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Featured Artist

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Artist: Monica Rios

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Monica Rios is an award winning self-taught artist of Puerto Rican descent, and has lived in Florida for over 45 years. Rios has exhibited her work for over 25 years, from Montreal, Canada, to the US Virgin Islands. Rios has taken on both public and private commissions. Rios painted one of the life- sized fiberglass dolphins for the "Dolphin Splash!" public art exhibit in Panama City, FL, commissioned by the Bay County Public Library. The dolphin was on display in the library, and purchased a second time by a private collector. Rios'work has been published numerous times, including cover art for the Berkeley Psychic Reader in Berkeley, CA, Rios was voted into the "Best of Tallahassee" issue of Break Magazine by their write-in readers' poll.

Rios'work is dream-inspired, and uses imagery from Florida, travels, adventures in nature, and comes from a spiritual connection to her ancestral roots. www.MonicaRios.com

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Thank You

To our 72nd Annual Florida Folk Festival Sponsors

Dr. Paul Sullivan

Jim & Sally Moses

Ralph & Debra Reid

Pam Hyde

Bebe Willis

David & Christine Moor

2024 Angels

In Memory of Barbara Beauchamp

Howard & Carolyn Pardue

Theodore & Gertrude Winsberg

SE Environmental Geology

The Bullard Family

Suwannee Bicycle Association

Danny Hales

Sheila Hiss

Richard Feezel

Audrey Bullard

Walter & Merri McKenzie

Dudley & Gail Matthews

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Along the banks of the historic Suwannee River in White Springs, Florida, folk artists have gathered to celebrate Florida’s land, people, and diverse cultural heritage. Since its humble beginning in 1953, the Florida Folk Festival has not only grown to become Florida’s most prestigious affair, but also named “Florida’s Best Cultural Event.” The festival has recently been recognized by the Southeast Tourism Society as a “Top 20 Event” in the southeastern United States. Get ready for a fun and entertaining weekend for the entire family! Our feature performers are listed below with the evening of their amphitheater performance. Many will be performing or teaching workshops some other time throughout the weekend along with our special guest artists. You can even dance the night away each evening with a variety of dances; and don’t miss dancing with Papaloko & Loray Mistik Sunday evening on the Heritage and Dance Stage. Check out our full schedule of events for specific times and stages.

The

Lee Boys (Friday Evening)

The Lee Boys are one of America’s finest African-American sacred steel ensembles. This family group consists of three brothers, Alvin Lee (guitar), Derrick Lee and Keith Lee (vocals) along with their three nephews, Roosevelt Collier (pedal steel guitar), Alvin Cordy, Jr. (7-string bass) and Earl Walker (drums). Each member began making music at the ages of 7 and 8 in the House of God church they attended in Perrine, FL. Born and raised in Miami, each of The Lee Boys grew up in the church where their father and grandfather, Rev. Robert E. Lee, was the pastor and a steel player himself.

“Sacred steel” is a type of music described as an inspired, unique form of Gospel music with a hard-driving, bluesbased beat. The musical genre is rooted in Gospel, but infused with rhythm and blues, jazz, rock, funk, hip-hop, country and ideas from other nations. Influenced by the Hawaiian steel guitar fad of the 1930’s, brothers Willie and Troman Eason brought the electric lap steel guitar into the worship services of the House of God church in Jacksonville, FL. The Pentecostal congregation embraced the soulful sound, and over time this unique sound became the hallmark of the church. The Lee Boys are part

of the fourth generation of musicians in this faith.

When The Lee Boys bring their joyous spiritual sound to the stage, audiences instantly recognize that this is not “sitting and listening” music: dancing, shouting out, and having fun are considered essential parts of their tradition. Founder and bandleader Alvin Lee explains, “the inspiration and feeling that comes along with our music is the reason that people feel good. It is like the new music on the block and it’s just getting ready to explode!” It’s mostly original material, with a few standards and hymns the group “blueses up a little.” In 2008-09 alone they performed for more than 250,000 music fans at festivals throughout the United States. In the process, their unique sound has attracted musical artists such as Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band, The Black Crowes, Los Lobos, Gov’t Mule, Umphrey’s McGee, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk and The Travelin’ McCourys- all of whom have played with the Lee Boys and/or invited them to tour with them.

They’ve performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and will continue influencing audiences worldwide with their “sacred steel”. Their tour calendar includes over 100 major festival performances, including headline stops at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Memphis in May, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, MerleFest, DelFest, Wanee and All Good Festival. In December 2008, the band debuted on national television with a rousing performance on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien that had the host jumping out of his chair and raving about the band.

The Lee Boys have been in the studio with The Travelin’ McCourys have completed a joint album entitled “Meetin’ In The Middle” which illustrates their amazing bluegrass/sacred steel festival shows and adds to their growing discography.

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Walter Parks

(Saturday Evening)

In 2020 Walter Parks was invited by The Library of Congress to archive his research on and perform his arrangements of music made by the homesteaders of the headwaters of the Suwannee River – The Okefenokee Swamp. The hollers, hymns and reels of those hardy southeast Georgia homesteaders are featured in his one man show “Swamp by Chandelier”

For 10 years Parks, a Florida native born and raised in Jacksonville, served as the sideman guitarist to Woodstock Festival legend Richie Havens. Now based out of St. Louis, Walter has recently co-written with Stan Lynch, former Tom Petty drummer and has performed at various venues with R&B drum legend Bernard Purdie and at Lincoln Center with Judy Collins.

“In much the same way that The Okefenokee Swamp still is the eastern United States’ final frontier, it has also served the same for my career, for by it I have found uncharted territory and that’s hard to do in the music business.”

The Firewater Tent Revival

(Saturday Evening)

Expect the unexpected!

Described as a “whiskey snortin’, happy-golucky, good-time band,”

The Firewater Tent Revival is a psychedelic bluegrass band from the small fishing village of Mayport, located just outside of Jacksonville Florida. Not quite Bluegrass, Country or Rock, this is “PsychedelicParty-Grass.” Storyteller style lyrics, using bluegrass instrumentation, done jam band style, by a High-Energy String Band simply makes you want to dance.

Formed in 2010 and originally called The Hopeless, Dave Smith and Jon Deering formed the band simply to be able to keep playing music together. Soon after, new members joined the band and it had several featured guest artists.The group recorder their first EP “Sinkin Boat” in February 2015. Two months later they played their way into the hearts of the Jacksonville public, winning third place in the popular crowd funding

festival One Spark.

Folio Weekly Magazine, Jacksonville’s most widely printed arts and entertainment publication. proclaimed, “The Firewater Tent Revival burns it up with primo bluegrass and a hot party vibe” and describes them as being “on a subliminal mission to return the music to its original function as pure entertainment.”

“When it isn’t fun to do any more it’s over,” is the perspective the band maintains.

Ben

Prestage (Saturday Evening)

Ben Prestage has music in his blood. His greatgrandmother was a professional musician who toured the American vaudeville circuit opening shows for Al Jolson. His grandmother was a Boogie-Woogie pianist. For years, Folk Festival fans have flocked to the stages where Ben Prestage appears. Growing up in a swampy area of rural central Florida, Ben has created his own signature sound, “Deep South Swamp Music,” by melding Juke Joint Blues, Delta Blues, and blazing Piedmont Blues, with awardwinning finger-style guitar and soaring steel-guitar work.

After a stint as a busker on historic Beale Street in Memphis, Ben emerged as one the nation’s top one-man-bands and earned acclaimed accolades including: the Lyon/Pitchford Award for “Best Diddley Bow Player” and “Most Unique Performer” at the Songwriters’ Showcase of America. He also finished 4th, 3rd, and 2nd place at the International Blues Challenge. Ben is one of the only artists to be nominated for both a Blues Music Award and an Independent Music Award. These accomplishments and uniquely powerful live performances have earned Ben invitations to perform at prominent blues, jazz, and folk festivals across North America, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

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Dôdô Awoko

(Saturday Evening)

Dôdô Awoko showcases the rich heritage of instruments, rhythms and songs from the Côte d’Ivoire and the rest of West Africa. Dôdô Awoko is made up of various African musical instruments. The name Dôdô Awoko is in itself made from two words each representing an instrument: the Dôdô and the Awoko both used in the group. Other traditional instruments including the Balafon, Boro, Yadoh, and Attoungblan added to the captivating voices of the lead vocalist and other singers. The Dôdô Awoko is a very unique, complex, musical combination and Mr. Zagbo is one of the very few musicians in Côte d’Ivoire to play it today. Dôdô Awoko as an ensemble participated in several festivals in Africa as well as in America.

The Currys

(Friday Evening)

The Currys have been staking their claim within the Americana music scene since 2013, when vocalist/guitarist Tommy Curry quit his teaching job and moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, to join the harmony-based folk-rock outfit newly formed by brother Jimmy Curry (vocals, guitar) and cousin Galen Curry (vocals, bass). The band, who cut their teeth playing the oyster bars and listening rooms of the Florida Panhandle, have since written and released three full-length albums: their studio debut Follow (2014), called “eye-opening, but warmly familiar” by Earmilk, and whose title track is “one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard” (Todd Moe of NCPR); sophomore effort West of Here

(2016), with its “tight-as-a-rubber-band” harmonies and “infectious” songwriting (PopMatters); and This Side of the Glass (2019).

In 2020, The Currys began releasing a weekly podcast, This Side of the Mic, to showcase new song ideas and remain engaged in the creative process during the pandemicinduced downtimes. The podcast allowed The Currys to expand their writing and production palettes and this evolution resulted in genre-hopping single releases such as “Man on the Side” and “Last Night.”

Bing Futch

(Friday Evening)

Using Appalachian mountain dulcimer, Native American flute, ukulele and a board full of stomp-boxes, Bing Futch celebrates traditional and modern Americana music with passion, humor and boundless energy. Known for his musical shape-shifting, Bing switches the channels on style and tone with every song, from his pop, rock and blues originals to world music and showtunes. Bing was a finalist at the 2016 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN and was named “Best Solo Guitar” despite performing solely on the mountain dulcimer.

Bing is the grandson of the late boxing hall-of-famer Eddie Futch. With roots in both African and Seminole Indian cultures, Bing Futch’s window to America is a unique landscape of music, words and imagery. He began playing Appalachian mountain dulcimer at Knott’s Berry Farm theme park in 1986, working at a Ghost Town shop for Bud & Donna Ford. That same year, Futch founded techno-punk band Crazed Bunnyz, a trio that grew popular in the international underground college radio scene and has remained a fan favorite long after disbanding in 1988. Since then, he has enjoyed a diverse and prolific solo career, composing dozens of scores for film, theater, themed attractions and television. In 1994, he wrote and recorded music for The Castle of Miracles in Kissimmee, Florida. In 1999, Futch formed American band Mohave, featuring the mountain dulcimer as the main instrument. The group has performed at the House of Blues in Walt Disney World, Hard Rock Live at Universal Studios Florida and has opened for Molly Hatchet, among other acts.

As a solo performer, Bing’s high-energy, crowd pleasing

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shows and unique approach to the mountain dulcimer combined have made him a much-sought national act from California to Connecticut. Named 2006 “Songwriter of the Year” by the Songwriters Showcases of America (with a 2007 “Song of the Year” award for “Crazy Feels Like”), Bing has become a regularly featured artist at festivals, house concerts, Irish and British pubs and other venues across the country. He’s opened for Grammyaward nominated artists Sam & Ruby, bluesman Scott Ainslie, singer/songwriter Larry Mangum, shared the stage with Zydeco king Chubby Carrier, Tom Constanten (The Grateful Dead), national fingerstyle guitar champion Michael Chapdelaine, produced numerous recordings and has published several songbooks. Alongside his performing career, Bing has become a popular instructor of the mountain dulcimer and Native American flute and his video podcast, “Dulcimerica,” has been seen and downloaded by over half a million unique viewers.

The Peyton Brothers (Saturday Evening)

The Florida Folk Festival is pleased to welcome the Peyton Brothers who have been performing their unique style of bluegrass and folk music for over forty years and made their first Florida Folk Festival appearance in 1977. The four brothers, John, Dan, Michael and Lee, began playing as a hobby in 1972. Within a year of picking up instruments for the first time the brothers were making public appearances in and around their hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. In 1976 the group began performing on a full-time basis and was soon touring throughout the Southeast playing for clubs, colleges, music festivals, theme parks and concert venues. They have appeared in concert with such notables as The Dillards, John Hartford, Doc & Merle Watson, Gamble Rogers, Ralph Stanley, Mike Cross, Mike Reid and many other well-known folk, bluegrass and country performers.

In 1978 the band hosted its own TV show, The Peyton Brothers – Up Close and Musical, which aired on NBC’s Jacksonville, Florida affiliate, WTLV. They also appeared for five consecutive summers at ABC’s Silver Springs Park in Ocala, Florida.

In 1981 the band ceased performing full-time but never abandoned their music. Over the last twenty-five years The Peyton Brothers have continued to perfect their musical style which features vocal harmonies only a family act can deliver. They are now joined on guitar by Lee’s son Grant and promise to delight you with awesome fun filled folk and bluegrass music. Their performances remain as fresh and enjoyable as ever drawing their audiences into an entertainment experience that eclipses the typical listening event.

The Byrne Brothers (Sunday evening)

The Byrne Brothers – Luca (19), Finn (18), Dempsey (14) and Tommy (Dad) are from Donegal, Ireland, and are a multi award winning family band currently taking the Irish American scene by storm!

Their achievements include a massive social media presence, winning the Young Artist Academy© Award for Outstanding Music Ensemble and being named Rising Stars of the Year by American Celtic Radio Listeners for their album “Living the Dream.”

They are also one of the biggest Irish bands on Facebook, Youtube and Instagram and TikTok with over 70,000 followers and 32 million views on their music videos. They are all County champion musicians and Ulster champion Irish dancers. The band consists of Luca on accordion, Finn on banjo, mandolin, and guitar, Dempsey on bodhran and whistle, and their father Tommy on uilleann pipes, fiddle, guitar, and grade 1 bagpiper. They moved to America in 2018 to perform at Walt Disney World where they became Youngest ever cast members in the history of Disney, and have since toured extensively

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across 47 US States.

The Byrne Brothers have established themselves as a significant presence in the traditional Irish music scene, attracting interest from Hollywood and receiving a reputation as a “Must See Band” at festivals. They are well known for their electrifying and high-energy performances that showcase modern traditional Irish music and world-class Irish dancing. Their music features both traditional and original tunes and songs. Audiences around the globe are captivated by their infectious humor, energy and talent.

Jeanie Fitchen (Sunday evening)

Jeanie Fitchen has come a long way since her first appearance at the Florida Folk Festival in 1966. Since then, she has traveled to nearly every part of Florida, as well as to Tennessee, New York, Alaska, and points in between, earning for herself a bevy of accolades and awards for her performances, songwriting, and recordings focusing not only upon the culture, history, and environment of Florida, but also the basic human dignity of all people and their right to live in freedom with justice and equal opportunity.

As a young teenager Jeanie found her niche in the simple beauty and artistic style of traditional music from around the world. Throughout the years, however, she began to write and record her own songs earning a 1999 Grammy nomination for her CD, Roads, in the category of Best New Folk Album. For her long-standing contributions to the folk cultural resources of the state, Jeanie received a Florida Folk Heritage Award in 2001. For the songs she has written and sung in praise and defense of Florida’s natural and cultural heritage, Jeanie was honored with The Fellow Man and Mother Earth Award by The Stetson Kennedy Foundation in 2010. And In recognition of her legacy of performances as a Florida singer-songwriter and for her contributions to the Florida Folk Festival, Jeanie was inducted into the 2016 Florida Folk Festival’s Legends and Legacy Hall of Fame. When asked why people should care about folk music, Fitchen says, “I think it allows people to reflect, and sometimes it compels people to make changes in their life or world around them. There will never be another form of music like this.” And there will never be another Jeanie Fitchen, a truly unique performer devoted to

Florida Folk music steeped in the tradition of past folk icons and Florida’s diverse cultural history.

Jon & Zelton Kay (Saturday Evening)

“Father-son songwriters from Southern Indiana, Jon and Zelton Kay are no

strangers to White Springs. Jon directed the Florida Folk Festival from 2001 to 2004, and Zelton began his life in White Springs. While working as the folklorist for the park, Jon coordinated craft demonstrations and organized dulcimer retreats. A successful folk musician in his own right, he also hosted monthly coffeehouse concerts where local and national performers shared their talents. By age two, Zelton was accompanying his father at these events playing a small wash-tub bass. Today, Zelton can’t remember a time when he didn’t play music.

Zelton began writing songs while attending Indiana University, developing a catalogue of folk and alternativeinspired tracks which sonically owe as much to bluegrass and country music as they do to modern indie rock. A talented guitar and dulcimer player, Zelton can often be found filling up the cafes, art galleries, and small-town theaters of Central Indiana with his eloquent ballads and upbeat anthems.

Since leaving White Springs, Jon has served as the state folklorist of Indiana and is currently a professor of folklore at Indiana University. He doesn’t play concerts that often anymore but has returned to the festival to share the stage with his son and to celebrate the retirement of his friend Elaine McGrath. “

Bob Patterson (Friday Evening)

Bob Patterson is a Florida Folk music icon with over five decades of fans, has recorded ten albums, and has published three books. He’s an environmentalist serving as spokesperson for protecting the wild heart of Florida. He received a Life

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Time Achievement Award from the Florida Storytelling Association and the ‘Fellow Man and Mother Earth Award from the Stetson Kennedy Foundation. The award recognizes performers and composers whose lives and works have influenced their concern for the environment, human rights, and traditional culture.

