday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 12)

Sunday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)

Sunday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)

Sunday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 3)

Sunday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 3)

The Florida Wildlife Boys country quintet performing during the annual Coon Hunt Hootenanny at Daytona Beach.

The Florida Wildlife Boys country quintet performing during the annual Coon Hunt Hootenanny at Daytona Beach.

Unidentified men herd geese into a pen

Unidentified men herd geese into a pen

Waterfowl biologist Dale Crider working with birds.

Waterfowl biologist Dale Crider working with birds.

Wildlife Night in Fort Myers - Dale and Linda Crider

Wildlife Night in Fort Myers - Dale and Linda Crider

Will McLean Memorial Service

Will McLean Memorial Service

Will McLean Memorial Tribute at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Will McLean Memorial Tribute at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

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Sunday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 5)

Sunday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 5)

Sunday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 12)

Sunday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 12)

Sunday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)

Sunday performances at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)

Sunday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 3)

Sunday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 3)

The Florida Wildlife Boys country quintet performing during the annual Coon Hunt Hootenanny at Daytona Beach.

The Florida Wildlife Boys country quintet performing during the annual Coon Hunt Hootenanny at Daytona Beach.

Unidentified men herd geese into a pen

Unidentified men herd geese into a pen

Waterfowl biologist Dale Crider working with birds.

Waterfowl biologist Dale Crider working with birds.

Wildlife Night in Fort Myers - Dale and Linda Crider

Wildlife Night in Fort Myers - Dale and Linda Crider

Will McLean Memorial Service

Will McLean Memorial Service

Will McLean Memorial Tribute at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)

Will McLean Memorial Tribute at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival (Main stage)