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Monday evening performances at the 1955 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2)
Subject
Musicians
Musical groups
Bands (Music)
Fiddlers
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Performing arts
African Americans
Gospel (Black)
Singers
Singing
Gospel music
A capella singers
A capella singing
Gospel songs
Hawaiian guitar
Spirituals (Songs)
String bands
Barbershop singing
Barbershop quartets
Students
Description
One reel to reel. Boltin served as the emcee. See the festival program in S 1619, box 1 for more detailed information of the festival performers and activities not recorded.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Series S1576
Date
1955-05-02
Contributor
Florida Folk Festival
Stephen Foster Center
Format
sound recordings
audiotape reels
Type
Sound
Identifier
a_s1576_t77-023
Series
S1576
Item ID
T77-23
Event Name
Florida Folk Festival
Florida Folk Festival (White Springs, Fla. : 1955)
Collector or Fieldworker
Barnes, Foster, 1903-1972
Stephen Foster Center
Tradition Bearer
Boltin, "Cousin" Thelma Ann, 1904-1992
Stanton High School (Jacksonville, Fla.)
Fogel, Verena
Lono, Wally
Wally Lonos Hawaiian String Band
Stephens, Zeke, 1895-1984
Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America
Title of Work
Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Stanton High School)
I am Going to Lay Down This Heavy Load
Old Black Joe
Dixie
My Lindy lou
Colored Folks Work On the Mississippi
Old Man River
Song of the Islands (Fogel/Lono and His Hawaiian String Band)
I Want to Go back To My Little Grass Shack
Yankee Doodle (Stephens)
Dixie
Froggie Went a Courting
Turkey in the Straw
Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby (Society for the Preservation)
Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby (Society for the Preservation). 1955-05-02. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/234083>, accessed 5 January 2025.