Bob’s music career began in Philadelphia in the late 1960’s when he signed a recording contract with Vanguard Records with his band ‘Elizabeth”. Bob wrote the popular single, ‘MaryAnn’ released from that project. He followed up with another Lp recorded at Norm Baker Studios and then hit the road as a touring singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist. He decided to make St Augustine, Florida for his home base from which to tour. He is an inaugural inductee in the St Augustine Music Hall of Fame. Bob is well known in his community as the co-founder of the Gamble Rogers Folk Festival where he served as the events artistic director for twenty five years, president too! He created ‘Music for the Birds’, a benefit concert series for the HAWKE Wildlife Association. He, also created with his partner, Carol Kramer, The Lullaby of the Rivers Festival which is an Earth Day celebration presenting an Earth Day Fair with lots of great music and food. Bob’s takes whatever he’s singing and makes it his own. Not many people can do that. His performances are a blend of music and storytelling. He’s been a favorite at the annual Florida Folk Festival and around the whole state for over fifty years. Don’t miss an opportunity to catch one of his performances.

The Carr Sisters (Friday Evening)

Florida grown sisters Madi and Ella grew up playing music together. Their tight vocal blood-harmonies combined with flat-pick guitar, acoustic bass, and bluegrass rhythms create a unique small-town sound. In addition to performing soulful original songs, the duo often covers a wide range of classic rock, folk, and country favorites, drawing influences from Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash, Elvis, and Bruce Springsteen. The Carrs deliver lively shows, and their musical chemistry is undeniable. The duo is currently based in Austin, TX.

Sarah McCulloch (Sunday evening)

Considered a noteworthy talent of Florida’s singer-songwriter community, Sarah McCulloch was born in Miami and raised in the Everglades. She has been prolifically penning heartfelt songs about her distinctive upbringing for years. Her debut album, ‘Strawberry Moon,’ was released in 2019 to rave reviews and even garnered a nomination for Country Album of the Year at the Independent Music Awards. Sarah’s second album, ‘Sawmiller’s Daughter,’ was recorded in Muscle Shoals and produced by the reputable Jim Bickerstaff. Her music has been praised by Lonesome Highway Magazine as “a refreshing departure from the current trend of country crossover and genre-blending,” and Sarah was also recently announced as a Top 3 Finalist in the Will McLean Music Festival’s New Florida Songs Competition.

Bullard Brothers and Friends

(Friday evening)

The Bullard Brothers and Friends are a five-piece folk and bluegrass group hailing from White Springs, Florida. The group includes brothers Jerry Lawrence Bullard (vocals, guitar) Johnny Bullard (vocals), Kerry Waldron (upright bass, vocals), Clint Dockery (mandolin), and Jason Baker (fiddle). The group combines traditional southern gospel songs with Florida folk and bluegrass tunes. The group’s dynamic live performances enjoyed by audiences across North Florida have made them a beloved fixture of the Florida folk scene, including at the annual Florida Folk Festival where they have been performing for over 50 years. Be sure to catch their set for a good, down-home time.

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Raymi Dance School

(Friday Evening)

Raymi Dance School is a nonprofit organization that shares the dance, music, history and traditions of Peru in Florida. Led by Silvia Huddleston, a Folkloric Art Teacher and a Peruvian folk dancer raised in Lima, where rural and indigenous folklife was once viewed negatively. She joined the Folkloric Ballet in Lima and while traveling to perform, deepened her appreciation for the Spanish, Afro-Peruvian, and indigenous influences in Peruvian folk dance. The group played an instrumental role in promoting national pride in Peru’s folk culture when they performed at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band

(Friday Evening)

With vocals, guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and bass fiddle, Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band connect people with music that is woven into the fabric of the United States. Carrying on the tradition of old-time, pre-bluegrass string bands and songsters, they

raise the roof with traditional folk songs, fiddle tunes, old-time country, bluegrass, Appalachian music, ragtime, blues, spirituals, railroad and cowboy songs, work songs, sea shanties, reels, breakdowns, ballads, and more.

2PM

(Sunday evening)

2PM Band is Pete Price, Pete Hennings, and Mike Jurgensen, a trio of talented musicians who blend their varied musical talents into an eclectic mix of material, from original songs, to obscure covers, to well-known standards. With Price on guitar and bass, Hennings on guitar, bass, and mandolin, and Jurgensen on guitar and harmonica, these three performers combine tight instrumentation with pristine vocal harmonies to delight audiences of all musical tastes. All three are talented songwriters and have performed solo as well as with other bands: Hennings and Price with Jon Semmes and the Florida Friends, and Jurgensen and Hennings with Myriad. The combination of Pete, Pete, and Mike as 2PM Band, however, is a unique trio that has delighted audiences at acoustic venues and folk festivals around the state of Florida.

2PM Band has released four CDs: “Keepin’ Time”, “Let’s Just Play One More”, “Writing on the Wall”, and their recent 2023 release, ”Going Back”.

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Special Guest Artist

Jim Stafford

Winter Haven native; singer, songwriter, and entertainer extraordinaire. He wrote and recorded his first chart making song, “The Swamp Witch”, produced by his boyhood friend Kent LaVoie aka Lobo in 1974. He followed with a gold single, “Spiders and Snakes”, which stayed on the American pop charts for 26 weeks. The hits just kept coming and included “My Girl Bill”, “Wildwood Weed”, and the wonderfully satirical “Cow Patti”, written for the Clint Eastwood movie, Any Which Way You Can, in which Jim appeared. For over 20 years the Jim Stafford show is always named a favorite by audiences and critics alike. The singer, songwriter, comic genius, and entertainer extraordinaire is self-taught on guitar, fiddle, piano, banjo, organ, harmonica and the human brain--he might bring any of them into play at any moment. 417 Magazine, the Springfield News Leader and the Branson Entertainment Awards have voted Jim Best Entertainer, Best Personality and Best Comedy Show. Mayflower Tours has named Jim’s Show as one of their top ten suppliers in North America. Jim wrote many of the songs for which he is famous and has brought his inimitable style to several movie soundtracks. He received a gold record for his work in the Disney movie The Fox and The Hound and

writes for many other popular artists.

Jim launched his television career with The Jim Stafford Show on ABC in 1975. His numerous television appearances included music specials, variety shows, and talk shows. He co-hosted the popular prime time show Those Amazing Animals with Burgess Meredith and Pricilla Presley. Jim also hosted 56 episodes of Nashville on the Road and made 26 appearances on the Tonight Show. In 1987 & 1988, Jim was a regular performer and head writer/producer for the Emmynominated Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

Jim’s first love has always been live performance. During his show Jim combines hysterical comedy with masterful performances on the classical guitar as well as with heartwarming stories of the human spirit. Critically acclaimed as the “Victor Borge of the Guitar”, Jim creates hilarious antics from everyday life taking laughter to a new art form. He’ll share his secrets for creating stage presence.

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Legends and Legacies

Legends and Legacies is a lifetime achievement award given to recognize those individuals who have been instrumental towards the success of the Florida Folk Festival. The Stephen Foster Citizen Support Organization (CSO) developed the idea as a project to bring awareness to the history of the festival and to celebrate all those folks who have contributed to its legacy as being the longest continuously running folk festival in the country.

The names and recognitions of all the award recipients are in a specially designated area by the bell tower. The goal of the CSO is to recognize new honorees each year during the Festival.

The Makley Family

Elroyce Makley was a self-taught musician who began her musical career with the Hawaiian laptop steel guitar, then Dobro, piano, organ and finally the autoharp. She learned to yodel from listening to the radio, eventually perfecting the double and then triple yodel. In the Sixties, she had already made a local name for herself performing on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour, booked as the yodeling housewife. She first auditioned in 1971 from Jacksonville, Florida, over the telephone, with Cousin Thelma Bolton. When Elroyce was accepted by Thelma, she asked if her then teenage daughters Bettina and Ruthanne, could join her on the stage. Cousin Thelma told here they would have to pass an audition with beloved singers/storytellers Jay and Peggy Smith, also living in Jacksonville at the time, which they did. After their first year at the festival, in May 1971, they were invited back annually to perform as the Makley Family. Cousin Thelma insisted that “Ladies” only appeared on stage in dresses, so Elroyce created and sewed her granny style dresses the act became known for over the years. They also became known for their signature three-part harmony yodeling. Then, in 1990, the oldest daughter, Lucindagail, returned to Florida and re-joined the family group. She was an accomplished solo artist but had to “learn” to yodel to sing at the festival. During the years that followed, the Makleys held many yodeling workshops, one that attracted 94 potential yodelers!

Also in these years, the group began to morph and grow, introducing a third and eventually even a fourth generation to the stage. Bettina’s son Stephen and daughter Natalie, Ruthanne’s daughter Emily, (the group’s first lyric soprano!), and Lucindagail’s grandchildren Jaylin, Ricky, and Alyssa.

In 2002, the year of the 50th anniversary, the Makleys were invited to the evening main stage event by Jeannie Fitchen to share some memories. They told of how the Old Marble Stage was once the one and only stage, talked about Cousin Thelma’s dress code and how they had finally found a home of “kindred spirits” at the festival, and ended with a song written by Bettina about White Springs and her years growing up at the festival, which involved 5-part harmony yodeling. Elroyce, or “Mom Makley” as she was known around the campfires, passed away shortly after that in 2003, just after performing one last time on the “Old Marble Stage” with many of her kids and grands in attendance.

The family is still performing today, at festivals across Florda and beyond with three core members, Ruthanne, Lucindagail, and Emily but their legacy covers 1971 through 2019; 48 years of love and dedication to the Florida Folk Music scene.

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Legends and Legacies

Gamble Rogers

Dating back to countless headline performances to capacity crowds on the Amphitheater Stage, incredibly popular workshops on the Old Marble Stage and graciously hosted “picking sessions” around his festival-weekend campfire at the Campgrounds, Gamble responded to as many invitations from Cousin Thelma Boltin, Barbara Beauchamp and Peggy Bulger as he was able to work into his non-stop touring schedule as “Florida’s Traveling Troubadour” for over twenty years prior to his untimely, heroic death in 1991. Gamble was a featured headliner at major folk and storytelling festivals coast-to-coast throughout the U. S. and Canada, but he ALWAYS considered the Florida Folk Festival his “home” festival and personal favorite. Rogers honed his skill of combining his exceptional Merle Travis style of finger-picking with his wizardry with words in a small club called The Baffled Knight that he and a couple of his singer/songwriter friends opened in Tallahassee. On a trip to Massachusetts, Rogers was invited to sit in on an audition with the Serendipity Singers. Rogers wowed the group and toured with them for two years. The group made appearances on “The Tonight Show,” “Hootenanny” and ‘The Ed Sullivan Show,” gaining national exposure through the appearances. For the next twenty years, Gamble was a popular

solo act traveling across the US and Canada. He appeared on numerous television shows and served as a guest commentator for NPR. In 1985 he was honored to perform with legendary bluegrass legend Doc Watson in Carnegie Hall.

Besides his skill as a musician, Rogers was best known for his original stories, especially his creation of a fictional Florida county, Oklawaha. Throughout the 1970s,

Rogers thrilled audiences at the Florida Folk Festival - the state’s annual, preeminent showcase of the best of Florida’s music, art and culture.

Gamble Rogers lost his life while trying to assist a tourist in trouble in rough water at a Florida State Park. In , 1992, the Florida Legislature rename the park Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach in recognition of his heroism.

The 2024 inductees join an esteemed group of iconic Florida Folk Festival Legends and Legacies.

2014

• Barbara Beauchamp

• Cousin Thelma Boltin

• Sara Gertrude Knott

• Lillian Saunders

• Nancy Morgan

• Ruby Shaw

2016 2017

• J. L. McMullen

• Jeanie Fitchen

• James Billie

• Frank Thomas

• Grant and Gail Simons

2018 2019

• Dale Crider

• Marie Norris

• Aunt Peggy and Jay Smith

• Bobby Hicks

• JU Lee

2022 2023

• Dr. Peggy A. Bulger

• Whitey Markle

• Merri McKenzie

•Lloyd Baldwin

• Wayne Martin

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The FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL is grateful to be assisted by The Florida Conservation Corps (FLCC) AmeriCorps Members & Staff!

FLCC Mission: Develop natural and cultural resource leaders by connecting them to areas of critical need in conservation, preservation, Interpretation, and resource based recreation.

What is the FLCC?

The Florida Conservation Corps (FLCC) is an AmeriCorps State/National Service Program that operates within the Florida Park Service. Our members meet critical needs in Florida State Parks and are offered hands -on service learning opportunities designed to develop them into leaders of natural resource management, volunteer recruitment, outreach, and trail management.

Project Areas:

Project A.N.T. - AmeriCorps Non-native plant Terminators Focus on the treatment of invasive plant species in Florida state parks

Project R.O.A.R. - Regional Outreach & Awareness Recruiters focus on interpretation and recruiting volunteers for the Florida State Parks.

Project T.R.E.C. - Trail Restoration & Enhancement Corps is a traveling team that focus on creating, restoring and enhancing Florida State Park trails for visitors.

THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE AMERICORPS MEMBERS ASSISTING WITH THE FESTIVAL!

Cameron Becker

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Supporting those who serve Florida State Parks, past and present, by providing financial assistance, cultivating a family atmosphere, and perpetuating a spirit of unity and service.

If you received assistance at the Festival Information area or caught a ride on one of the visitors shuttles you likely encountered a member of the Florida Park Service Ranger Association (FPSRA)

The FPSRA, established in 1989, provides support to Florida State Parks and the Florida Park Service family, past and present.

Service projects are an important function of the FPSRA and include repairs to park facilities, performing resource management projects, preserving the history of the Florida Park Service, and lending a helping hand at special events such as the Florida Folk Festival.

Another important function of the FPSRA is providing support to those who serve the Florida State Parks. A Relief Fund provides financial assistance during difficult times such as when Hurricane Ian struck Florida in 2022. Almost $50,000 in grants were awarded to those impacted. Since the Fund was established in 1993 over $200,000 has been awarded.

Consider giving to the Florida Park Service Ranger Association to continue the important work of helping Florida Park Rangers who have experienced financial hardship and supporting those who serve the Florida State Parks. www.fpsra.org/Donate The Florida Park Service Ranger Association is a 501(c)3 not for profit organization.

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Family – Service – Traditions

The Elements: Earth

Dom Tartaglia, Vanessa Navarro Maza, and Zach Moreau

Introduction

The term folklife refers to the living traditions currently practiced and passed down within groups by word of mouth, imitation or observation. Folklife is a mirror that reflects community values, challenges, and successes. Florida folklife is shaped by the state’s tremendous diversity and growth, creating a rich cultural landscape.

What’s New at Florida Folklife?

Housed within the Division of Arts and Culture in Tallahassee, Florida Folklife Program has documented, presented, and preserved Florida’s vibrant folklife and traditional culture for more than forty years State Folklorist Dr. Dom Tartaglia and Vanessa Navarro Maza from HistoryMiami completed the 2023 Fieldwork Survey, conducting ethnographic research on traditions involving the Earth in Florida. Apart from the fieldwork survey and last year’s festival, Dom presided over the nominations of the 2024 Folk Heritage Award, coordinated the 2023 Artist Residency (with Artist-in-Residence Lili Forbes) and coordinated the 2023-24 Apprenticeship Program (all four teams will perform on the Folklife Stage). Dom would also like to welcome two new members of the team to the Folklife Stage, Zach Moreau and Peter Abello. Zach is a folklorist at the Division of Arts and Culture and a PhD student in Musicology at Florida State University. He was last at the Folk Festival in 2022 when he volunteered on the Folklife Stage for FSU’s “Making the Folk Festival” class. Peter Abello is the new Public Information specialist at the Florida Division of Arts and Culture.

Housed within the Division of Arts and Culture in Tallahassee, Florida Folklife Program has documented, presented, and preserved Florida’s vibrant folklife and traditional culture for more than forty years. State Folklorist Dr. Dom Tartaglia and Vanessa Navarro Maza from HistoryMiami completed the 2023 Fieldwork Survey, conducting ethnographic research on traditions involving the Earth in Florida. Apart from the fieldwork survey and last year’s festival, Dom presided over the nominations of the 2024 Folk Heritage Award, coordinated the 2023 Artist Residency (with Artist-in-Residence Lili Forbes) and coordinated the 2023-24 Apprenticeship Program (all four teams will perform on the Folklife Stage). Dom would also like to welcome two new members of the team to the Folklife Stage, Zach Moreau and Peter Abello. Zach is a folklorist at the Division of Arts and Culture and a PhD student in Musicology at Florida State University. He was last at the Folk Festival in 2022 when he volunteered on the Folklife Stage for FSU’s “Making the Folk Festival” class. Peter Abello is the new Public Information specialist at the Florida Division of Arts and Culture.

Earth

For four years at the Folk Festival, the Folklife Area will be covering how the elements influence traditions in the state of Florida. Based on survey fieldwork conducted in 2023, the theme of this year’s Folklife Area is Earth

Florida is many things. It’s the people and the people groups who have moved here, some centuries ago, some last year. It’s the lines drawn on the map and the places we live. But most of all, it’s the earth beneath our feet. The dirt, the trees, the sand, the land, is all Florida. The people of Florida have made their homes on this land and make their lives here, often off the land. Florida Folklife interviewed more than thirty people last year whose traditions involve the Earth. We spoke to farmers and farmworkers, woodturners, hunters, potters, worm grunters, gardeners, and more to find the answer to the question of what makes the land we live in unique.

