Title
Sunday performances at the 1979 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 2)
Subject
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Old time music
String bands
Stringband music
African Americans
Guitar music
Blues (Music)
Blues singers
Gospel music
Gospel (Black)
Gospel songs
Religious songs
Harmonica music
Singers
Guitarist
Musicians
Bands (Music)
Harmonica players
Description
One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. The New Sand Mountain Wildcats was from Lutz; they consisted of Ernie Williams, Rob Levine (psychology professor), Shellie Yeager, Daralyn Caudill (teacher), and Bill Dudley (a FM disc jockey). Kloiber, at the time a law student at the University of Virginia, was from West Palm Beach; Gerard, a speech graduate student at the University of Tampa, was from Lake City. They met and began playing traditional folk music while students at Florida State University. Blues singer Brown was from St. Petersburg. George and Marilyn Heaps-Nelson were from Swainsboro, Georgia. Bonk was from Atlanta, Georgia.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Series S1576
Contributor
Florida Folklife Program
Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park
Florida Folk Festival
Identifier
a_s1576_t83-102