Bob and Evelyn Beers performing at the Florida Folk Festival

Folk festivals

Folklore revival festivals

Singing

Performing arts

Violin

Puppeteers

Puppets

Musicians

Singers

Twenty-three black and white prints. Images of the Beers Family Singers (Bob, Evelyn, and Martha Beers) at various Florida Folk Festivals. Popular on the folk circuit in the 1960s, the Beers were sent in 1968 by the U.S. Dept. of State on a tour on India, and once played for the White House in 1969. In 1966, they also began the popular Fox Hollow Festival in upstate New York. In 1972, Bob Beers died in a car crash. His daughter still performs as Martha Nagler, and Evelyn continued performing at Florida Folk Festivals well into the 1970s. In addition to music, Evelyn would often perform puppet shows at the festivals. The files also contain substantial correspondence and promotional materials for the Beers.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1578

1962

Florida Folk Festival

photographs

Still Image

S1578

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Florida Folk Festival

Florida Folklife Program

Beers, Bob (Robert Boyd), 1920-1972

Beers-Burnstine, Evelyne Christine, 1925-2009

Beers Family Singers

Beers, Martha

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