The tradition bearers on the Folklife Stage come from across our state, from Big Cypress to the Big Bend, from the 305 to the Panhandle, Gainesville, the Gulf Coast, and many more. This year, the stage brings you seven Earth tradition bearers, four teams from the Apprenticeship Program, and six traditional musicians returning to the stage.

Invited Artists:

Daniel Tommie

Daniel Tommie is a member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and represents the Bird clan. He is a traditional artist specializing in dugout canoe carving and presents on Seminole camps and hunting traditions. Daniel works at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum as an educator and Interpretive Guide Coordinator. He recreated a hunting camp at the museum complete with two chickees, pelts, and a variety of dugout canoes. Daniel grew up in his grandparents’ camp in what is now the Everglades National Park and drew from memories of spending time in traditional camps with his family as well as his vast knowledge of Seminole history to recreate the hunting camp at the museum. Daniel feels his job is more important than ever

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seeing how some Seminole traditions are being lost. He does his best to maintain the Seminole language in conveying values and preserving memories within his family. At work, he also feels he is fulfilling his duty of keeping these traditions alive. During his interactions with guests, he discusses carving traditions, chickee making, the importance of protecting and restoring the Everglades, and even tells stories about war tactics during the Seminole wars. Daniel also discusses Seminole cooking traditions, especially in relation to the cooking chickee at the camp. All the traditions he focuses on at the museum are closely tied to the natural environment, whether he is discussing wood carving, acquiring, and preparing the materials for chickee making, or how hunting traditions are entrenched in the unique ecosystem of the Everglades.

Jackson County is an important place in Florida for rural African American folkways, and Danny Sylvester is an important figure for the preservation of African American folkways and history in the Panhandle. Mr. Sylvester owns and operates Renaissance Park, a 40acre wilderness park about 8.5 miles northeast of downtown Marianna. This bi-annual festival and the open-air museum in which it is housed not only curates an important perspective on Florida’s history and folkways but it also supports economic development of Jackson County by promoting minority-owned small businesses. A member of the Florida Folklife Council, Danny is also a contributor to the

Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network, where he has developed landmarks for African American tourism sites in North Florida, contributed content in the Florida Black Heritage Trail Magazine, and is currently the process of restoring and preserving Graham’s Place, an African American historical landmark in Marianna. Mr. Sylvester also serves as a Cultural Preservationist for the John G. Riley House & Museum, where he is a specialist on historical techniques used and passed down by rural African American communities in Florida, such as cane syrup refinement, broom making, and jelly making. You will see Danny displaying broom making and other rural African American folkways from the Panhandle.

Just outside of Gainesville, a bowl-shaped cavity 120 feet deep leads down to a miniature rain forest. This is called the Devil’s Millhopper, one of the most remarkable features in Florida’s landscape. Small streams trickle down the steep slopes of this limestone sinkhole, disappearing through crevices in the ground. Lush vegetation thrives in the shade of the walls even in dry summers. Fossilized shark teeth, marine shells and the fossilized remains of extinct land animals found in the sink. This dramatic feature has been a part of Florida since before Florida has had human

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Daniel Tommie Danny Sylvester Danny Sylvester Heather Goston

inhabitants, and Park Manager Heather Goston will be at the Folklife Stage representing Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park and explaining how it has changed Florida’s culture and the land itself.

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Heather Goston

Many woodworking traditions have flourished

has since dedicated much of his time to the art form. David describes Ralph as a jack-of-alltrades who can fix anything because of his experience working as a plumber, welder, mechanic, and fabricator. Ralph also credits his mother, who was a clay artist, with instilling in him a love of handmade crafts. For more about the South Florida Woodturner’s guild, or to see Ralph and David turn wood, stop by their booth at the Folklife Area.

Many woodworking traditions have flourished

Heather Goston

Many woodworking traditions

David Freundlich and Ralph Callander

Many woodworking traditions have flourished

in Florida. Ralph Callander and David Freundlich are woodturners and leaders in the south Florida woodturning community. Ralph serves as the President of the South Florida Woodturners Guild and David is one of the organization’s founding members. The South Florida Woodturners Guild’s mission is to advance and promote the craft of woodturning, and both David and Ralph serve as mentors to other woodturners to help preserve and promote this tradition. Ralph and David were both introduced to woodturning at a young age in their respective shop classes. David became interested from the very beginning and sought out mentors to help him hone his craft. He was a Special Education teacher but continued to practice and teach woodturning. Ralph rediscovered woodturning only recently and

has since dedicated much of his time to the art form. David describes Ralph as a jack-of-alltrades who can fix anything because of his experience working as a plumber, welder,

Born in Holguín, Cuba, Leandro Rojas is a master musician and instrument builder who specializes in the tres, a guitar-like instrument with three pairs of strings, and the primary instrument in the Cuban son genre. Born into a family of popular musicians, Leandro learned to play and build this instrument from his uncle. His uncle first taught him when he was about 12 years old. Tired of waiting for his uncle to repair his guitar, Leandro brought a piece of wood from a fruit crate to his uncle’s shop to make an instrument for himself. He watched his uncle work, and with his guidance, Leandro made his first tres guitar. He has since mastered the craft and constructs guitars,

his mother, who was a clay artist, with instilling in him a love of handmade crafts. For more about the South Florida Woodturner’s guild, or to see Ralph and David turn wood, stop by their booth at the Folklife Area.

his uncle work, and with his guidance, Leandro

his uncle work, and with his guidance, Leandro and has lived and worked in Miami since 2006. He will be playing Cuban son musical instruments at the Folklife Area and will be inhabitants Go representing State and explaining how it has changed Florida’s culture and the land itself.

and has lived and worked in Miami since 2006. He will be playing Cuban son musical instruments at the Folklife Area and will be

David Freundlich and Ralph Callander

Born in Holguín, Cuba, Leandro Rojas is a master musician and instrument builder who tres instrument with three pairs of strings, and the primary instrument in the Cuban genre. Born into a family of popular musicians, Leandro learned

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conducting a Q&A in Spanish, with English translation provided.

Leandro Rojas

Ana Chipana is a Bolivian chef and nutritionist originally from La Paz, Bolivia and now living in Tamarac, FL. When she came to the United States in 2000, she worked a variety of jobs including cleaning houses, babysitting, serving at a school cafeteria, and as an operator. She discovered her passion for cooking only after her husband had a serious health scare. Ana’s husband, Ramiro Silvestre, had a severe gastric disease and was told he would need a serious operation. Remembering her mother’s cooking in Bolivia and the nutritional value of quinoa, Ana began cooking quinoa-based meals for her husband, and in a matter of months, he recovered without having to undergo surgery. This sparked a desire in Ana to share the incredible properties of this plant using creative recipes that would appeal to a variety of tastes. She had made her kitchen an incubator where she experimented with different dishes through trial and error. In 2010, she began her small business, Wara Quinoa Organic Bakery through which she sold organic quinoa cakes, muffins, cookies, and her famous quinoa huminita dish. I 2013, Ana was considered the informal “ambassador of Bolivian quinoa” and was invited to present her dishes to the United Nations. She will be making quinoa and describing the nutritional value and cultural richness of Bolivia’s

foodways at the Folklife Stage, in Spanish with English translation provided.

Ana Chipana

Folklife Apprenticeship Program

The Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program supports the preservation of folklife and traditional arts through one-on-one apprenticeships. These awards fund three-, six-, or eight-month periods of study between a master artist and apprentice, recognizing the value of folklife and traditional arts in Florida while enabling participants to work together to maintain and share traditional knowledge, skills, and techniques. At the end of the apprenticeship term, the master artists and apprenticeships take to the Folklife Stage to demonstrate the finished product from their months of classes. This year, Folklife is proud to present four apprenticeship teams. 2023 Folk Heritage Award winner Concepción Poou Coy Tharin is a master weaver in the traditional indigenous Guatemalan style known as pikb’l. Ms. Tharin grew up in a village in the Alta Verapaz region in the central highlands of Guatemala, speaking only the indigenous Q’eqchi’ language. Now living in Tarpon

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Springs, Florida, she demonstrates and teaches classes in this traditional Mayan technique. She has demonstrated, lectured, exhibited, or had residencies at numerous institutions across Florida and the United States, including the Dunedin Fine Arts Center, New College of Florida, Polk State College, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, the James Museum in St. Petersburg, the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library at the University of South Florida, and the Weedon Island Cultural and Natural History Center. She is currently a Master Artist in the Florida Folklife Apprenticeship program, where she is teaching her daughter Lorelai Tharin the traditional pikb’l weaving of her village. The two of them will demonstrate together on the Folklife Stage.

Florida Folk Heritage Award recipient and Haitian cultural advocate Liliane Louis and apprentice Marie Romaine Desir have explored the intersection of Haitian food, folk medicine, and folk narratives over their Folklife Apprenticeship Program. Here, they showcase the product of their apprenticeship, including a live cooking demo of traditional Haitian foods. “Food is so much a part of our culture and our history.” Says Liliane. I’m always happy cooking, especially when I have someone to share it with.”

Dr. Panayotis “Paddy” League is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Florida State University and Director of the Center for Music of the Americas. He specializes in the traditional music of the Greek islands, northeastern Brazil, Ireland, and their respective diasporas While he lives in Tallahassee, Tarpon Springs is his home, and he is a master of the traditional folk songs and oral poetry from the Greek island of Kalymnos, the folk song repertoire that has flourished in Tarpon Springs amidst years of Kalymnian immigration to the town. Through the support of the Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program, he is teaching his apprentices, daughters Jasmine League and Violet League the folk songs of Kalymnos and Tarpon Springs.

Miami has a small but dedicated community of Irish musicians, such as concertina and accordion player Paul Groff Originally from

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Concepción Poou Coy Tharin and Lorelai Tharin Apprentice Marie Desire, Liliane Nerette Louis, and pastapprentice Marie Moncy Violet, Panayotis, and Jasmine League

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outside of Syracuse, New York, Paul moved to Boston and worked as an Irish Traditional musician and instructor. His family relocated to Miami close to twenty years ago, which gave him less opportunities to perform than in Boston, but he still found himself sharing the stage with the likes of Heritage Award winner James Kelly or serving as an apprenticeship master artist to Sarah Kelly in 2007. When champion Irish dancer Shauna O’Hara wanted to learn more about Irish music, James put her in contact with Paul, and they became student and teacher. Shauna’s extensive knowledge of Irish music from her many years of dance informs her piano playing, she can be heard accompanying Paul on the Folklife Stage.

Music & Dance

Karibbean Groove is a dynamic six-piece dance band that has been entertaining audiences since 2004 with the sounds of the Caribbean. They specialize in many genres of music including Reggae, Zouk, Merengue, Salsa, Calypso, and Konpa. The band members were born in Haiti or the Dominican Republic but met at church in Immokalee, where their families work as farmworkers. Karibbean Groove is also well known for being involved in events that highlight diversity, celebrate culture and community empowerment locally and around the world. At the Folklife Stage on Friday afternoon,

Karribean Groove will be playing songs and telling stories related to the Earth in the Caribbean and in Florida.

Sarah McCulloch is a singer-songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist who, since starting as recent as 2020, has been taking the Florida country and folk scene by storm. Born in Miami and raised in northeastern Collier County, McCulloch grew up in a hand-built house crafted from cypress wood from her father’s sawmill. Living in and around the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation, she was inspired by her lived experiences of Seminole and local Floridians.

While not writing and recording, Sarah performs all around the state at various festivals and venues. Grounded in family and tradition, her music is supported by lyrics that speak to her deep and meaningful lived experiences. Sarah is featured in the 2024 Edition of Florida Music Tours, the Department of State’s online encyclopedia of music in Florida, the theme of which is country music in Florida. In addition to the various stages in which she will be appearing on this weekend, she will appear Saturday afternoon on the Folklife Stage for a solo acoustic set.

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Apprentice Shauna O’Hara & Paul Groff Traditional Karribean Groove

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Lili Forbes is a singer-songwriter based in Tallahassee. She was raised on the Caribbean Island of St. Maarten in the Dutch Antilles and spent her youth between there and Curacao. She first came to Tallahassee to study Music Education and Theater at Florida A&M University. Lili has recorded six albums with her sister Ilismo as Jumelle (formerly The Johnson Sisters), three have which were awarded Caribbean Gospel Music Marlin Awards. Forbes has performed with The FAMU Essential Theatre, the FSU Triple threat Theatre Troop, A&A Production & SOMO Playhouse and she produces FAMU’s annual Sankofa concert. Lili is the Vice- President of the Tallahassee-St. Maarten Foundation (TLHSXM), an organization which seeks to promote peace and prosperity in Tallahassee and its sister city St. Maarten through people-topeople relationships in both the public and private sectors via professional student exchanges, cultural and educational programs, and tourism.

Lili was selected in 2023 as the Florida Folklife Artist-in-Residence, performing the music of St. Maarten and the surrounding Caribbean islands at schools and local venues across Tallahassee. On Sunday at the Folklife Stage, she will be performing traditional music and stories from St. Maarten.

In the sweltering heat of a Florida summer, packed in a warm church for a Sunday service, the swell of the organ gets replaced by the keening whine of the steel guitar. In Florida, we call this particular genre of country-inflected gospel music Sacred Steel.

The Second annual Sacred Steel Summit occurs inside the Florida Folk Festival and is organized by Florida Folk Heritage Award winner Alvin Lee of The Lee Boys At the Sacred Steel stage, you will be able to see more than thirty-five sacred steel musicians,

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Sarah McCulloch Lili Forbes

including legends of the genre like Check Campbell, Lonnie Bennett, Aubrey Ghent, and Ted Beard. Three players from the Sacred Steel Summit will be coming to the folklife stage. Dontrail Wright will be performing on Friday, Frank Owens on Saturday, and Tommy Phillips will perform on Sunday.

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Archivists Adam Watson and Chelsea Joslin assist patrons with research requests at the State Archives of Florida. In addition, they collaborate with the State Archives' Florida Memory Program to select and add digitized archival collections to FloridaMemory.com. Here, they present a sampling of Florida Folklife records including film footage clips from previous Florida Folk Festivals and segments from documentaries created by Florida Folklorists, as well as photographs and music selections from the Florida Folklife Collection that are held by the State Archives and accessible on FloridaMemory.com.

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Traditional Artists

Traditional Artists at the Florida Folk Festival are sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Just the Way it Was

Liliane Nerette-Louis is a Master Artist who has been promoting Haitian folk life for the past 40 years. She is the author of When Night Falls and other publications including 4 children books such as Pumpkin Soup is for Sunday. She was the recipient of the 2006 Life Achievement award. Louis is committed to continue on passing on the rich culture of the Haitian people.

Paco and Celia Fonta

Paco and Celia Fonta are internationally recognized performers of Spanish flamenco music and dance, and for over thirty years have been ambassadors of flamenco throughout Florida and the U.S. They are the founders of Siempre Flamenco, a not for profit organization that promotes the art of flamenco outside of Spain. They are recipients of the Florida Folk Heritage award and have been recipients of the Florida Folk life Apprenticeship Program as Master Artists. Their performances delight and exhilarate both young and old and the emotions expressed are timeless and universal.

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Karibbean Groove

is a dynamic sixpiece dance band that has been entertaining audiences since 2004 with the sounds of the Caribbean. They specialize in many genres of music including Reggae, Zouk, Merengue, Salsa, Calypso, and Konpa. Karibbean Groove is the perfect blend of professional musicians with musical versatility, vocal harmonies and broadbased audience appeal.

The band has been playing at the hottest night clubs, state festivals, fundraising/community and private/ corporate events such as the Reggae Festivals with artists such as Third World, the Florida Folk Festival in White Springs Florida, and the Ronald McDonald House Fundraiser gala, just to name a few.

Karibbean Groove is also well known for being involved in events that highlight diversity, celebrate culture and community empowerment locally and around the world. The band is involved in events with local churches, and non-profit organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Ronald McDonald House, and Friends Together. Our members also travel to Africa to provide free health clinics to women and children suffer from HIV/AIDS and Haiti to distribute Christmas presents and school supplies to children in need.

Our vision is to infuse everyone with our love for music and culture.

Lili Forbes & The Funky Taters

Expect to hear original music by Lili Forbes and Michael Lewis when Lili Forbes & The Funky ‘Taters take the stage at the Florida Folk Fest. Forbes, along with her twin sister from St.

Maarten, have been singing together since they were 12 years old. Growing up with the folk musical traditions of the Caribbean, they soon became expert in many Caribbean rhythms, including gospel, and toured the islands as teenagers. Today they have their own separate musical careers but still compose songs together. The ‘Taters have existed in different mutations since their formation in 2013. Today, they are a nine-piece band with horns that plays danceable funk, jazz, and blues, with an emphasis on New Orleans rhythms. They are led by Michael Lewis, who first began composing songs in 1990. Forbes, who now lives in Tallahassee, and Lewis, from Tallahassee, first came together for a performance at the International Jazz Plaza Festival in Havana, Cuba, in 2019, where they played their originals as well as jazz and pop covers.

Cortadito

Born in the Dominican Republic to Cuban parents, Jose Elias is a musician and arts administrator in Miami. He played with the Grammy-nominated group Conjunto Progresso as well as Miami stalwarts the Spam Allstars before co-founding Cortadito. On the Amphitheater Stage, Cortadito will perform early 20th century Cuban music in the styles of son montuno, guaracha, boleros, nengon and bolero son.

