| FS7781 | Jean Ritchie playing an autoharp - White Springs, Florida | | Musical traditions, Anglo-American
Autoharp
Plucked instruments
Instrumentalists
Performances (Entertainment events)
Zither
Musical instruments
Music--Performance
Folk music
Material culture--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Concerts--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Folk musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Women folk musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Women musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Arts (Performing)--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs | /fpc/folklife/fs7781.gif |
| FS7784 | Jean Ritchie playing an autoharp while the crowd listens - White Springs, Florida | | Autoharp
Musical traditions, Anglo-American
Plucked instruments
Instrumentalists
Performances (Entertainment events)
Zither
Musical instruments
Music--Performance
Folk music
Audiences
Material culture--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Arts (Performing)--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Folk musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Women folk musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Women musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Concerts--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs | /fpc/folklife/fs7784.gif |
| FS7783 | Jean Ritchie playing an autoharp while the crowd listens - White Springs, Florida | | Musical traditions, Anglo-American
Autoharp
Plucked instruments
Instrumentalists
Performances (Entertainment events)
Zither
Musical instruments
Music--Performance
Folk music
Audiences
Material culture--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Arts (Performing)--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Folk musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Women folk musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Women musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Concerts--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs | /fpc/folklife/fs7783.gif |
| FS7782 | Jean Ritchie playing an autoharp while the crowd listens - White Springs, Florida | | Musical traditions, Anglo-American
Autoharp
Plucked instruments
Instrumentalists
Performances (Entertainment events)
Zither
Musical instruments
Music--Performance
Folk music
Audiences
Material culture--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Arts (Performing)--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Folk musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Women folk musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Women musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Concerts--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs | /fpc/folklife/fs7782.gif |
| FS7791 | Jean Ritchie singing - White Springs, Florida | | Musical traditions, Anglo-American
Singing
Performances (Entertainment events)
Music--Performance
Folk music
Material culture--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Concerts--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Arts (Performing)--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Folk musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Women singers--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Women folk musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Women musicians--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs
Singers--Florida--Hamilton County--White Springs | /fpc/folklife/fs7791.gif |
| More Music from the Florida Folklife Collection | More Music from the Florida Folklife Collection | Sound | | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/cd2.gif |
More Music from the Florida Folklife Collection
- Date
- Description
- This CD features selections from well-known artists such as Don Grooms, Etta Baker, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, and Jean Ritchie.
Download the disc as a ZIP file containing 320kBps MP3s.
Contact the State Archives of Florida to request a complimentary CD.
Liner Notes
1. Give A Poor Dog A Bone - Mary Smith McLain (download)
With Willie James and friends.
Recorded: May 28, 1993 (Florida Folklife Program)
1993 Florida Folk Festival
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, tape D93-6)
2. Somewhere to Lay My Head - Williams Singers (download)
Recorded: May 27, 1988 (Florida Folklife Program)
1988 Florida Folk Festival
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, reel T88-16)
3. I Believe - Don Grooms (download)
Recorded: May 28, 1995 by Nancy Buchanan (Florida Folklife Program)
1995 Florida Folk Festival
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, tape D95-36)
4. Butter Beans - Thelma Boltin and Tom Walton (download)
Recorded: May 24, 1985 (Florida Folklife Program)
1985 Florida Folk Festival
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, reel T85-1)
5. Lotus - Ann Yao (download)
Recorded: May 22, 1992 (Florida Folklife Program)
1992 Florida Folk Festival
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, reel T92-7)
6. Cuckoo Bird - Doc Watson and Merle Watson (download)
Recorded: April 30, 1977 (Florida Folklife Program)
Performance at the Stephen Foster Center
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, reel T77-281)
7. One Dime Blues - Etta Baker (download)
Recorded: May 28, 1994 (Florida Folklife Program)
1994 Florida Folk Festival
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, tape D94-28)
8. Vietnamese Folk Song - Pham Duy (download)
Recorded: May 6, 1966 (Stephen Foster Center)
1966 Florida Folk Festival
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, reel T77-158)
9. The Water is Wide - The Beers Family (download)
Recorded: May 4, 1963 (Stephen Foster Center)
1963 Annual Florida Folk Festival
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, reel T77-143)
10.Kimballs' Rachael - Amy Cox with apprentice Bob Murphy (download)
Her father, Gerry Cox, accompanied on guitar.
Recorded: May 24, 1991 (Florida Folklife Program)
1991 Florida Folk Festival
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, reel T91-14)
11. We Are Going to Paint the Town - The Stanley Brothers (download)
Recorded: 1985 from c.1958 radio transcription recording (Florida Folklife Program)
Performance on the Suwannee River Jamboree radio program, WNER
Live Oak, Florida
(S 1576, reel T85-66)
12. Kind Hearted Woman - Johnny Shines (download)
Recorded: April 16, 1977 (Florida Folklife Program)
Portable Folk Festival
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, reel T77-277)
13. Cruel Mother - Jeanie Fitchen (download)
Recorded: May 22, 1992 (Florida Folklife Program)
1992 Florida Folk Festival
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, reel T92-67)
14. Back in the Saddle Again - Jim Bob Tinsley (download)
Recorded: March 9, 1984 by Nancy Nusz (Florida Folklife Program)
Performance at the Ocala Public Library
Library Folklife Program
Ocala, Florida
(S 1576, tape C84-10)
15. Wellington's Reel - James Kelly (download)
With George Phillips on guitar.
