Title
Friday morning performances at the 1969 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage)
Subject
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Singing
Guitar music
Dance
Old time music
African Americans
Bluegrass music
Folk singers
Elementary schools
Mayors
Jump rope rhymes
Singers
Dancers
Public officer
Orators
Children
Choruses
Musicians
Students
Description
One reel to reel recording. Boltin served as emcee. (The second half of the reel consists of Friday afternoon performances -- see separate entry for details.) Saunders was the chairman of the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission. Meadows was White Springs' mayor. Housewright was the Dean of Music for Florida State University. Shore was from Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation. Knott was the festival's first director. The Caney Forkers were based out of Cookeville, Tennessee. The Wiggins (Velma and daughter Hallie) lived in Bradenton. For You Are My Sunshine, they played the musical bottlephone. Hall lived in Sarasota, and sang mountain ballads.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Series S1576
Contributor
Florida Folk Festival
Stephen Foster Center
Identifier
a_s1576_t77-208a