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Traditional Artists

Plena Es

In the Cuban-rich region of South Florida, Plena Es has carved a space for Puerto Rican music by emphasizing the island’s distinctive bomba y plena musical traditions, percussion-driven sounds that reflect the island’s African heritage. Founded by Pierre Ramos in 2004, the band—featuring percussion, trombones, piano, and bass—stirs up a high-energy Latin dance music that is a touchstone for Puerto Rican identity.

Bomba is the 17th-century music created by West African slaves on Puerto Rico’s sugar plantations. Plena mixed bomba with indigenous Taíno Indian music, jibaro music of the island’s mountain farmers, chamber music of the Spanish colonizers and the rhyming verse of urban satirists. The result was often called “el periódico cantado” (“the sung newspaper”), due to the prominence of political commentary and day-to-day news in the lyrics. Backed by the rhythms of the panderos (hand drums), plena focuses on the story, often improvised, sung by a lead singer and chorus. “The bomba was traditionally played in backyards and private parties,” Ramos explains. “These rhythms were considered to be low-class. The plena then went from being played in the streets, to the town plaza, and finally among highclass Puerto Rican people.”

Ramos was inspired upon hearing Los Pleneros del Quinto Olivo as a young boy; he picked up the pandero and found that plena moved him. Shortly after founding Plena Es, Ramos, who also sings, was joined by David Lucca, a conga player originally from Ponce, the region many see as the birthplace of plena. Lucca is now Ramos’s partner in the band. The mission of these pleneros is to get audiences dancing and smiling. “The music is so up-beat and dynamic that it will move anyone that listens to it,”

Ramos claims. “The singer’s interpretation and the lyrics telling those amazing stories are nowhere else to be found. The essence of the instruments, when well-performed, creates such a powerful force that it doesn’t matter where you are from, I bet you will move.”

Harmonic Motion

Harmonic Motion Middle Eastern Music and Dance focuses on folkloric forms from Armenia, Arabic countries, Sefarad, and Turkey. Its core performers and teachers are Joe Zeytoonian on oud, darbuka, and voice, and Myriam Eli on darbuka, riqq, dance, and voice. Based in South Florida since 1985, they have performed and taught at many local festivals, concerts, universities, and schools. Mr. Zeytoonian has received various grants and honorable mentions from the Florida Department of State including the 2000 Florida Folk Heritage Award as Armenian master oud player, as well as Individual Artist Fellowships. He also received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the HistoryMiami Museum. Ms. Eli is the 2023 Florida Folk Heritage Award recipient, and has received Individual Artist Fellowships and the Apprenticeship as Master Teacher of Middle Eastern Dance from the Florida Department of State. Mr. Zeytoonian recorded with Gloria Estefan, and they both recorded and performed with Shakira. Ms. Eli was her dance instructor and choreographer and toured with her. In 2022, Harmonic Motion was Florida Folklife’s Artist-in-Residence performing at Florida State University, Mission San Luis, and various schools in Tallahassee. Additionally, they have toured the United States, Turkey, Japan, and Latin America.

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Isa y el Combo Machete

Isa y el Combo Machete is a new Tallahassee-based band. They research and perform a wide range of songwriting traditions from Latin America. Their repertoire includes boleros, cumbias, Cuban sones, Mexican sones, and Andean music.

Papaloko & Loray Mistik

“Mystic Thunder,” is the meaning of Loray Mistik, an exciting group which emanates from the hills and villages of the mysterious, ancient land of Haiti. Their music brings forward the truth of their traditions with rhythms played out on the drums like the sound of the mystic thunder of the Gods. Vodou speaks to the heart of Haitian people, putting forth a message of social conscience and spiritual strength. It also typifies the music of the Lwa (the Spirits or Orishas) of Africa, with many songs bringing prayers to the 101 Vodou Nations that look over mankind and protect us all. In slavery days, Haiti became a melting pot of African tribes. With the new arrivals many tribal religions blended with a new rhythm created by Don Petwo, a Vodou priest, who combined the attributes of the spirit of Metal, Iron and Justice, Ogun, with Congo rhythms creating Petwo music. Rhythms of the already present Arawak and Taino Indians blended with immigrant African rhythms and the sound of Rara was born. As the popular folk music rooted in Vodou, Rara brought news to the people of the villages and towns and is also played in weddings, funerals, and all social events.

The leader of Loray Mistik, Jude Thegenus, better

known as Papaloko, is an artist, whose work is born through trance, the act of falling into a deep meditative state and then being possessed by a spirit whose purpose is to paint strokes of life onto canvas. At about age six, Jude began to study sculpture and ceramics at the Art Institute of Saint Jean Bosco and later completed his education at Lycee Antenor Firmin. Papaloko’s work can be found internationally in galleries, private homes, cafés, restaurants and nightclubs. He is currently putting the final touches on an eighteen-year project at Mango’s Tropical Café on Ocean Drive in South Beach, where he was commissioned to design a tropical atmosphere within the realms of his extreme creative talent. Loray Mistik performs true Vodou music. Traditional instruments like the kleroon, graj, fe iron, conch shell, cha cha, jon, hand bass, and the drums unify with the eclectic sounds of the guitar, bass and saxophone to create what they call “Vodou pop”. Jude believes that many come to their performances for the spiritual aspect of the music. When Loray Mistik performs it is a much for themselves as is it for the audience. They feel the music first, they never just put on a show.

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Located at the top of the Amphitheater Hill

Keeping Seminole Heritage

You’ll be greeted at the Seminole Family Camp with a traditional Che-han-tah-mo? (How are you?) and a welcome to the Ee-toh-lit-kee (Seminole Family Camp) and the Cheekee-chobee (Big Chickee) Performance Stage. Thank you to the Seminole Tribe of Florida for their generous contribution to construct a much larger Seminole Family Camp now located near the Craft Square.

In 1771, John Stuart, an agent of the British Government, was the first to use the term in writing, when he referred to the Creeks of East Florida as Seminoles. Soon, the name was used to indicate all of Florida’s Native American people.

Today, an estimated 2,700 Seminole and Miccosukee people live in Florida. The Seminole Tribe of Florida has about 2,200 members, and the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida Indians has about 500 members. Some still build chickees and wear patchwork clothing derived from traditional styles.

At the Florida Folk Festival, you”ll see wonderful examples of traditional Seminole crafts, including:

Nancy Shore will demonstrate Patchwork Sewing - The women artisans of the Seminole adapt textile arts to suit traditional functions and changing needs. Patchwork is the process of sewing pieces of cloth into rows of designs, joined to make garments. Seminole women use the sewing machine to evoke fire, rain or storm in traditional patterns.

Beadwork - Contemporary Seminole beadwork necklaces, belts and sashes use nylon thread, an odd (never even) number of beads and a ten-inch loom.

D’Anna Osceola, Raina Robinson and Janelle Leitner

will explain why.

Onnie Osceola will demonstrate traditional Seminole arts and crafts.

Martha Jones will demonstrate the Seminole unique dollmaking tradition. The dolls are made of palmetto fibers, hand sewn to create the head and body, and dressed in traditional Seminole costumes.

Basketry - Seminole basketry, as it exists today, features old and new traditions, the use of native materials and the influence of other cultural groups. Malcolm Jones will demonstrate the two distinct types of basketry–coiled and twilled. Seminoles make coiled baskets for the tourist trade from sweetgrass, which grows in open palmetto-covered fields. Artisans coil the bundles of grass and sew them together with embroidery thread. The bottom of the basket is usually made of palmetto fiber. Twilled baskets were once made of cane but are now made using split palmetto stems, a more readily available material. Palmetto-stem baskets, now almost obsolete, are used in pounding corn to separate meal from hard kernels.

Traditional Seminole Foods - Food sources in Seminole folklore include game meat such as deer, turtle and fish, and vegetables such as corn, beans, sweet potatoes and squash. Of these, corn is the most meaningful and frequently used. One product is sofkee, a cold beverage made of corn by combining hominy meal (hulled corn) with boiling water then allowing the drink to cool. In Seminole frybread, a batter mixture is fried in hot grease in a flat-bottomed pot over an open fire. Mollie Jolly, Charlotte Burgess and Cantinna King will demonstrate Seminole cooking traditions.

Luis Venzor will demonstrate the Seminole tradition of wood carving.

Nathan “Skeeter” Bowers will demonstrate the Seminole tradition of chickee thatching

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The Sacred Steel Summit: A Visionary Tale

By John Leopold

What happens when you mix a nearly 100-year-old sacred music tradition, add talent from across the region and up the eastern seaboard, and mix in guests from Florida, Tennessee, and Georgia with the nation’s oldest state-sponsored folk festival? The 2024 Scared Steel Summit at the Florida Folklife Festival!

Conceived by Alvin Lee, a founding member of the Lee Boys, an internationally recognized tradition-bearing sacred steel group out of Kissimmee Florida, the Sacred Steel Summit brings together musicians to share techniques and enthrall new audiences and aficionados. “We have assembled the greatest tradition bearers of pedal steel and lap steel guitars from within the Sacred Steel tradition,” says Alvin Lee, “People will be educated and entertained by this unique American gospel tradition.”

The Sacred Steel Summit is part of the Florida Folklife program. It will present three days of presentations about the history of the musical tradition, workshops with innovators of the sacred steel tradition, performance workshops showcasing the styles with the major houses of worship, and evening concert performances with the Living Legends of the genre and the brightest emerging talent.

History

The House of God (Keith Dominion) and the Church of the Living God, (Jewel Dominion) are African American Holiness Pentecostal churches that share a common founder. Both are national organizations with a strong presence in Florida, and both are homes to sacred steel guitar music.

In the House of God, members of the congregation began playing sacred music on the electric steel guitar in the late 1930s. The foundations for the sacred steel guitar tradition were laid by Willie Eason, Rev. Henry Nelson, and Lorenzo Harrison. Eason had a direct influence on Nelson, who was Eason’s brother-in-law, and Lorenzo Harrison. Nelson became the most influential guitarist in Keith Dominion churches. Harrison was the most influential steel player in Jewel Dominion churches. Electric steel guitar music quickly became an integral part of the services, conventions, and revivals of these two sects.

The steel guitar allows the player to vary the pitch of notes at will because the steel guitarist is not limited by notes determined by frets. Pitches on the steel guitar are determined by a metal bar that the guitarist places on the strings to “stop” the strings and make musical notes. An accomplished player can use unrestricted vibrato, execute sustained notes of increasing or decreasing pitch, and color notes by other techniques not available to the player of a standard fretted guitar. The properties of the instrument make it well-suited for African American sacred music.

Today, with more than twenty congregations throughout the state, Florida is a stronghold for the House of God and Church of the Living God, where musicians have passed down the unique musical tradition known as

“sacred steel” for generations. After over eighty years of evolution, the sacred steel guitar tradition has become a unique musical form characterized by distinctive guitar styles and repertoire.

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The Sacred Steel Summit: A Visionary Tale

Powering The Sacred Steel Summit Building on the history of Sacred Steel Conventions that began nearly 25 years ago, Alvin Lee and Sacred Music Traditions have rejuvenated the convening of Sacred Steel artists from Florida and beyond. They have invited the living innovators of the tradition along with steel guitarists who have emerged from the church and are successfully playing for secular audiences. The roster of artists will include guitarists who are in the Sacred Steel Hall of Fame.

Combining educational workshops with extraordinary performances, the Summit showcases the rich musical tradition with contemporary interpretations of the music. Florida folklorist Bob Stone, who has written extensively about the tradition and produced several albums of the music with Arhoolie Records, will share his treasure trove of photographs taken over 30 years documenting the tradition. Del Ray Grace will share information about the new Sacred Steel Museum and the growing Hall of Fame. Aubrey Ghent will demonstrate how he makes the guitar “sing” along with services.

The Sacred Steel Summit will provide a rare opportunity for the tradition bearers to play together and for festival attendees to participate in workshops to learn about the history of Sacred Steel from the artists who defined the sound. They will participate in technical workshops that will help decipher the tuning, use of the steel bar, and effects that contribute to the unique sound, and finally, they will play with younger musicians to help teach and mentor the next generation of tradition bearers.

Aubrey Ghent remains one of the most respected sacred steel guitar players. Born in Ft. Pierce in 1959, he began playing in Keith Dominion churches regularly at age nine and is recognized as a mature master of the tradition. Ghent’s sense of pitch, even in the upper registers, use of vibrato, and ability to manipulate the guitar’s volume and tone control knobs while picking are highly developed, enabling him to imitate the human voice. He often strives to make his guitar sound “like a female opera singer.”

Calvin Cooke as a resident of Georgia, is one of the most influential musicians in the House of God. Only the best are selected to play at the church’s annual National Assembly and he played for over 40 years as a regular steel guitarist there. Cooke was born in 1944 in Cleveland, OH into a musical Jewell Dominion family and brought the influence of Jewell musicians to the Keith Dominion when he joined around 1958. He is one of the few sacred steelers who regularly combine singing with their guitar work.

Chuck Campbell is the musician responsible for introducing the pedal-steel guitar to House of God services in the early 1970s. While many steel guitarists in the church still prefer the older lap steel, the pedal guitar has become the choice of younger musicians, and Chuck is their greatest influence. Not only did Chuck introduce a new instrument and its expanded musical capabilities to House of God services, but he also brought musical influences from secular sources and used electronic effects extensively.

Maurice “Ted” Beard, a retired postal worker from a suburb of Detroit, served as the chief musician at the House of God’s annual General Assembly, held at the 2,500-seat auditorium of the mother church in Nashville, Tennessee. Among musicians and congregations, Beard is respected as a senior steel guitarist and valued as a patient teacher. He grew up in the Jewell Dominion and brought influences from that sect’s music, which is generally slower and more melodic than the Keith Dominion’s, to House of God services.

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The Sacred Steel Summit: A Visionary Tale

“We want to bring musical guests from outside the Sacred Steel tradition to participate to show the broad impact that this music has had outside the four walls of a church.” says founder Alvin Lee.

Florida blues phenome Selwyn Birchwood will join this year’s Summit to share the impact Sacred Steel has had on his guitar playing. Last year Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi shared the stage with the Living Legends in honor of the role Sacred Steel has played in shaping their musical careers.

The Sacred Steel Summit is in the southeast corner of the Florida Folklife Festival. Admission to the festival includes access to all the workshops and concerts at the Summit. Don’t miss this rare chance to see some of the most powerful and soulful interpreters of the Sacred Steel tradition. Join us at the Sacred Steel Summit and enjoy getting swept away with music that will lift your spirits and cause you to dance and sing.

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10:0011:20 AM

Sacred Steel Stage

Friday Saturday Sunday

The Tradition of Sacred Steel Hosted by Alvin Lee: Tim Williams, Kashiah Hunter, Antjuan Edwards, Dontrail Wright, others

10:0011:15 AM

The Young Guns of Sacred Steel Part 1: Hosted by Keshiah Hunter: Makyha King, Sean Lewis, Micheal Broom, Bro. Choo, Miles Hoyt & others 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Seeking the Spirit with Sacred Steel: Ceremony worship, and Recognition, Appreciation and Acknowledgments

1:002:30 PM

Sacred Steel meets Jazz Hosted by: Tommy Phillips Jr & Jermaine "Tank"

Jennings: Terrel King, Dante Harmon, Aaron Hines, & Others 1:002:00 PM

Bringing in Heavenly Sounds with Sacred Steel: Hosted by Mitch Fonville: BryanTaylor, Durel Randolph, Timothy Taylor, Dominic Collins, Dontrail Wright & others

2:30 PM4:00 PM Stage Closed to Re-set 2:30 - 3:00 PM

4:004:45 PM

5:005:45 PM

1:452:45 PM

Making a Joyful Sound with Marcus Randolph, Durel Randolph, & others

The Young Guns of Sacred Steel Part 2: Hosted by Marcus Randolph: Jamichael Smith, Jamaal Johnson, Jack Shealy, Terrence Brinson, Terrence Carl Brinson Jr., Dwight Lewis & others 2:45 PM3:45 PM Stage Closed to Re-set

A Look at Sacred Steel from the Outside of the Church: Dan Tyack, Eric Lewis, Chad Cox, Selwyn Birchwood & Others 3:00 PM3:45 PM Stage Closed to Re-set

Give a Hand for the Band: Hosted by Phil Campbell and the Campbell Brothers 3:45 - 4:30PM Sacred Steel Summit: National Anthem Challenge Hosted by Alvin Lee

5:45 PM7:00 PM Stage Closed to Re-set 4:30 PM6:40 PM Stage Closed to Re-set 5:00 PM6:30 PM Stage Closed to Re-set

7:007:20 PM Elton Noble and the Noble Boys 6:40-7:00 pm Fran Grace & Kim Love 6:307:00 PM Oh Atlanta: Keshiah Hunter and the ATL Crew

7:308:00 PM Terrel Kings and the 4 T's 7:107:30 PM Ted Beard and Family 7:107:30 PM Dante Harmon, Tim Williams, Tommy Phillips , Terrel King

8:108:40 PM Dante Harmon & Company 7:408:00 PM Aubrey Ghent 7:408:00 PM Dan Tyack, Eric Lewis, Aaron Hines and Others

8:509:20 PM Anthony Fox 8:108:55PM The Campbell Brothers 8:108:30 PM Instruments of Music with Gary "Fatman" McKinney

9:3010:00 PM David Fonville 9:059:25PM Calvin Cooke 8:40 - 9:00 PM

10:00 PM Stage Closed - See You Next Year! 9:3010:00 PM Selwyn Birchwood Honors Sacred Steel 9:00 PM Stage Closed - See You Next Year! 3:455:00 PM Sacred Steel All Out Jam

Finale with The Leeboys with the Legends of Sacred Steel

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11:30 AM12:00 PM The Role of Instruments in Praise Music with Dante Harmon 11:30 AM 12:15 PM History of Sacred Steel in Florida with Bob Stone 12:1512:45 PM All In The Family: Ted Beard with Fatman

12:10 - 12:45 PM Two Left Hands with Anthony Fox & David Fonville 12:15 - 12:45 PM Singing guitar workshop with Aubrey Ghent & Terrel King) 1:001:30PM Table Talk - the Future of Sacred Steel with Alvin Lee

12:45 PMStage Re-opens 12:45 pm12:45 PM Stage Re-opens 3:00 pm1:30 PMStage Re-opens 3:00 pm

2:45 - 3:15 PM The Reach of Sacred Steel Music with John Leopold 3:00 - 3:30 PM Del Ray Grace: Introducing The Sacred Steel Museum 3:003:30PM Chuck Campbell - The Role of support for the Steel Guitar

3:154:00 PM Finding the Groove: Sacred Steel Clinic with Frank Owens 3:30 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PMStage Re-opens Saturday Morning4:00 PM 4:00 PM

Elaine McGrath

Festival Director 2006 -2024

Thank you for our memories…

Under your leadership as Director of the Florida Folk Festival, we the Stage and Hospitality volunteers, have been able to contribute to the traditions of our beloved Florida Folk Festival.

