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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramAubrey Ghent playing his steel guitar - Fort Pierce, Florida
Image Number
FA2321
Photographer
Stone, Robert L., 1944-
Date
1993 (circa)
Rights
Collection
Folklife Collection.
Series 1640, Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, Willie David Jones, Fiddling, 1993-1994 ; Box 16, FF1
Series 1640, Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, Willie David Jones, Fiddling, 1993-1994 ; Box 16, FF1
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Gospel music
African Americans--Music
Gospel (Black)
Religious music
Musical traditions, Sacred
Ethnicity, African American
Ethnicity, African diaspora
Popular music
Songs
Electric guitar music
Musical instruments
Stringed instruments
Guitar
Electronic musical instruments
African American guitarists
Instrumentalists
Gospel musicians
African American entertainers--Florida--Saint Lucie County--Fort Pierce
African American musicians--Florida--Saint Lucie County--Fort Pierce
African American men--Florida--Saint Lucie County--Fort Pierce
Electric guitar
African Americans--Music
Gospel (Black)
Religious music
Musical traditions, Sacred
Ethnicity, African American
Ethnicity, African diaspora
Popular music
Songs
Electric guitar music
Musical instruments
Stringed instruments
Guitar
Electronic musical instruments
African American guitarists
Instrumentalists
Gospel musicians
African American entertainers--Florida--Saint Lucie County--Fort Pierce
African American musicians--Florida--Saint Lucie County--Fort Pierce
African American men--Florida--Saint Lucie County--Fort Pierce
Electric guitar
Personal Subjects
Physical Description
1 slide - col.
General Note
Aubrey Ghent has played gospel music on the electric steel guitar since age nine. For many years his father Henry Nelson was the steel guitarist at the House of God church in Ocala where Ghent is now pastor. Ghent's steel guitar is a simple six-string lap guitar tuned to a major chord.
Aubrey Ghent playing his steel guitar - Fort Pierce, Florida
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