Recorded: May 22, 1992 (Florida Folklife Program)
1992 Florida Folk Festival
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, reel T92-67)
16. Nottamun Town - Jean Ritchie (download)
Recorded: 1976 (Florida Folklife Program)
Performance at the Stephen Foster Center
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, reel T77-262)
17. I Prayed Until I Found the Lord - Richard Williams, Lillie Williams, & Ella Mae Wilson (download)
Recorded: March 16, 1980 by Dwight Devane (Florida Folklife Program)
Performance at Richard William's home
Florida Record Project
Newberry, Florida
(S1576, reel T83-65)
18. Wayfaring Stranger - Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys (download)
Recorded: May 29, 1993 (Florida Folklife Program)
Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage)
White Springs, Florida
(S 1576, tape D93-25)
- Collection
| a_s1576_t78-301 | Recordings of the Florida Folk Arts Conference | Sound | Special events
Academic disciplines
Folklife
Folklore
Meetings
Forums (Discussion and debate)
Historians
Teaching of folklore
Conferences and seminars series
Historian
Educators
Public officer
Arts administrators
Ethnomusicologists
Anthropologists
Authors
Folklorists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recordings of the Florida Folk Arts Conference
- Date
- 1978-01-14
- Description
- Nine reel to reel recordings. Hosted by the Florida Folklife Program at the Stephen Foster Center (SFC), the conference included folklorists and historians from the Library of Congress (LOC), Smithsonian Institute (SI), University of Florida, as well as throughout Florida and the South. T78-301: John Roberts, director of the Stephen Foster Center makes opening remarks, along with Norman and Bulger. Session on the History of Florida Folklife by Bulger, Dr. Alton Morris, Dr. Ralph Boggs, and Florida Folk Festival director Thelma Boltin. T78-302: Boltin presentation continued. Plus answer and questions of the session. Session on Current Florida Folklife Program with Dr. Proctor talking on the Oral History Program at the University of Florida. T78-303: Questions for Proctor. Session continues with Dale Olsen talking about Florida ethnomusicology studies, and Bulger on the Florida Folklife Program. T78-304: Bulger continues. Session on the National and Regional centers of folklife with Georganne Fletcher from the Southern Federation of State Arts Agencies; Jabbour from the American Folklife Center; Blackman from Agrirama; and Yerkovich from the NEA. T78-305: Yerkovich continues. Session of Folklore and the Media with Charles Brown of the Folk Arts Media Project of the Charleston Communication Center; and George Reynolds, author of Foxfire. T78-306: Reynolds continues. Bill Ferris speaks on the Center of Southern Folklore. Shows film entitled Four Women Artists. T78-307: Session on Collecting folklife with Ralph Rinzler on the American Folklife Festival; and R. Thomas King on the Florida State Museum. T78-308: King continues. Theodore Grame on the Study Center for American Musicl Pluralism. T78-309: Session on presenting folklife with Pat Waterman on the Applied Anthropology Program at USF; Charles Hall on Agrirama; and Thomson on the Southern Folklore Quarterly. Final session on recommendations, led by Flemming and Bulger. Three concerts were presented in connection with the conference: The McClain Family on 15 January at the Stephen Foster Center (see T78-310); and Jean Ritchie, Alan Jabour, and the Bucksnort Barndance Band at the Lake City American Legion Hall on 14 January (see T78-311 through T78-313); and Jean Ritchie at the Stephen Foster Center on 16 January 1978 (T78-313 and T78-314.) For images from the conference, see S 1577, box 16, folder 33. For a film of the conference, see S 1615, video V-192.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t79-001 | Recordings of the Fox Hollow Folk Festival | Sound | Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Performances
Music performance
Oral performance
Storytelling
Seminole Indians
Dulcimer music
Bagpipe music
Old time music | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Recordings of the Fox Hollow Folk Festival
- Date
- 1960
- Description
- Three reel to reels. The Beers Family began the Fox Hollow Folk Festival in 1966, which was held annually in Petersburgh, New York until 1980. Both Boltin and Ritchie played the first year -- and these undated recordings might be from that year. In 1972, Bob Beers died in a car accident in Vermont. NOTE: commercial recordings by Win Stracke and other unidentified performers have been redacted due to copyright restrictions.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t78-311 | Suwannee Soiree at the Florida Folk Arts Conference | Sound | Special events
Conferences and seminars series
Concerts
Music performance
Performing arts
Singing
Bluegrass music
Old time music
String bands
Stringband music
Gospel music
Flute music
Dulcimer music
Square dancing
Dance music
Singers
Fiddlers
Bands (Music)
Flute players
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Suwannee Soiree at the Florida Folk Arts Conference
- Date
- 1978-01-14
- Description
- Three reel to reel recordings. A concert and dance hosted by the Florida Folklife Program at the American Legion Center in Lake City as part of the Florida Folk Arts Conference that included folklorists and historians from the Library of Congress (LOC), Smithsonian Institute (SI), University of Florida, as well as throughout Florida and the South. Featured famed Appalachian dulcimer player Ritchie, the string band Bucksnort Barndance Band performing square dance tunes, flutist (and scholar) Olsen, and fiddler (and folklorist) Rinzler. Recordings of the rest of conference can be found on T78-301 through T78-310 and T78-314.
- Collection
Listen: The Assorted Selections Program