We appreciate the opportunities to introduce and assist performers on stage. We appreciate the chance to offer hospitality and moments of respite to performers and other Festival friends.

It has been a privilege to be part of your team. We wish you a fulfilling and joyful retirement.

Go forward and make your Dreams come true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shauna Adams

Liz Pardue Apolonio

David Baucum

Dave Belcher

Dave Brightbill

Joseph Brightbill

Jerry Lawrence Bullard

Kip Carpenter

Chip Carter

Betty Cutchens

Cindy Feistel

Tony Feistel

Don Forgione

Bob Ganley

Grant Gelhardt

Jackie Pardue Goldfinger

Barb Harless

Danielle Jennings

Scott Kessler

Charlotte Kendall

Steve Morgan

Brad Muller

Lois Nathan

Joseph Olmstead

Annie Orlando

Carolyn Pardue

Howard Pardue

Mark Schmidter

Joe Waller

Katie Warner-Waller

John Willis

Karlia Willis

Luci Willis

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Sacred

Sacred Steel

Sacred Steel Workshop Friday Saturday Sunday

Stage Re-opens Sunday Afternoon Stage Closed - See You Next Year!

Steel Workshop

Workshop

Friday, May 24

5:30 PM Stage Opens 5:45 pm

5:45 PM Opening Ceremonies

6:00 PM

6:30 PM

6:45 PM

7:00 PM

7:30 PM

8:00 PM

Bullard Brothers and Friends

Friday Schedule

Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration with Grant Peeples

Stage Re-Opens 8:00 pm

Raymi Dance School

Bob Patterson

8:15 PM The Carr Sisters

9:00 PM

9:30 PM

9:45 PM

Bing Futch

Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band

10:30 PM The Lee Boys

Documentary Film"Gamble Rogers: Down at the Terminal Tavern" with introduction by William Sykes

Stage Re-Opens 6:00 pm

Isa y el Combo Machete

Family and Beginners Contra Dance Instruction with Andy Kane and Otemeal Karibbean Groove

Family and Beginners Contra Dance with Otemeal, Andy Kane Calling

Stage Re-opens Saturday Morning

Contra Dance with Lloyd Baldwin and Friends, Tom Greene Calling

Contra Dance with The Little Mercies, Drew Thomas Calling

Stage Re-Opens Saturday Morning

Stage Re-Opens 7:00 pm

Open Mic. Hosted by the Will McLean Foundation

Stage Re-opens Saturday Morning

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Amphitheater Gamble Rogers StageHeritage StageOld Marble StageWill

Stage

McClean

Friday Schedule

Friday, May 24 Gamble Rogers Heritage & Dance Old Marble PawPaw River Gazebo Seminole Will McLean

10:00 AM Stage Opens 10:30 am Cross Creek Cloggers Stage Opens 10:30 a.m. Julian/Cherkinsky Band Stage Opens 10:30 am

10:30 AM Bottom Dollar Trio Harmonic Motion Middle Eastern Music and Dance Passerine Raisin' Cane Scott Jackson

11:00 AM Emmett Carlisle Siempro FlamencoPaco & Celia Fonta

Stage Opens 11:30 am

Jerry Mincey with Tony Macaluso and Bob Bronar Crucial Eddy and Uncanny Valley Ashley Feller Bubbles Brown

Stage Opens at 1:00 pm

11:30 AM Alivia Hunter Hot Pepper Steppers with Runaway Biscuits Frank Lindamood Art Crummer John R. ButlerIn Good Company

12:00 PM Lucky Mud Raymi Dance School Lloyd Baldwin & Friends Rural Route 2 Jim Bickerstaff J.Robert - Florida Fiddler

12:30 PM Mark SmithRemedy Tree The McLaughlins Grant Livingston Wild Shiners Allen Shadd and Kristen Holloway

1:00 PM Heart Strings Joe Bone Chuck Hardwicke and The Hart Line Ric Edmiston Lisa Thomas Lauren Heintz Mel and Vinnie

1:30 PM Patchwork The Little Mercies Zapen & Douglass Jenny and The Stray Dogs Kim LeCouteur Southern Journey The Chicken Parade

2:00 PM Bear and Robert Walter Parks The Byrne Brothers Mike Jurgensen TellemTall Uncle Mosie The Front Porch Backsteppers

2:30 PM The Dunehoppers Lee Hunter & Joey Kerr Paddy League and Miss Mango Snaky Woods Grant PeeplesJane Fallon Del Suggs

3:00 PM Ron and Bari The Firewater Tent Revival The New 76ers Paul Smithson The Florida Boys Kindling

3:30 PM The Wire BirdsLonesome Ride The Deux Francois Band St. Pete Shanties Snaky Woods Jeanie Fitchen

4:00 PM Holt and Cabe Sarah McCulloch Rachel Grubb Joe Mark Jerry Mincey with Tony Macaluso and Bob Bronar Dim Lights

Stage Re-Opens Tomorrow Morning

4:30 PM Shana Smith The Peyton Brothers Mimi and The HearnDogs Don Grooms Band Chris Kahl

5:00 PM Ben Prestage The Currys

Stage Closed to Reset

5:30 PM Isa y el Combo Machete

Stage Re-Opens Tomorrow Morning

Stage Closed to Reset Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration with Grant Peeples

Stage Re-Opens Tomorrow Morning

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Friday May 24

10:00 AM

Friday Schedule

Kids Crafts and Activities Stage Opens 11:00 am

Area Opens 11:00 am

Beginning Old Time Banjo with Clay Black, Ron Whisler & Pam Monfore

Gotson

10:30 AM Semi no le H unti ng a nd Tra ppi ng Daniel Tommie

11:00 AM

Unusual Old Time Instruments with Bob Murphy Haitian Culture with Just The Way It Was

Old Time Music Jam with Lloyd Baldwin and Friends

11:30 AM

Instant

Songwriting with Del Suggs

Old Time Jam led by Debby Sue Gilman

The Rivers in us

reek Fo lk Musi c Apprenti ceshi p Tea m Panayotis, Violet, and Jasmine League

12:00 PM Carol Mahler Bo li

Kids Crafts and Activities

Mountain Dulcimer Jam with Laurie Alsobrook

Alternative Tuning Fiddle Tunes with Carol Whisler

Chipana

12:30 PM Backintyme Wo o dturni ng Ralph Callendar and David Freundlich

1:00 PM

All - songs about Florida Rivers with Jeanie Fitchen

Celtic Fiddle

Ong o i ng

Kids and Family Dance Workshop with Andy Kane and Otemeal

Tale Tellers of St. Augustine

Florida Songs Jam with Emmett Carlisle

Workshop with The Deux Francois Band

Old Time Jam led by Carol Whisler

1:30 PM Iri sh Musi c Apprenti ceshi p Tea m Paul Groff and Friends

2:00 PM The Storytelling Sims

2:30 PM Disney Songs & More with Bing Futch VGO

3:00 PM Dulcimer Patting Zoo with Laurie Alsobrook StoryDogs

3:30 PM Discover the Dulcimer with Laurie Alsobrook Chris Kastle

Chanting to The Open Heart with Shana Smith

Recording with Jim Bickerstaff

Florida Fiddle Tunes with Lloyd Baldwin

Ka rri bea n G ro o ve (Accoustic Set)

D emo nstra ti o ns: Woodturning, Broommaking, Cuban Guitar Building, Bolivian Food, Greek Instruments, Irish Instruments, Seminiole Hunting Traditions, Haitian Food, Mayan Weaving

Cracker Cowman

Songs and Stories with Chuck Hardwicke

Alternative Tuning Fun with Kim LeCouteur

Old Time Jam led by Clay Black

ri da Fo lk Festi va l Archi ves Florida Memory

H a i ti a n Fo o dwa ys

Apprenti ceshi p Tea m

Liliane Louis and Marie Romaine Desir

Ma ya n Ba ck stra p Wea vi ng

4:00 PM Deborah Lyn Thompson

4:30 PM

Fun Circle and Square Dance Workshop with Hot Pepper Steppers and Runaway Biscuits

Stage Re-Opens Tomorrow Morning

Stephen Foster

Songs Jam with Backintyme

Songwriting Songs of Florida Workshop with Grant Livingston

Old Time Singing Circle led by Kellie Allen & Pete Petersen

Apprenti ceshi p Tea m Concepcion Poou Coy Tharin and Lorelai Tharin

Sa cred Steel Sho wca se: Dontrail Wright

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Children's Area Tower Jam Tent Workshop I Workshop II Folklife Stage Folklife Demonstrations

The Sto ry o f D evi l's Mi llho pper Heather

TellemTall C uba n Tres G ui ta rs Leandro Rojas

vi a n Qui no a Ana

Af ri

ca n Ameri ca n Rura l Fo lk li f e Danny Sylvester

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Schedule

5:30 PM Opening/Fiddle Contest Winners Bubbles Brown Romeo's Tassa Kidz

Stage Re-Opens 6:30 pm

6:00 PM Passerine Cortadito

Jerry Mincey with Tony Macaluso and Bob Bronar

Stage Re-Opens 8:00 p.m.

6:30 PM Papaloko & Loray Mistik 6:45 PM 7:00 PM 7:30 PM 8:00

The Peyton Brothers Jon & Zelton Kay

The Young Guns of Sacred Steel Dodo Awoko Ben Prestage Walter Parks

The Firewater Tent Revival

Documentary Film"Gamble Rogers: Down at the Terminal Tavern" with introduction by William Sykes

Beginners Contra Dance Workshop with Vicki Morrison and Joe Bone

Stage Closed to Reset

Stage Re-opens Sunday Morning

Beginners Contra Dance Workshop with Vicki Morrison and Joe Bone

Open Mic. Hosted by The Will McLean Foundation

Contra Dance with Lonesome Ride, Andy Kane, Calling

Stage Re-opens Sunday Morning

Caribbean Rhythms Dance with Karibbean Groove

Stage Re-opens Sunday Morning

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Saturday

Saturday May 25 Amphitheater Gamble RogersHeritage & Dance Old Marble Will McLean

PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM Folk

9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:15 PM 10:45 PM 11:00 PM 11:30 PM

PM 8:15

Heritage Award Winners Recognition

Schedule

10:00 AM Grant Livingston Kim LeCouteurEmmett Carlisle Rural Route 2 Joe Mark

10:30 AM Alivia HunterJohn R. ButlerMel and Vinnie Julian/Cherkinsky Band Frank Lindamood

11:00 AM Lonesome Ride Allen Shadd and Kristen Holloway Jim Bickerstaff Joe Bone Paul Smithson

11:30 AM Art Cummer BandWild Shiners Ashley Feller Kindling The Byrne Brothers

12:00 PM J.Robert - Florida Fiddler Chuck Hardwicke and The Hart Line Bob Patterson In Good Company The Deux Francois Band

12:30 PM Del Suggs and Friends Uncle Mosie Ron and Bari Backintyme Raisin' Cane

1:00 PM Jeanie FitchenThe New 76ers Rachel GrubbThe Chicken Parade Don Grooms Band

Florida State Fiddle Contest conducted by The Florida State Fiddlers Association

1:30 PM Bullard Brothers and Friends Grant PeeplesMark Smith The Dunehoppers Lloyd Baldwin & Friends

2:00 PM 2PM The Little Mercies Green Grass Revival The Wire Birds Brett Wellman & "Dangerous" Dave Messler

2:30 PM Crucial Eddy and Uncanny Valley Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band Chris Kahl Dim Lights Bear and Robert

3:00 PM Shana Smith Lucky Mud Bottom Dollar Duo St. Pete Shanties

3:30 PM Jenny and the Stray Dogs Jane Fallon Zapen and DouglassSouthern Journey

4:00 PM Stage Closed to Reset The Carr Sisters The Florida Boys The Front Porch Backsteppers Mimi and The HearnDogs

4:30 PM Lee Hunter & Joey Kerr Sarah McCulloch Otemeal Holt and Cabe

Stage Re-Opens Sunday Morning

5:00 PM Bing Futch Remedy Tree Patchwork Snaky Woods

5:30 PM Bubbles Brown Romeo's Tassa Kidz Heart Strings

6:00 PM Passerine Cortadito

6:30 PM Stage Re-Opens 8:00 p.m. Papaloko & Loray Mistik Del Suggs and Grant Livingston

Stage Re-Opens Sunday Morning

Jerry Mincey with Tony Macaluso and Bob Bronar

Stage Re-Opens Sunday Morning Stage Closed to Reset

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Saturday

Saturday May

Gamble Rogers Old Marble PawPaw River Gazebo Seminole Will McLean

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

12:00 PM

12:30 PM 1:00 PM

1:30 PM

Saturday Schedule

Kids Crafts and Activities

An Interactive Musical Journey Through Florida with Jeanie Fitchen

Dancing A Story with Liliane Louis and Ketsia TheodorePharel

Beginners Harmonica for Kids with Joan Alderman (Harmonicas provided)

Kids Crafts and Activities

2:00 PM The American Songbook with Joey Kerr

2:30 PM

Singing with Shape-Notes with Rachel Speer, Dean Jens and Calvin Jens

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

Kids Crafts and Activities

Kazoo Jam for Kids with Mike Potters. Bring along your harmonica and join in. (Kazoos provided)

Blues Jam with Brett Wellman

Anything Goes Jam with Bear and Robert

Bluegrass Jam with Remedy Tree

Old Time Jam with Mountain Dulcimer with Bing Futch

Area Opens 11am

Cumbias and Chichas with Isa y el Machete

Beginning Old Time Banjo with Clay Black, Ron Whisler & Pam Monfore

Old Time Jam led by Pam Monfore

Yodeling Fun with Lucky Mud

Dance Callers Workshop"Opening the Door to Dance with Andy Kane

Celtic Jam with Deux Francois

Songs of the Sea with Chris Kastle

Kathryn Belle Long Memorial Jam with Elizabeth Fravel and Raisin' Cane

Musical Saw with Tim Martin

Showcase: The Baldwin Family - Inslee, Brent & Scott Baldwin

Old Time Jam led by Debby Sue Gilman

Showcase: Banjo GirlsLinda Pottberg, Marg Chauvin, Ellen Stahl & Anne Emborsky, Tamera Beisler

Visit the Florida Remembered Area near the Old Marble Stage for ongoing demonstrations 10a.m - 5 p.m. See the Florida Remembered section of the festival program for a list and description of workshops

Creative Aging with Jon Kay

Beginners Mountain Dulcimer with Laurie Alsobrook

Old Time Jam led by Tamera Beisler

Old Time Singing Circle led by Kellie Allen & Pete Peterson

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Saturday May 25 Children's Area Jam Tent Workshop IWorkshop II FL Remembered

Saturday Schedule

Saturday May 25 Folklife Stage Folklife Demonstrations Heritage & Dance Tower

10:00 AM Af rican American Rural Fo lk lif e Danny Sylvester

10:30 AM The Sto ry o f D evil's Millho pper Heather Gotson

11:00 AM Cuban Tres G uitars

Hot Pepper Steppers with the Runaway Biscuits La Casita Hispaniola

Paco and Celia Fonta Siempre Flamenco Lisa Thomas

Leandro Rojas Cross Creek Cloggers

11:30 AM Irish Music Apprenticeship Team Paul Groff and Shauna O'Hara Raymi Dance School

Tale Tellers of St. Augustine

12:00 PM Bo livian Quino a Ana Chipana Harmonic Motion Middle Eastern Music and Dance TellemTall

12:30 PM Wo o dturning

Ralph Callendar and David Freundlich Sacred Harp Shape-Note Singers VGO

1:00 PM G reek Fo lk Music Apprenticeship Team

1:30 PM

2:00 PM

Panayotis, Violet, and Jasmine League Carol Mahler

Mayan Back strap Weaving Apprenticeship Team

Sarah McCullo ch (Accoustic Set)

Ongoing Demonstrations: Woodturning, Broommaking, Cuban Guitar Building, Bolivian Food, Greek Instruments, Irish Instruments, Seminiole Hunting Traditions, Haitian Food, Mayan Weaving

Jim Stafford

Concepcion Poou Coy Tharin and Lorelai Tharin Chris Kastle

Haitian Culture with Just The Way It Was Storydogs

2:30 PM Plena Es Deborah Lyn Thompson

3:00 PM Flo rida Fo lk Festival Archives Florida Memory Paddy League and Miss Mango The Storytelling Sims

3:30 PM Semino le H unting and Trapping Daniel Tommie Lili Forbes & the Funky TatersLauren Heintz

4:00 PM H aitian H erbs

Liliane Louis and Marie Romaine Desir Karibbean Groove Scott Jackson

4:30 PM Sacred Steel Sho wcase: Frank Owens Isa y el Combo Machete Ric Edmiston

5:00 PM The Currys The McLaughlins

Stage Re-Opens Sunday Morning

5:30 PM

Stage Re-Opens Sunday Morning

Stage Re-Opens 6:30 pm Stage Re-Opens Sunday Morning

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Sunday Schedule

Sunday, May 26 Amphitheater Gamble RogersHeritage & DanceWill McLean

6:00 PM Banjo Contest Winners/Folkartist Memorial Zapen & Douglass

6:30 PM Passerine

7:00 PM 7:15 PM 7:30 PM

8:00 PM

8:30 PM

2PM Band The Living Legends of Sacred Steel

Stage Re-Opens 8:00 pm

Gamble Rogers –Homegrown Philosophy, a Live Performance video

Contra Dance with Jenny and the Stray Dogs, Tom Greene, Calling

Stage Re-Opens 7:00 pm

Contra Dance with Hot Pepper Steppers and Runaway Biscuits, Vicki Morrison, Calling

Haitain Voodo Pop Dance With Papaloko & Loray Mistik The Byrne Brothers The Currys

8:45 PM Sarah McCulloch 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:15 PM 11:00 PM 11:30 PM

Festival Finale with Jeanie Fitchen and Friends

Stage Closed - See You Next Year!

