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Sunday performances at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 14)
Subject
Singers
Guitarist
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Music performance
Guitar music
Singing
Folk singers
Tributes
Storytelling
Klezmer music
Arts, Jewish
Jewish Americans
Clarinet music
Description
One reel to reel recordings. Devine and Boltin served as emcee. Champion's tribute began on T86-146. Champion died in February 1986. Born 23 March 1938, Champion was a nationally recognized banjoist who wrote several instructional banjo manuals. In the early 1960s, he and Jim (later Gamble) Rogers were playing local clubs, along with Will McLean. He even recorded the soundtrack for the low-budget horror film 2000 Maniacs (directed by Herschel Gordon Lewis), filmed in Orlando. By the time of his death, he was a Florida Folk Festival regular, and major influence upon many Florida musicians.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Series S1576
Date
1986-05-25
Contributor
Florida Folklife Program
Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park
Florida Folk Festival
Format
sound recordings
audiotape reels
Type
Sound
Identifier
a_s1576_t86-147
Series
S1576
Item ID
T86-147
Event Name
Florida Folk Festival
Florida Folk Festival (White Springs, Fla. : 1986)
Collector or Fieldworker
Florida Folklife Program
Tradition Bearer
Rogers, James Gamble, 1937-1991
Ballew, Jim (James David), 1944-1987
Boltin, "Cousin" Thelma Ann, 1904-1992
Fitchen, Jeanie (Eugenia Sisinni), 1951-
Bronsztein, Jaime, 1940-
Devine, Dennis
Personal Name
Champion, Paul, 1938-1986
Ethnicity or Nationality
Italian American
Jewish American
Title of Work
Tribute to Paul Champion: Oklawaha Laissez-Faire (Rogers, Fitchen, Ballew, Boltin) (continued from T86-146)
Production Fisherman
Roll On, Manatee
Turtle Mound Jubilee
Where the Withlacoochee Waters Flow
Keep on the Sunny Side of Life
Two Little Boys
Klezmer music (Jaime Bronsztein) (Continued on T86-148)
Klezmer music (Jaime Bronsztein) (Continued on T86-148). 1986-05-25. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/237941>, accessed 27 December 2024.