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Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 4)

Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 4)
Date
1997-05-24
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT). Suggs served as emcee. The Tallahassee Boys Choir sang "A Man's Best Friend" for FSU football coach Bobby Bowden.
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Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 4)

Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 4)
Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7)

Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7)
Date
1997-05-24
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT). Williams served as emcee. Anderson was a popular country music performer at the time. He was originally from Apopka, Florida. Many of the songs he performed were top-ten Country Music hits in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7)

Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7)
Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 3)

Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 3)
Date
1997-05-24
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT).
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Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 3)

Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 3)
Saturday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)

Saturday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)
Date
1998-05-23
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT). Jim and Jesse were brothers from Virginia who began performing as a bluegrass-country music duo in 1945. Later they formed the Virginia Boys to back them up. Florida fiddler Vassar Clements was once a member. In the late 1950s, they played the Suwannee River Jamboree in Live Oak, a weekly country music show broadcast live on WNER. In 1959, Martha White flour became their sponsor (as they were for Flatt and Scruggs), and in 1964 became members of the Grand Old Opry. The band consisted of Jim (guitar/vocals), Jesse (mandolin/vocals), Luke McNight (mandolin; grandson of Jesse), Tom Ewing (bass), Jim Britton (banjo), and Gordon Reed (fiddle).
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Saturday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)

Saturday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)
Saturday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tapes 9-10)

Saturday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tapes 9-10)
Date
1998-05-23
Description
One audio cassette recording. Jim and Jesse were brothers from Virginia who began performing as a bluegrass-country music duo in 1945. Later they formed the Virginia Boys to back them up. Florida fiddler Vassar Clements was once a member. In the late 1950s, they played the Suwannee River Jamboree in Live Oak, a weekly country music show broadcast live on WNER. In 1959, Martha White flour became their sponsor (as they were for Flatt and Scruggs), and in 1964 became members of the Grand Ole Opry.
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Saturday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tapes 9-10)

Saturday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tapes 9-10)
Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)

Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)
Date
1999-05-29
Description
One audio cassette tape. Vassar Clements discusses his personal history and how he became involved in music. He tells a story about Johnnie Masters, discusses where and what he played in the "early days" and how he came to play with Bill Monroe. He answers questions from the audience.
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Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)

Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)
Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)

Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)
Date
1999-05-29
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT). (The second half of the tape consists of Sunday morning performances.) Dean was born in Quincy, Florida in April 1962. After a basketball scholarship to East Central Junior College (Decatur, Mississippi), Dean began toruing clubs on the Gulf Coast. He entered the music business through a series of contests, most significantly in 1988 with a winning appearance on the TV show, Star Search. Releasing several hit country music albums in the early 1990s, Dean also performed in several TV comedies and soap operas. By 1999, Dean was no longer charting in the Top Ten, but was still a popular concert performer. He released his last album (Real Men)in 1998. (He relased a "comeback" album in 2005.) Fiddler Clements played with Dean.
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Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)

Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)
Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 9)

Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 9)
Date
2000-05-27
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT). Jan Milner serves as emcee. John McEuen and Jimmy Ibbotson were members of the country-rock-bluegrass group the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, formed in 1965 and originally based out of California. McEuen replaced band member Jackson Browne in 1966. Along with the Byrds, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band helped move popular rock music into the folk and country genres. Their influential 1972 album, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," features many famous country and old-time performers, including Merle Travis, Maybelle Carter and Vassar Clements. McEuen left the band in 1987, and Ibbotson left in the 1990s. In 2000, McEuen and Ibbotson released the album "Stories and Songs."
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Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 9)

Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 9)
Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 21)

Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 21)
Date
2000-05-27
Description
One audio cassette tape. McEuen and Ibbotson were members of the country-rock-bluegrass group the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, originally based out of California and formed in 1965. McEuen replaced band member Jackson Brown in 1966. Along with the Byrds, they helped move popular rock music to into folk and country terrain. In 1972, they released the influential "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" which many early country and old time performers such as Merle Travis, Maybelle Carter, Vassar Clements, and made guitar player Doc Watson and major star. (Two sequels were, one in 1989, and the other in 2002). McEuen left the band in 1987, and Ibbotson left in the 1990s. In 1999, the two recorded the album "Stories and Songs." Here, they were joined by Clements and Vassar Carl (both from the Will the Circle Be Unbroken recording.)
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Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 21)

Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 21)
Saturday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)

Saturday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)
Date
2001-05-26
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT). Clements was a long-time bluegrass and old-time music fiddler. Over the years, he played with Bill Monroe, Jim and Jesse, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Doc Watson, and Earl Scruggs. The Rice Brothers - Tony, Larry, and Wyatt - have performed bluegrass music with each other and as solo artists since the 1970s. Part of the "New Grass" movement (which also made Clements a well-known performer), the Rice Brothers have popularized and modernized bluegrass music. Tony and Wyatt played guitar, while Larry played mandolin.
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Saturday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)

Saturday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)
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Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Stringband music
Old time music
String bands
Bluegrass music
Steel guitars
African Americans
Gospel musicians
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Cabinet officers
Florida. Dept. of State (1995-1999 : Mortham)
Secretaries of State (State governments)
Singers
Musicians
Fiddlers
Guitarist
Public officer
Secretary of State
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a_s1576_77_d97-035Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7)SoundSingers
Musicians
Guitarist
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Country music
Entertainers
Guitar music
Fiddle music
Bluegrass music
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Creek Indians
Fiddling
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a_s1576_77_d97-016Saturday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 3)SoundSingers
Fiddlers
Musicians
Storytellers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Bands (Music)
Storytelling
Stringband music
Fiddle music
String bands
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a_s1576_77_d98-015Saturday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)SoundFolk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Bluegrass music
Old time music
String bands
Stringband music
Gospel music
Country music
Gospel songs
Singers
Musicians
Bluegrass musicians
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a_s1576_73_c98-107Saturday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tapes 9-10)SoundFolk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Stringband music
String bands
Old time music
Bluegrass music
Country music
Singers
Bands (Music)
Bluegrass musicians
Musicians		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_75_c99-080Saturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 5)SoundMusicians
Fiddlers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Oral performance
Personal experience narratives
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass musicians
Storytelling
Fiddling
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a_s1576_78_d99-015aSaturday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)SoundSingers
Musicians
Guitarist
Fiddlers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Composers
Guitarists
Country music
Popular songs		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_84_d00-019Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 9)SoundSingers
Musicians
Guitarist
Fiddlers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Country music
Popular songs
Old time music
Patriotic songs
Bluegrass music
Stringband music
Fiddle music
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a_s1576_82_c00-042Saturday performances at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 21)SoundSingers
Musicians
Guitarist
Fiddlers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Old time music
Bluegrass music
Stringband music
Country music		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_88_d01-015Saturday performances at the 2001 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 8)SoundFolk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Old time music
Fiddle music
String bands
Stringband music
Mandolin music
Bluegrass music
Singers
Musicians
Guitarist
Fiddlers
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