Contra Dance with Southern Journey, Andy Kane, Calling

Open Mic. Hosted by the Will McLean Foundation

Stage Closed - See You Next Year!

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Sunday Schedule

Sunday May 26

10:00 AM The Sto ry o f D evil's Millho pper Heather Gotson Cross Creek Cloggers Stage Opens 10:30 a.m.

10:30 AM Semino le H unting and Trapping Daniel Tommie Raymi Dance School Chris Kastle

11:00 AM Wo o dturning

Ralph Callendar and David Freundlich

11:30 AM H aitian H erbs

Romeo's Tassa Kidz

Liliane Louis and Marie Romaine Desir Paco and Celia Fonta Siempre Flamenco

12:00 PM Bo livian Quino a Ana Chipana Hot Pepper Steppers with Runaway Biscuits Haitian Culture with Just The Way It Was

12:30 PM Cuban Tres G uitars Leandro Rojas Harmonic Motion Middle Eastern Music and Dance VGO

1:00 PM G reek Fo lk Music

Panayotis, Violet, and Jasmine League Sacred Harp Shape Note Singers The Storytelling Sims

1:30 PM Irish Music

Ongoing Demonstrations: Woodturning, Broommaking, Cuban Guitar Building, Bolivian Food, Greek Instruments, Irish Instruments, Seminiole Hunting Traditions, Haitian Food, Mayan Weaving

Paul Groff and Shauna O'Hara Isa y el Combo Machete Carol Mahler

2:00 PM Dodo Awoko Storydogs

Lili Fo rbes (Accoustic Set) until 2:45pm

2:30 PM Paddy League and Miss Mango Deborah Lyn Thompson

3:00 PM Flo rida Fo lk Festival Archives Florida Memory The Firewater Tent Revival TellemTall

3:30 PM Af rican American Rural Fo lk lif e Danny Sylvester The Lee Boys Jane Fallon

4:00 PM

Mayan Back strap Weaving Concepcion Poou Coy Tharin and Lorelai Tharin Lili Forbes & the Funky Taters The Deux Francois Band

4:30 PM Sacred Steel Sho wcase: Tommy Phillips Ben Prestage Heart Strings

5:00 PM

5:30 PM

Stage Closed - See You Next Year!Area Closed - See You Next Year! Tale Tellers of St. Augustine

Stage Re-Opens 6:00 pm Stage Closed - See You Next Year!

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Folklife Stage Folklife Demonstrations Heritage Stage

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Sunday Schedule

10:00 AM In Good Company Joe Mark Scott Jackson Stage Opens at 10:30 a.m. Grant Livingston Jane Fallon

10:30 AM Holt and CabePlena EsRachel Grubb Lisa Thomas Art Crummer BandThe Dunehoppers

11:00 AM Otemeal Cortadito The Front Porch Backsteppers Chuck Hardwicke and The Hart Line Lonesome RideKim LeCouteur

11:30 AM Jim Bickerstaff Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band Bottom Dollar Duo J.Robert - Florida Fiddler Paul SmithsonJohn R. Butler

12:00 PM Del Suggs and Friends Don Grooms Band The Chicken Parade The Carr Sisters Snaky Woods Wild Shiners

12:30 PM Ashley Feller Karibbean Groove Lloyd Baldwin & Friends Bullard Brothers and Friends Frank Lindamood Remedy Tree

1:00 PM The Little MerciesSt. Pete ShantiesJeanie Fitchen Rural Route 2 Jenny and the Stray Dogs Uncle Mosie

1:30 PM

Brett Wellman & "Dangerous" Dave Messler Bob Patterson Lee Hunter & Joey Kerr

Jerry Mincey with Tony Macaluso and Bob Bronar Raisin' Cane The New 76ers

2:00 PM Jim Stafford Dim LightsShana Smith Emmett CarlisleThe Wire Birds

2:30 PM Green Grass Revival Kindling Bear and RobertChris Kahl Julian/Cherkinsky Band

3:00 PM Mark Smith Alivia HunterBubbles Brown

3:30 PM Southern Journey Crucial Eddy and Uncanny Valley Joe Bone

4:00 PM Ron and Bari Lucky Mud Backintyme

4:30 PM Lauren Heintz Patchwork Mimi and The HearnDogs Grant Peeples

5:00 PM Mel and VinnieBing Futch Ric Edmiston The Florida Boys

Stage Closed - See you next year!

5:30 PM The McLaughlins

Stage Closed - See You Next Year Jon and Zelton Kay Banjo Contest Hosted by the Florida Banjo Society Jeanie Fitchen and Mark Smith Stage Closed - See You Next Year! Walter Parks

Allen Shadd and Kristen Holloway

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Sunday May 26 Gamble Rogers

Marble

Seminole Will McLean

10:00 AM 10:30 AM 11:00 AM Florida Songs for Children with Chris Kahl

11:30 AM "Turtles and Gators and Spoonbills, Oh My" with Chris Kastle

12:00 PM Music and Fun with Shana Banana

12:30 PM 1:00 PM 1:30 PM

Kids Activities and Crafts

Sunday Schedule

Florida Shanties Singing Session with St. Pete Shanties

The Culture, Tradition, Food, Music and Languages of Haiti and the Dominican Republic with La Casita Hispaniola

Story Swap with Carol Mahler

Florida Songs Jam with Pete Gallagher

Bluegrass Jam with Lonesome Ride

Dulcimer Workshop with Jon and Zelton Kay

Pete Seeger and Will McLean Songs and Stories with Mel and Vinnie

Stagecraft: Tips and Secrets of a Veteran Touring Singer Songwriter with Grant Peeples Area Opens 11am

2:00 PM Songs by Animals for Animals with Grant Livingston

2:30 PM Carnaval in Peru with Silvia Huddleston and Genesis Somoza

3:00 PM

Kids Activities and Crafts

3:30 PM 4:00 PM 4:30 PM Area Closed - See You Next Year!

Celtic Jam Session with The McLaughlins

Folk Medicine Workshop with Liliane Louis and Marie Moncy

Beginning Old Time Banjo with Clay Black, Ron Whisler & Pam Monfore

Shape-Note Social with the Sacred Harp Shape-Note Singers Open Jam

Tips For Submitting a Successful Application Festival Application - Q&A

Writing Songs In The Company of Zora Neale Hurston with Paddy League

Old Time Jam led by Pam & Ray Monfore

Old Time Rags Workshop with Bob Murphy & Greg Allen

Old Time Jam led by Bobby Lolley

Showcase: Ayres of PromiseTroy, Sarah, Elizabeth & Grace

Visit the Florida Remembered Area near the Old Marble Stage for ongoing demonstrations 10 a.m - 5 p.m. See the Florida Remembered section of the festival program for a list and description of workshops

Old Time Jam led by Elizabeth Ayres

Old Time Singing Circle led by Kellie Allen & Pete Peterson

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Sunday May 26 Children's Area Jam Tent Workshop IWorkshop II FL Remembered

Performers & Group Members

2PM Band - Contemporary folk originals and covers, featuring pristine 3-part harmonies: Pete Price, Pete Hennings, Mike Jurgensen

Alivia Hunter - Soulful modern folk inspired by history, mythology, and old folk tunes: Alivia Hunter

Allen Shadd and Kristen Holloway - Allen and Kristen perform songs ranging from fiddle tunes to classics: Allen Shadd, Kristen Holloway

Andy Kane - Square, contra and family dances to oldtime tunes: Andy Kane

Art Crummer - Bluesy originals, funny & poignant songs, fiddle, guitar, Dobro: Art Crummer, Patsy Murray, Alan Hill

Ashley Feller - A Fl songwriter who brings her adventures to life through her songs: Ashley Feller

Backintyme - 19th century songs and stories: Frank W Sweet, Mary Lee Sweet, Martha Hotz, Tim Martin, Steve Catania

Bear and Robert - Award winning Folk, Blues and Americana duo with a certain Jenais Se Quois! : Cindy Bear, Franc Robert

Ben Prestage - high-energy one-man band: Ben Prestage

Bing Futch - Mountain dulcimer folk-rock: passionate, humorous, and energetic! : Bing Futch

Bob Patterson - Bob writes original music and stories about Florida: Bob Patterson, Carol Kramer

Bottom Dollar Duo - Old style country, folk, gospel duo, comedy and stuff: Fred (Butch) Burns, Brent Kittrell

Brett Wellman & “Dangerous” Dave Messler - Delta & Chicago style blues: Brett Wellman, Dave Messler

Bubbles Brown - Blues Folk Country Soul one man band: Christopher Brown

Bullard Brothers and Friends - Original Florida songs and traditional gospel.: Jerry Bullard, Johnny Bullard, Kerry Waldron, Amanda Bullard, Laura Bullard, Jason Baker, Clint Dockery, Shane Stewart, Katie Stewart

Carol Mahler - Florida Cracker, Florida African-American, and Florida Seminole Stories: Carol Mahler

Chris Kahl - Florida folk songs and stories with a sense of history and culture: Chris Kahl

Chris Kastle - Award-winning storyteller offering insight into a lifetime of adventure: Chris Kastle: guitar, penny whistle, percussion

Chuck Hardwicke & The Hart Line - Original Florida songs about the people, environment & history: Chuck Hardwicke, Dean Parrish, Karan Newman, Bill Snyder

Cortadito - 21st century traditional folk and country music from Cuba: Jose Elias, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, Alberto Pantaleon, Tony Perigo, Santiago McCook

Cross Creek Cloggers - Appalachian clogging to oldtime music: Sandy McGee, Trish Peterson, Piper Call, Nolan Hines, Julie Dicks, Eleta Sucsy, Dianne Harper, Denise Weber, Cheryl Miller, Sandra Noonan, Pete Sucsy, Kai Sucsy, Gary Zimmerman, Pat Stevens, Tim Stevens

Crucial Eddy and Uncanny Valley - Fireside songs of hope, heartache, highways and better days: Crucial Eddy Cotton, Nancy Lynch, David Lynch, John Peyton, Frank Lorenz

Deborah Lyn Thompson - Born & raised Floridian, tells Florida & around world true tales: Deborah Lyn Thompson

Del Suggs / Del Suggs and Friends - Guitar-driven songs about living the Florida life: Del Suggs, Chuck Parker, David Murphy, Michael Sautter

Dim Lights - 3 people playing wooden instruments and singing: Karan Newman, Tim Stevens, Ned Stewart

Dodo Awooko - Group Dodo Awoko showcases instruments & songs of Cote d’Ivoire West Africa: Martin Zagbo, Seguenon Kone, Amo Damas, Eric Bli Bi Gore, Saturnin Ba, Djian Tie

Don Grooms Band - Don Grooms’ Oringinal Band does songs as he performed them: Wayne Martin, Dennis Devine, Dan Peterson, Stan Geberer, Emerson Gravely, Art Crummer

Drew Thomas - Drew Thomas is a caller for old time contras, squares, and circles: Drew Thomas

Emmett Carlisle - Original song about Florida History, Environment and Characters: Emmett Carlisle

Frank Lindamood - Old time American music, traditional and original: Frank Lindamood

Grant Livingston - Florida songs with a sense of history and a sense of humor, swing guitar: Grant Livingston, Jonathan Hodge, Dan Peterson

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Grant Peeples - Guitar-slinging poet & truest of troubadours, Grant entertains & inspires: Grant Peeples

Green Grass Revival - Folk Songs of Florida’s people, history, ecology, spirit & culture: Pete Gallagher, Jack Piccalo, Foster Barnes, J. Robert Houghtaling, Bart Hanchey

Haitian Culture with Just The Way it Was - Just The way it was is committed to preserving and sharing Haitian culture: Liliane Louis

Harmonic Motion Middle Eastern Music and DanceHarmonic Motion Middle Eastern Music and Dance: Joe Zeytoonian, Myriam Eli

Heart Strings - Harp, guitar, banjo. Songs: Traditional, Florida, and more. Oh my! : Marg Chauvin, Bill Messer

Holt & Cabe - Brother duo from Southwest Florida perform their all-original story songs: Holt Oakley, Cabe Oakley

Hot Pepper Steppers with Runaway BiscuitsAppalachian style clogging performed to live old time string band music: Mary Allgire, Cassia Wagner, Drew Thomas, Heather Young, Rima Nathan, Cheyenne Alderson, April Denny, Shanice Richards, Rosalie Walsh, Myoko Inouye, Carrie Danielson, Chris Bittle, Bobby Lolley, Caitlin Murphy, Howard Pardue, Roger Eudy, Bronwyn Chelette

In Good Company - Original and Florida songs with great harmonies and instrumentation: Ingrid Schaper, Curtis Wayne Schaper, Lisa Bohn, Mike Worrall

Isa y el Combo Machete - Latin American song traditions - boleros, cumbias and sones: Isabel Ruano, Seth Hull, Jack Straub, Reo Morris

J.Robert - Florida Fiddler - New songs and stories from and old Florida Boy! : J.Robert

Jane Fallon - Songwriter and performer with a rich, smooth voice, and strong melodies: Jane Fallon

Jeanie Fitchen - traditional/contemporary/original topical and environmental songs: Jeanie Fitchen, Mark Billman, Will Ellis

Jenny and the Stray Dogs - rip-roarin’, foot-stompin’ old-time dances: Jenny James, Clay Black, Joe Donahue, Ron Gilbert, Jack Metzger

Jerry Mincey with Tony Macaluso and Bob BronarJerry’s original songs have been a part of the FFF since 2000: Jerry Mincey, Tony Macaluso, Bob Bronar

Jim Bickerstaff - Florida songs with stories of people and places from off the beaten path: Jim Bickerstaff

Jim Stafford - Florida Artist Hall of Fame Member and one of America’s most beloved artists: Jim Stafford, Kelly Black

Joe Bone - traditional, rural pioneer music: Bob Murphy, Greg Allen, Caitlin Murphy, Matthew Sabatella

Joe Mark - Florida and traditional songs sung and performed on guitar and fiddle: Joe Mark

John R. Butler - John R. Butler’s songs go for the belly laugh, not the chuckle: John R. Butler

Jon & Zelton Kay - Father son duo with hot licks: Jon Kay, Zelton Kay

Julian/Cherkinsky Band - Florida Folk with a hook in every song: Jordan Cherkinsky, Frank Julian, Ron Townsend, Tim Martin, Sean Curran

Karibbean Groove - A dynamic dance band that entertains its audiences with a Caribbean sound: Yajaida Aristhyl, Judes Albert, Michelson Aristhyl, Mikenson Pierre, Rickcene Ulysse, Emmanuel Jean

Kim LeCouteur - FL, songwriter shares her passion for Florida’s beauty and lore: Kim Lecouteur

Kindling - String band with fresh takes on old time classics: Chelsea Carnes, Virginia Carr, Tony Dickens, Arthur Rosales

La Casita Hispaniola (book/story) - Reading of a tale about the rich cultures of the Hispaniola Island: Yajaida Aristhyl, Michelson Aristhyl, Judes Albert, Mikenson Pierre, Rickcene Ulysse, Emmanuel Jean

Lauren Heintz - Two-time winner of the South Florida Folk Fest performing/song contest: Lauren Heintz

Laurie Alsobrook – dulcimer workshops, jams and childlren’s programs: Laurie Alsobrook, Jean Cunningham

Lee Hunter & Joey Kerr - Beautifully crafted original songs and clever takes on traditional fare: Lee Hunter, Joey Kerr, Landon Walker

