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Friday performances at the 1987 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 14)
Subject
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
String bands
Stringband music
Old time music
Arts, Greek
Greek Americans
Songs, Greek
Bouzouki
Musicians
Apprentices
Bands (Music)
Singers
Description
One reel to reel recording. Williams and Boltin served as emcee. The Culbreath Family Band was from Cortez, Florida. Folklorist Roller introduced Skordilis and his apprentice Gonatos, both of whom were from Tarpon Springs.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Series S1576
Date
1987-05-22
Contributor
Florida Folklife Program
Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park
Florida Folk Festival
Format
sound recordings
audiotape reels
Type
Sound
Identifier
a_s1576_t87-015
Series
S1576
Item ID
T87-15
Event Name
Florida Folk Festival
Florida Folk Festival (White Springs, Fla. : 1987)
Collector or Fieldworker
Florida Folklife Program
Tradition Bearer
Culbreath Family Band
Skordilis, Spiros, 1930-2013
Gonatos, Emanuel
Fitchen, Jeanie (Eugenia Sisinni), 1951-
Boltin, "Cousin" Thelma Ann, 1904-1992
Roller, Peter
Ethnicity or Nationality
Greek American
Title of Work
Orange Blossom Special (Culbreath Family Band) (continued from T87-14)
Down Yonder
Billy in the Low Ground
Back Up and Push
Spanish Fandango
Unidentified song (Spiros Skordilis & Emanuel Gonatos)