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Florida Folk Festival Live

Florida Folk Festival Live
Date
1998
Description
This is a promotional video for the Florida Folk Festival. Footage includes musicians John Anderson, Rock Bottom, Vassar Clements, Sam Pacetti, Marie Nofsinger, Wayne Martin, Vassar Clements, Diamond Teeth Mary, Del Suggs, Tomas Granado, Angela Patua, Onabamiero Osunlade Ogunleye, Lilian Nerette Louis, 21st Century Steel Band, Eddie Keeney, Chief Jim Billie and other musicians.
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Florida Folk Festival Live

Florida Folk Festival Live
Folklife People: Vassar Clements

Folklife People: Vassar Clements
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Vassar Clements was tagged with the nickname "The Kissimmee Kid" after the town in which he was raised and first took up the fiddle at the age of seven. By his teens he had formed a string band with his cousins Red and Gerald. They became a staple on local radio stations and by age 14 Clements had drawn the attention of bluegrass legend Bill Monroe. Vassar spent seven years with Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys before leaving in 1957 to join Jim & Jesse McReynolds who were then based in Live Oak, Florida. Throughout his life Vassar pursued an interest in many forms of music eventually melding country and bluegrass with jazz and swing to form his own unique style, Hillbilly Jazz. It was this diversity and musical curiosity that landed him a spot on The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Will the Circle Be Unbroken album, exposing his talent to a wider and younger audience. Vassar was soon in demand as a studio musician, eventually appearing on over 2000 recordings from artists as wide ranging as Stephane Grappelli, The Monkees, and The Grateful Dead.
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Folklife People: Vassar Clements

Folklife People: Vassar Clements
Friday evening performances at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3)

Friday evening performances at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3)
Date
1966-05-06
Description
One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. The second half of the reel consists of Saturday morning performances (see separate entry for description of that half of the reel.) Banjoist Cox was from Grand Haven, Michigan. Banjoist Taylor was from Milledgeville, Georgia, and played with The Folk Swingers. He later played with Vassar Clements and John Hartford.
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Friday evening performances at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3)

Friday evening performances at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3)
Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 6)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 6)
Date
1998-05-22
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT).
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Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 6)

Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 6)
Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 4)
Date
1999-05-28
Description
One digital audio tape (DAT).
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Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 4)

Friday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 4)
Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 3)

Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 3)
Date
2003-05-23
Description
One compact disc. Williams served as emcee. Wisecracker played guitar and banjo. The Walking Catfish consisted of Sonny Edwards on guitar and Mike Polacki on harmonica. Wisecracker, who called herself "Miami's Mother Folker," was from South Florida. For years, she led the folk spoof band, Jabberwocky. She has also played with John Hartford, Vassar Clements, and John McCutcheon.
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Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 3)

Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Disc 3)
Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)

Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)
Date
2003-05-23
Description
One compact disc. Van Oss served as emcee. Wisecracker played guitar and banjo. The Walking Catfish consisted of Sonny Edwards on guitar and Mike Polacki on harmonica. Wisecracker, who called herself "Miami's Mother Folker," was from South Florida. For years, she led the folk spoof band, Jabberwocky. She has also played with John Hartford, Vassar Clements, and John McCutcheon.
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Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)

Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)
Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)

Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)
Date
2003-05-23
Description
One compact disc. Hunter served as emcee. Wisecracker played guitar and banjo. The Walking Catfish consisted of Sonny Edwards on guitar and Mike Polacki on harmonica. Wisecracker, who called herself "Miami's Mother Folker," was from South Florida. For years, she led the folk spoof band, Jabberwocky. She has also played with John Hartford, Vassar Clements, and John McCutcheon.
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Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)

Friday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)
Friday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 6)

Friday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 6)
Date
2006-05-26
Description
One compact disc. Goldfinger served as emcee. Sonny Edwards played guitar for Wisecracker. Wisecracker, who called herself "Miami's Mother Folker," was from South Florida. For years, she led the folk spoof band, Jabberwocky. She has also played with John Hartford, Vassar Clements, and John McCutcheon.
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Friday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 6)

Friday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 6)
Norman & Nancy Blake performance at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival Amphitheater

Norman & Nancy Blake performance at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival Amphitheater
Date
2003-05-24
Description
One compact disc. Fitchen served as emcee. Blake was a renowned bluegrass and recording session musician. Raised in Sulphur Springs, Georgia, he began his career in the 1950s. By the 1960s, he played in June carter Cash's road band, performed on Johnny Cash's "Orange Blossom Special" and Bob Dylan's "Nashville Skyline" albums. He became well-known for the seminal "Will the Circle be Unbroken" LP, also featuring Doc Watson, Roy Acuff, Vassar Clements, Earl Scruggs, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. More recently, he played on the "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack. His wife Nancy was a cellist with folk leanings. They met in the early 1970s when she performed in his opening act. They married in 1975.
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Norman & Nancy Blake performance at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival Amphitheater

Norman & Nancy Blake performance at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival Amphitheater
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a_s1576_77_d98-006Friday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 6)SoundSingers
Musicians
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Fiddlers
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Fiddle music
Guitar music
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Guitarist
Pianists
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Stringband music
String bands
Old time music
Guitar music
Cowboys
Country music
Fiddle music
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Guitarist
Musicians
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Folk singers
Guitar music
Banjo music
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a_s2034_04_cd03-039aFriday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 13)SoundSingers
Musicians
Guitarist
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Folk singers
Guitar music
Banjo music
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Musicians
Guitarist
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Folk singers
Guitar music
Banjo music
Banjoists		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2034_05_cd06-031Friday performances at the 2006 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Disc 6)SoundSingers
Musicians
Guitarist
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Folk singers
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Norman & Nancy Blake performance at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival AmphitheaterNorman & Nancy Blake performance at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival AmphitheatersoundGuitarist
Musicians
Singers
Bluegrass musicians
Folk festivals
Florida Folk Festival
Music -- Performance
Old time music
String band music
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