Lili Forbes & the Funky ‘Taters - Original Caribbean and contemporary music: reggae, funk, jazz, & soul: Lili Forbes, Mike Lewis, Jan DeCosmo, Deanna Miller, Justin Barnes, Jordan Green, Chris Seepersaud, Tom Longfellow, Bill Landing, Rene Arbogast, Vonzel Reynolds

Lisa Thomas and Friends - Tradition bearing of Frank & Ann Thomas’s Florida songs: Lisa Thomas, Vgo, Rochelle Morris, Dora Anne

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Lloyd Baldwin and Friends - Songs and fiddle tunes in the old time Southern string band tradition: Lloyd Baldwin, Marion Lasley, Bill Martin, Joe Nelson, James Pittman, Richard Hardy

Lonesome Ride – bluegrass from the old to the new: Jack Piccalo, Fred Fortenberry, Frank Lorenz, Wanda Dillaberry, Jim Pons, Trey Brewer, David Hack, Bob Raspa

Lucky Mud - Florida Americana… SwamptyTonk: Mike McKinney, Maggie McKinney

Mark Smith - Songs of land, legends, love and loss through a Florida native’s eyes: Mark Smith

Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String BandTraditional American folk songs and the stories behind them: Matthew Sabatella, Jack Stamates, Sean Edelson, Chris DeAngelis

Mel and Vinnie - Original, traditional and topical songs from Florida and beyond: Vincent Cerniglia, Maryellen Healy

Mimi and The HearnDogs - They all play - and all of them are liable to start singing at any time! : Mimi Hearn, Frank Graham, Mark Patton, Kit Goodner

Otemeal - Traditional, upbeat old time tunes: Jessica Bellaire, Allison Cort, Alyssa Donall, Joey Remillard Paco and Celia Fonta Siempre Flamenco - Traditional flamenco music and dance from Andalusia Spain: Paco Fonta, Celia Fonta

Paddy League and Miss Mango - Exquisite poetry soaked in sub-tropical sound-worlds: Paddy League, Christopher Sarju Seepersaud, Geoff Deibel, Jack Straub, Reo Morris

Papaloko & Loray Mistik - Haitian Voodo Pop music and dance band: Papaloko, Maalik Simbi Makaya, Clark Cajuste, Kenneth Metzker, Silencieux, Pierre Richa Murt, Buffalo, Shadia Nelson

Passerine - On the contemporary edges of folk, bluegrass and Americana: David Brain, Carmela Pedicini, Sara Stovall, Doug Conroy

Patchwork - everything from original FL folk, country & bluegrass: Cathy DeWitt, Janet Rucker, David Cook, Jolene Jones, Annie McPherson

Paul Smithson - Songs drawn from Florida’s historical narrative: Paul Smithson

Plena Es - Ethnic music from Puerto Rico: David Lucca, Pierre Ramos, Marlon Caro, Daniel Lopez, Antulio Mora, Mike Rivera, Juan Carlos Rivera

Rachel Grubb - Florida-centric Americana singer/ songwriter: Rachel Grubb - vocals, guitar

Raisin’ Cane - Newgrass and originals delivering hearty harmonies and tasty instrumentals: Elizabeth Fravel, Dave Langston, Chris Wright, Rob Schoen

Raymi Dance School Incorporated - Raymi is dedicated to sharing the rich history of Peru through dance: Genesis Somoza, Perla del Castillo, Jessmary Echevarria, Angela Pacheco, Perla del Castillo, Karen Jones, Allyn Munyan, Darwin Motato, Carlos Loza, Quentin Jones, Luis Reyes, Sandro Portilla, Jon Huddleston, Silvia Huddleston, Maria Aymara, Juan Andres Paredes

Remedy Tree - Modern Hard Driving Bluegrass: Gabriel Acevedo, Abigail Acevedo, Nathan Beaumont, Bryce Griffin

Ric Edmiston - Finger picking, humor and serious topical subjects, a fun performance! : Dennis Harden, Ric Edmiston

Romeo’s Tassa Kidz - Indo-Caribbean Tassa drumming: Robert Ragbir, Kyle Ragbir, Romeo Ragbir, Rian Ragbir, Ashish Gangadhar, Varish Gangadhar, Michael Samai, Satyanand Ramanan, Shivanan Ramanan, Vishal Rajkumar, Justin Seeloch, Bhim Ramanan, Vinayak Cassie, Artie Cassie, Ramesh Cassie

Ron and Bari - Music steeped in decades of Florida Folk heritage: Ron Litschauer, Bari Litschauer

Rural Route 2 - A Panhandle trio celebrating their heritage with harmonies and humor: Amy Alderman, Kathrine Alderman, Joan Alderman

Sacred Harp Shape-Note Singers - “FaSoLa” 4-part a cappella community singing of hymns set in shapenotes: Rachel Speer, Dean Jens, Calvin Jens, Fay Baird, Brack Barker, Jessica Bellaire, Alice Bejnar, Tor Bejnar, Morgan Bunch, José Camacho-Cerna, Jill Cocanougher, Art Cummer, Mary Crummer, Beverly Dayton, Bob Ellis, Jeffery Forbes, Suzanna Hough, Pat Morse, Thatcher Morse, Melanie Murray, Shanice Richards, Anna Strickland, David Strickland, Steve Taylor, Ron Wiegert

Sarah McCulloch - Floridian-inspired melodies with a poetic knack for timeless storytelling: Sarah McCulloch, Raiford Starke, Jim Bickerstaff, Will Ellis

Scott Jackson - singer/songwriter acoustic fingerstyle guitar in the style of James Taylor: Scott Jackson

Shana Smith - Folk/Americana/Blues with jazzy notes, from the heart to heal the soul: Shana Smith

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Snaky Woods - Traditional & Southern Gospel Bluegrass: Steven Sauls, Nathan Sauls, Kayte Sauls, Jadyn Sauls, Kaiah Sauls, Alyson Sauls, Bradlee Waldvogel

Southern Journey - Music with southern roots - bluegrass, folk, fiddle, blues and more: Merryn Corsat, Wanda Dillaberry, Eugene Nix, Jack Piccalo, Bob Raspa, Ken Taylor

St Pete Shanties - Shanties and Work Songs: Bruce Witton, Capt. Rick Correa, Dennis Devine, Gary Fuller, Goody Haynes, Bob Lusk, Oisín Ó Ruacháinn

Storydogs - Traditional Folktales and Florida Folk Music: Thomas Lynch, Julie Humphries, Christie Koontz

Tale Tellers of St. Augustine - Florida stories plus original, traditional, and historical stories: Sharon Sappington, Drew Sappington, Natalie Beltrami, Margaret Kaler, Lou Novak, Twila Hudson, Harold Lock, Robin Mahonen, Ed Mahonen, PapaJoe Gaudet

TellemTall - TellemTall tells tall tales: That’s as true as it gets: Eric Hoeppner, Brett Wellman, Deborah Thompson

The Byrne Brothers - Exciting Traditional Celtic Music, Dancing, Singing and lots of fun! : Tommy Byrne, Luca Byrne, Finn Byrne, Dempsey Byrne

The Carr Sisters - Florida grown sisters perform folkcountry favorites and soulful originals: Madi Carr, Ella Carr

The Chicken Parade - A fun-loving party of like-minded talented musicians: Frank Julian, Curtis Wayne Schaper, Pasco Paul Belmore, Laird Duran, Ron Townsend

The Currys - The Currys are a folk-rock family band: Tommy Curry, Jimmy Curry, Galen Curry

The Deux Francois Band - A tasty mix of Celtic and American Old Time music for Listening and Dancing: Frances Pisacane, Kathie Aagaard, Sarah Mitchell, Bill Dudley

The Dunehoppers - A tasteful blend of folkgrass, traditional as well as original music: Mike Elias, Allen Hood, Kathy Zemaneck, Bob Parsons, Janine Rainville

The Firewater Tent Revival - Psychadelic Party Grass: Dave Smith, Jeff Hoff, Nigel Ledford, Kris Whatley, Brandon Howell, Ed Richardson

The Florida Boys - Original and Traditional Florida Folk Songs: Patrick Barmore, Bart Hanchey, Peter Gallagher, Foster Barnes, TC Carr, J. Robert Houghtaling

The Front Porch Backsteppers - traditional and contemporary folk and bluegrass songs: Virginia Carr, Eli Tragash, John Peyton, Michael Peyton

The Leeboys - Sacred Steel Music Infused with Gospel, Folk and More: Alvin Lee, Keith Lee, Derrick Lee, Brian Byrd, Lil Al Cordy, Earl Walker

The Little Mercies - Healing harmonies, timeless tunes, and sassy stories in old time fashion: Shanice Richards, Bronwyn Chelette, Rosalee Walsh

The Living Legends of Sacred Steel - The Best of Sacred Steel from the Living Legends: Calvin Cooke, Chuck Campbel, Ted Beard, Aubrey Ghent, Lonnie Bennet, Ronnie Mozee

The McLaughlins - Enjoy Folk,Jazz,& Celtic music performed with guitar,harp,trumpets & more! : Paul McLaughlin, Lorraine McLaughlin

The New 76ers - Three piece family band, focusing on vocal harmonies and original songs: Brian Durham, Danny Goddard, Kelly Goddard

The Peyton Brothers - Bluegrass/ folk music with tight harmonies and playful banter: Dan Peyton, Michael Peyton, Lee Peyton, John Peyton, Grant Peyton

The Storytelling Sims - Tandem tellers of humor, history and Florida tales and legends: Wayne Sims, Jane Sims

The Wire Birds - We are a Chamber Folk group: Dan Stepp, Emma Lou, Lauran Roberts, Andre Cox, Cate Hancock, Dan Hardwick, Gabi Shapiro

The Young Guns of Sacred Steel - Young guns are the upcoming players of Sacred Steel:

Tom Greene - Contra and square dance caller: Tom Greene

Uncle Mosie - A foot-stomping, soulful exploration of bluegrass, alt-folk, and country: Scott Ashcraft, Andrew Cook, Brian Turk, Mark Archer, Jared Groom, Dana Myers

VGO - VGO tells stories in a unique traditional style with music: VGO, Hank Tenenbaum

Vicki Morrison – Contra dance caller: Vicki Morrison

Walter Parks - Historic swamp hollers, hymns and reels reimagined plus originals: Walter Parks

Wild Shiners - Face-Melting Americana: Brian Turk, Tom Grant, Mike Lagasse, Andrew Cook, T’ai Welch

Zapen & Douglass - The mother-son duo harmonizes songs, from country to jazz to modern folk.: Joel Douglass, Rebecca Zapen

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Florida Remembered

Experience Old Florida’s history, traditions and folkways at Florida Remembered. One of our newest additions to the festival, Florida Remembered is dedicated to the robust spirit of Floridians and those from around the globe who have built the foundation of the Florida we know and love. With ingenuity and perseverance, our predecessors have conquered the hardships they encountered to cultivate Florida’s cultural landscape. Meet characters from Florida’s past. See traditional crafts, tools and skills faithfully reproduced by experts. Visit an authentic Cracker Cow Camp. Through workshops, demonstrations and characterizations, tradition-bearers and interpreters will share their expertise as you explore Florida’s unique history.

Christa Hunter, Field & Flock, has natural fiber knitted wares, dried herbs, and fresh Florida salt along with other apothecary goods and candies. Demonstrations and hands-on experiences for hand quilting.

Sausage making, salt pickling, barley threshing, grain grinding, carding and processing wool will be demonstrated by Ethan Forbes, Clothilde Forbes, Rose Forbes, Angela Minno, Mirin Minno, Marc Minno, Avi Minno, Shenna Bennarte, Alex Zukovski.

Robert Wilson, Cole Cady, Deedee Ritch, Cara Salg, John Salg and Lila Salg will portray frontier trapper traders Mycol Stevens will give educational talks on plants and mushrooms.

Kristyn Gorton will give awareness talks on Florida snakes with a brief guided hike.

Palm frond weaving and palmetto basket making will be demonstrated by Willy the Losen, Stephen Cotton, Joy Cotton, Barrett Cotton, Jasper Cotton, and Gus Cotton. Psychic readings modeled after the experience at historic Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp in Volusia County. Maria Minno and friends will give readings all throughout the day. Florida Remembered Band: Duane Westling and Bjorn Parramoure

Florida Remembered Workshops

Friday

2p-4p: Remembering our plants – Have fun learning what plants grow on the grounds, their stories and uses with Mycol Stevens

Saturday

9a-10a: Florida’s Snakes and You: Safety, Appreciation, and, Conservation with Kryston Gorton, conservation biologist, PhD student and native Floridian. For an all-ages discussion about the ecological and cultural significance of Florida’s snakes. Meet a real live snake, learn how to identify and protect yourself from venomous species, and then explore our scaly neighbors’ habitat and their role in the environment during a brief guided walk. 10a-12p: Cabbage palm weaving: learn to weave swamp roses and palm critters. With Willy the Losen and friends.

10a-12p: Funguyin Out: Learn what mycelium are growing amongst us...(the fungus among us) with Mycol Stevens

2p-4p: Get a Handle on Things: Learn how to fix your broken garden tools with Mycol Stevens

2p-4p: Palmetto Basket Weaving: Learn to make a gathering basket from saw palmetto fronds. With Willy the Losen and friends.

Sunday

10a-12p: Florida’s Snakes and You: Safety, Appreciation, and, Conservation with Kryston Gorton, conservation biologist, PhD student and native Floridian. For an all-ages discussion about the ecological and cultural significance of Florida’s snakes. Meet a real live snake, learn how to identify and protect yourself from venomous species, and then explore our scaly neighbors’ habitat and their role in the environment during a brief guided walk.

11a-1p: Cabbage palm weaving: Learn to weave swamp roses and palm critters. With Willy the Losen and friends.

2p-4p: Cabbage palm weaving: Learn to weave swamp roses and palm critters. With Willy the Losen and friends.

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Marketplace Highlights

Marketplace brings the artistry of the world to the Florida Folk Festival. In some instances, the vendors are themselves both the importers and the makers of traditional crafts. They may be new settlers whose booths help to support traditional artists in Guatemala or importers of exquisite beads from around the world.

Whether as book and music publishers or the makers of instruments or accessories for musicians, marketplace vendors keep the natural and cultural history of Florida alive, and they showcase the state’s cultural connections with the world.

Ginger Tendl, Florida Tunes and Treasures: Vintage guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, stringed instruments and accessories, typically from 1950 to 2000. Florida related art and collection of folk music vinyl records, including Florida artist Gamble Rogers and other current or prior performers at folk festivals.

Richard Ferriss, Floridana Stuff Company: Primarily second-hand books, sheet music, recordings and other items relating to music, crafts, Florida, and folklore.

Defiant Worm Books sells Florida books by Tom Levine a Florida writer with four books celebrating natural Florida and collections of his best fishing stories.

Sarah Steiner, Greater Goods Trading Company, has musical instruments, handmade jewelry, Florida artwork, and hot sauces.

Florida’s Handmade Instrument Makers

At the Luthier’s Exhibit, located inside the Museum, you’ll find talented makers of handcrafted stringed instruments who use both raw materials and commercially available supplies to construct one-of-a-kind guitars, banjos, dulcimers, and other musical instruments.

John Catches, Catches Guitars : handcrafted wood/acoustic stringed musical instruments; gourd banjos, open back banjos and acoustic guitars.

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Florida’s cooks have created unique flavors using the ingredients at hand and the traditions their families brought when they first came to the state. At the Florida Folk Festival, there’s everything from homemade beef jerky to Caribbean influenced dishes of chicken pilau, hoppin’ john, black-eyed peas, and okra and tomatoes. More recent immigrant communities have brought their culinary tastes for warm curries and fragrant rices from Trinidad, and light pastries and seasoned lamb from Greece. Florida’s coastal waters offer fresh crab, shrimp and oysters, and its farmers raise fresh strawberries, melons, and citrus. During the Folk Festival you can enjoy collard greens and cornbread or a fine plate of fried chicken from the churches cooking at the Old Marble Stage food shelter. At the Amphitheater food court, there’s everything from barbecue and gumbo to lime fizzes and vegetarian fare. From breakfast until the midnight snack, there’s plenty of good food at the Florida Folk Festival.

Old Marble Stage Foods

Alston’s Chicken: chicken wings, hand-cut sea-salt fries, garlic parmesan fries, homemade egg rolls - shrimp, chicken, vegetable, or pork; shrimp pattie, grilled chicken, chicken bites, smoked BBQ pork sandwich, chicken grilled cheese sandwich, brisket mac & cheese sandwich, mac & cheese, red beans & rice, coleslaw, and corn fritters, water, soda, homemade sweet tea, or strawberry lemonade

The Community Revival Center: smoked mullet, fried fish dinner, vegetable platter, hot dogs, slaw dogs, chicken wings, stewed chicken, fries, tater tots, baked beans, coleslaw, mac & cheese, cabbage, collard greens, water, soda, home brewed tea, lemonade, sweet potato pie, and boiled peanuts.

Amphitheater Stage Foods

AnnLee Concessions: root beer floats, lemonade, orange drink, bottled water. Caldonias Kitchen #3 LLC: BBQ ribs, BBQ chicken, pulled pork, hamburger, philly cheese steak, macaroni and cheese, collard greens, baked beans, mozzarella sticks, fried mac bites, and corn fritters.

Definitely Lobster: traditional lobster roll, southern style lobster roll slider, lobster wonton, lobster fritters, and assorted drinks.

