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Don Grooms and Friends performing at the 1988 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)
Subject
Singers
Musicians
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Folk singers
Stringband music
Description
One reel to reel recording. Fitchen served as emcee. The group consisted of Grooms (guitar/vocals); Devine (guitar); Jemison (bass); Dinella (guitar); Wangerman (mandolin); Naumann (auotharp); Martin (fiddle) and McLean (harmonica). Reel to reel ends with first two selections from Gamble Rogers' performance.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Series S1576
Date
1988-05-29
Contributor
Florida Folklife Program
Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park
Florida Folk Festival
Format
sound recordings
audiotape reels
Type
Sound
Identifier
a_s1576_t88-055b
Series
S1576
Item ID
T88-55
T88-56
Event Name
Florida Folk Festival
Florida Folk Festival (White Springs, Fla. : 1988)
Collector or Fieldworker
Florida Folklife Program
Tradition Bearer
Grooms, Don, 1930-1998
Martin, Wayne
McLean, Will, 1919-1990
Devine, Dennis
Dinella, Mary Ann
Wangerman, T. J.
Naumann, Sharon
Jemison, Sandra
Rogers, James Gamble, 1937-1991
Personal Name
Fitchen, Eugenia (Jeanie) Sisinni, 1951-
Title of Work
Cold North Wind (T88-55)
He Was the World to Me
Sugar Babe
Tomorrow Is Gonna Be a Better Day (T88-56)
Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia
Walk Proud My Son
Keep a Good Heart
Orange Blossom Special Does Not Stop in Waldo Anymore