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Saturday morning performances at the 1978 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Reel 3)
Subject
Singers
Storytellers
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Singing
Dulcimer music
Old time music
Storytelling
Cowboys
Oral narratives
Musicians
Description
One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. At the time Evelyn lived in Petersburg, New York. Popular on the folk circuit in the 1960s, she performed with late husband Bob (and later daughter Martha)as the popular folk act, the Beers Family. They 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. Roth played the dulcimer. Storyteller Frog Smith was from Fort Myers.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Series S1576
Date
1978-05-27
Contributor
Florida Folklife Program
Stephen Foster Center
Florida Folk Festival
Format
sound recordings
audiotape reels
Type
Sound
Identifier
a_s1576_t80-007
Series
S1576
Item ID
T80-7
Event Name
Florida Folk Festival
Florida Folk Festival (White Springs, Fla. : 1978)
Collector or Fieldworker
Florida Folklife Program
Tradition Bearer
Beers-Burnstine, Evelyne Christine, 1925-2009
Roth, Kevin
Smith, "Frog" (Ernest Archer), 1896-1993
Williams, Ernie
Boltin, "Cousin" Thelma Ann, 1904-1992
Title of Work
Joke (incomplete) (Ernie Williams)
Wild Mountain Thyme (Evelyn Beers-Burstine)
Mountains High
Soldiers Joy
Kitty Alone
The Gentleness in Living
Dance demonstration (Mebane Middle School Jumpers of Alachua)