Greek Flame Food: Food lamb or chicken gyro, Greek salad, Greek sampler platter, gyro fries, lemonade, soda.

Guillery’s Shaved Ice: coffee, espresso shot, hot chocolate, LG assorted teas, coffee shake, french vanilla cappuccino, frozen chocolate, jamocha, latte, zest tea, quad aftershock, shaved ice, americano, chai tea, dirty chai tea, chai tea with espresso shot, danish

Jessica Achorn: fried rice/lo mein/pancit, sausages – Polish, Italian, alligator. seafood platter – shrimp, calamari, oyster, fish, and soft-shelled crab. crawfish veggie platter – fried pickles, fried tomatoes, fried eggplant, onion, shish kabob – alligator, chicken, pork, shark, or shrimp. hot dogs, corn dogs, lumpia, crab cakes, turkey legs, pulled pork, bang bang, ribbon fries, curly fries, loaded potato

Josie’s Latin Fusion: arroz con pollo bowl, cheese arepas, Miami Special Cuban sandwich, Dominican flour empanadas platter, Colombian corn empanada platter, quesadilla - roasted mojo pork, smoked ham, salami, or Swiss cheese Children’s Menu: rumba dog – beef foot long hot dog with shredded mozzarella, crumble chips, ketchup, and pineapple sauce. *Gluten-free and vegan options available.*

Phils Grille: burrito sandwich, falafel, shawarma – chicken, lamb, or pork, spinach artichoke dip, crispy vegetables, stuffed grape leaves, baklava, water, coke, strawberry lemonade, iced tea

Southern Cravin’s: po’boy – shrimp, steak, catfish, oyster, or gator; sandwich – fish, chicken, BLT, chicken philly, fried or blackened shrimp, fried oysters, clam strips, walking taco, fries, cheese fries, sweet fries, tator tots, fried okra, onion rings, cheese sticks, corn nuggets, fried pickles, gator bites, boiled peanuts

Sweet Treats: funnel cakes, elephant ears, fried oreos, beignets, cotton candy, chocolate covered key lime pie, chocolate covered bananas, chocolate covered cheesecake, juice, milk shakes, soda.

Under The Reign Lemonade: classic lemonade, fruit and herb lemonades, lemonade with coconut cream

Wolverine Concessions: catfish dinner, catfish basket, bourbon chicken and rice, bourbon chicken wrap, philly cheesesteak, grilled cheese sandwich, frog legs, hamburgers. fries, fresh vegetables, rice, and beans, soda, water, tea and lemonade. Children’s Menu: chicken tenders with fries. *Open for breakfast* - Texas toast sandwich, breakfast bowl, breakfast plate, breakfast wrap.

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Fiddle Contest

Work Your Bow and Step into Stardom Fiddlers of all ages are invited to enter the official Florida State Fiddle Contest. The contest will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Gamble Rogers Stage on Saturday. The awards ceremony will take place Saturday night on the Amphitheater Stage.

The contest is sponsored by the Florida State Fiddlers Association (FSFA) in cooperation with the Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Recreation and Parks. The contest has five categories: Junior (through age 12), Youth (13 to 17 years old), Contemporary, Twin and Old-Time. Contestants may enter one individual category and the twin fiddle competition if they wish. Contestants may have no more than two back-up musicians. Only stringed instruments are allowed as backup instruments. Contestants are required to perform 2 fiddle tunes of choice no more than 4 minutes in total length. A third tune should be prepared in the event of a tie. For Additional information and to pre-register for the Fiddle Contest, contact the Florida State Fiddlers Association.

Fiddlers who have not pre-registered must purchase a festival pass and sign up at the Under the Oaks Stage beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Contest entry fees are $10 per division for FSFA members and nonmembers.

The Florida State Fiddlers Association is a group of musicians and enthusiasts dedicated to perpetuating the art of fiddling by demonstrating fiddling styles and documenting fiddling traditions of the state. Their

intention is to entertain and educate with traditional fiddling. The organization has hosted an annual convention since 1981. In 1990, the Florida Legislature designated this annual competition the official state fiddle contest. Everyone who enjoys good fiddling is invited to attend the contest and experience Florida’s varied fiddle music tradition.

Banjo Contest

The Florida Banjo Society along with the Florida Folk Festival will host an old-time banjo contest again this year. The competition will be judged by a talented slate of judges. The contest is open to old-time banjo playing styles. Old-time banjo in this context refers to styles pre-dating bluegrass played on 5 string banjos. Categories are Novice, Journeyman and Senior Honors. Registration begins Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Gamble Rogers Stage, which is the venue for the contest. Contestants must hold a valid festival pass and pay a $10 registration fee. Entrants will play two tunes.

Contact the Florida Banjo Society for additional information.

Prizes to be announced.

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Calendar of Events

For more information visit StephenFosterCSO.org or call (386) 397 -7009 *Special Event Fees*

OLD-TIME MUSIC WEEKEND *

September 13 - 15, 2024

Classes on old-time music techniques from the masters of the fiddle, banjo, guitar, and voice. Concerts nightly.

33rd ANNUAL QUILT SHOW & SALE

October 18 - 20, 2024

A wide variety of quilts on exhibit, workshops, speakers and demonstrations.

DULCIMER RETREAT *

November 8 - 9, 2024

Workshops, jams, and concerts with nationally recognized dulcimer players. Instructors teach at all levels. Concerts nightly.

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS *

December 6 - 24, 2024

Enjoy complimentary popcorn, hot cocoa, marshmallows by the bonfire, music, vendors, train display, snow flurries, Santa and more!

STEPHEN FOSTER DAY

January 12, 2025

An afternoon musical program in honor of National Stephen Foster Day

FLORIDA OLD-TIME MUSIC CHAMPIONSHIPS *

March 28 - 30, 2025

The Championships include contests, workshops, jams, and Contra dances. www.fotmcinc.com

ANTIQUE TRACTOR & ENGINE SHOW

April 3 - 5, 2025

Vintage farm equipment, tractor pulls, children’s games, exhibits, parade, demonstrations and more.

FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL *

May 23 - 25, 2025

Enjoy the diversity of Florida ’s culture and history when its residents share their food, music, dance, stories, crafts, and work life. Pets are not allowed.

www.FloridaFolkFestival.com

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The Stephen Foster Citizen Support Organization, Inc . (501(c)3) is seeking funds to protect, preserve and restore the historic cultural resources of Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park’ s beautiful Tubular Bell Carillon.

In the summer of 2017, the Carillon Tower sustained electrical damage in a storm. The bells were silent until the Stephen Foster Citizens Support Organization stepped in to fund repair of the bells. The Stephen Foster Citizen Support Organization and the park diligently researched and sought proposals to repair the carillon and to make the bells ring clear again. They found the Verdin Company, who have been creating and repairing bells and carillons for over 170 years.

The 97-bell carillon, one of the largest musical instruments ever produced in the Western Hemisphere, and the world’s largest tubular carillon in number of bells, was installed during the summer of 1958. It was built by the carillon division of J.C. D eagan, Inc., Chicago. More than a year was required by Deagan craftsman to build the huge set of bells, the greatest single manufacturing project in the firm’s 78 - year history of originating and producing a variety of percussive musical instruments well-known throughout the world.

The Restoration will have multiple phases and as a registered historic site we want to make sure the extensive repairs receive the attention to detail they need. Phase One of the project is underway and we are working to complete an extensive service and repair to all 97-tubular bell strikers, relay panels, control clock and the roll player.

The Stephen Foster CSO has received a special category grant from the Florida Department of State to begin the next phase of restoration this year. The $300,000 granted the organization along with your contributions to date will fund the restoration of one of the three sets of bells and make the carillon operational again in the very near future

With your generous support and tax-deductible contribution, we hope to continue the necessary restoration of the final two sets of bells for this great community icon. Donations for the Restoration Fund can be made online at www.StephenFosterCSO.org/Donate or by mail.

Our deepest gratitude,

The Stephen Foster Citizen Support Organization, Inc.

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You Are Invited to Join…

Stephen Foster Cit izens Suppor t Organization

The Stephen Foster Citizens Support Organization (CSO) has been dedicated to the advancement of the park and its activities since 1988. The CSO helps develop, plan, promote and present quality events at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park for the education and enjoyment of our citizens and visitors to the State of Florida. In addition, the CSO provides an invaluable service by seeking funds for promotion and to purchase additional equipment, build new facilities, enhance educational programming and to assist and support the operation of this park The Stephen Foster CSO is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization.

Your membership benefits include:

• Bimonthly newsletter with park news and events

• Special programs and training

• Volunteer opportunities at one of the many events sponsored by the CSO

• Florida State Park Annual Pass after each 500 hours of volunteer service

Membership Categories:

Corporate - $100.00 ____

Individual

Sponsorship:

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Environmental and Cultural Heritage Awareness Exhibitors

Visit the Environmental and Cultural Awareness Exhibits to discover the people and organizations devoted to conserving Florida’s cultural heritage and natural resources, from endangered species and vital rivers, to artists, educators, and historical sites.

Alzheimer’s Association will have their Brain Bus to inform about early detection and diagnosis, brain health, and risk reduction as well as providing an opportunity to learn about the resources available to individuals who may need to know.

AquiferWatch, science education as it relates to groundwater and stewardship. Sign-ups for free well water testing and free school supplies and activity booklets for children.

Friends of Florida Folk is an advocate for all things Florida Folk. They work to identify, protect, preserve, and promote folk arts, crafts, dance, and music. Located at the Merchandise Tent. They will have Friends of Florida Folk merchandise and are also selling performer cds and festival t-shirts.

Florida Banjo Society is dedicated to the preservation and teaching of the Old-Time Banjo styles that were popular prior to the early part of the 20th Century. The Banjo Society annual hosts the Old-Time Banjo Contest and seeks contestants that honor and preserve this part of our culture

and perform it publicly. Located near the Under the Oaks Stage, Sunday afternoon during the Banjo Contest.

Florida Fiddlers Association works to increase communication among fiddlers and other old-time musicians in the State of Florida. They hold an annual convention and conduct the Florida State Fiddle Contest. The fiddle contest is held Saturday of the Florida Folk Festival at the Gamble Rogers Stage. Members of the Fiddle Association are happy to provide information at the stage during the fiddle contest.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will inform of the history of the agency and conservation efforts in the state of Florida.

Florida Historical Society was established in 1856. The Florida Historical Society is dedicated to preserving Florida’s past through the collection and archival maintenance of historical documents and photographs, the publication of scholarly research on Florida history and educating the public about Florida history through a variety of public history projects and programs. Visit their exhibit during the festival to discover information about the life and work of writer, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. Books relating to Florida’s history and culture will be sold.

Florida Trail Association develops, maintains, promotes, and protects the Florida National Scenic Trail and other hiking trails in Florida while educating the public about conservation of the natural beauty of Florida.

Sierra Club will have educational materials on the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources as well as on their organization.

Suwannee Bicycle Association (SBA), in collaboration with WSHPS has brochures for SBA and WSHPS. Talks about both organizations.

Will McLean Foundation for Florida Heritage in Music presents material designed to educate about environmental protection and cultural preservation through the works of Will McLean and other Florida artists influenced by him. Located at The Will McLean Stage.

WWALS Watershed Coalition is an advocate for conservation and stewardship of water for South Georgia and North Florida. They will promote awareness, environmental monitoring, education, and citizen activities.

White Springs Historic Preservation Society (WSHPS), in collaboration with SBA has brochures for SBA and WSHPS. Talks about both organizations.

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Florida's Finest Crafters

Amphitheater and Old Marble Crafts showcase the great variety of Florida’s artists and natural resources. Inspired or handed down by traditional ways of the past, or styled with the designs of studio art, Florida’s craftsmen pursue the creative expression of their history and culture.

Handcrafted furniture, detailed reproductions of Native American shell carvings, rich Hungarian embroidery and handmade musical instruments are sold alongside fine jewelry, functional studio pottery, handwoven apparel and homemade jams and jellies. Craftsmen demonstrate their skills throughout the craft areas, so take a leisurely stroll and visit with the artists whose work helps to support the Florida Folk Festival.

All craft vendors contribute a percentage of their sales to the Festival. When you patronize these artists, you are supporting both the creativity of Florida crafts and the continuation of the Florida Folk Festival.

Kathryn Basham, Medicine Song Crafts, has handmade items using natural gathered and recycled materials including shells, fossils, coral, pine needles, wild grapevine, and bamboo.

Dana Benton, Magnolia Artisan Soaps, has handcrafted soaps, balms, body butters and beard oils as well as hand-sewn items.

Matt Brabham, Brabham Pottery, has functional wheel-thrown pottery with decorative clay accents.

Erica DuPaul, Pipe Dream Tie Dye Shop, employs various techniques to produce her tie-dyed clothing and tapestries.

Amy Edge, OgZ DeZigns LLC, has magnetic jewelry, crystals, crystal jewelry, suncatchers, sage, and hair accessories.

Antonio Falla, Antonio Designs, has handmade jewelry with silver and semiprecious stones.

Jim Hearn of Hearn Homestead has rustic red cedar benches, signs, coat racks, musical instrument stands and holders.

Harriett Heywood, Earthwares, has handmade aprons, purses, clothing, hats, accessories, and other vintage-style articles.

Patricia Lynne Hutchins, Suwannee Songs Designs, has necklaces, bracelets and earrings made of natural stone and inspired by the natural environment of the Suwannee River Valley. These items are created by the traditional skill of hand-knotting on silk, forging and soldering metals (particularly copper) and hand working wire to set stones, along with other handcrafting techniques.”

Matt Keene, St. Augustine Tintype, has handmade 4”x5” tintypes using the historic wet plate collodion process. Some educational talk about the process and history of the tintype is available.

Eric Larson, Winter Park Soap, has handmade organic skin care products, soaps, lotions, and lip balms.

Gloria Lee, Ernest M. Lee Gallery, has folk art from her husband, Ernest Lee. Paintings, notecards, and more along with replica prints.

Ethel McDonald, Marie’s Home Canning, has, jellies, pickles, and relishes.

Milan Mixson, Stinky Lewis Soap, sells all natural, cold-process, high-quality soap.

Greg Nason, Earthwares, has scroll saw woodwork of pictures, earrings, boxes, and other scrolled items made on a foot-powered antique scroll saw, along with folk instruments made from cigar boxes, tins and other found objects.

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Florida's Finest Crafters

Barbara Phipps, Phashioned by Phipps, has hand woven, crocheted, and quilted textiles and cottage baked goods such as Amish Friendship Bread, pecan pies, cookies, and candied nuts.

Wanda & Vidal Pedrosa Torres, ArteBorikua Artesanias (Borikua Handcraft), have handcrafted miniatures and musical instruments made from gourds and paintings.

Monica Rios is a self-taught artist whose paintings are inspired by Florida wildlife. Along with her paintings, she has hand mounted cards, signed and numbered prints, hand-sewn pillows, and prayer candles. Monica Rios is our featured artist for the 2024 Florida Folk Festival.

Stacey Robinson, Just the Ticket, handmade solid wood platters, charcuterie boards, and lanterns along with leather and cow hide made items.

Leslie Skeen, Salt and Light Herbal Apothecary, has allnatural herbal teas, tinctures, salves, and tallow balms.

Paul Smithson, Dreamsongs Art, is a self-taught artist that makes abstract paintings. He is also one of our performers this year, so when his booth closed, go see him on stage.

Libby Spratlin, Two Can Design House, has handmade functional pottery.

Kortney Stewart, Thomas Honey, has raw honey, craft honey blends and beeswax.

Lita Swindle, Claytor & Swindle, demonstrate spinning and the making of rag rugs using a rigid heddle loom. They offer demonstrations and sales of rag rugs, cloth, and fiber items.

Melinda Swindle, Minna’s, has weavings, homemade sewing items, microwave potholder bowls, Christmas stockings, cork necklaces and crocheted items.

Jude “Papaloko” Thegenus, Gallery Jakmel Inc., will have paintings, fine art, and small functional art. The focus of Gallery Jakmel is Haitian art, music, and culture.

Angelica Tilton, Possum and Palmetto, has handmade natural watercolor sets and art pieces. The artwork features plants, animals, and mushrooms of Florida.

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What We Do

Who We Are

Our mission is to support and help sustain the Florida Park Service. The Foundation , founded in 1993 as the Friends of Florida State Parks and renamed in 2018, is a 501(c)(3) nonproﬁt corporation and the statewide citizen support organization of the Florida Park Service.

Advocacy: Serves as a conduit and a collective citizens’ voice.

Communications: Promotes Florida State Parks and visitor experiences.

Fundraising: Seeks funds, funders, and partnerships to support project s.

Support: To local Friends groups with education, communication and other services.

Programs: Awards grants and provides support through:

• Access for All - funds park accessibility projects and improvements

• LIFE - an educational partnership to utilize st ate parks as outdoor classrooms

• Yellow Buses in the Parks - funds transportation for educational trips

Why We Do It

We are passionate, committed and engaged in making Florida State Parks the very best now and for future generations. We value the Florida Par k Service and support their efforts to preserve, protect and manage state parks utilizing their staff including Friends groups, volunteers, and public and private partnerships. Join us!

Florida State Park Foundation, Inc.

1700 N. Monroe Street Suite 11 #2 00, Tallahassee FL 32303-5535

813-586-0681

info@ﬂoridastateparksfoundation.org

To learn more or make a donation - FloridaStateParksFoundation.org

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Acknowledgments

Park Staff and Volunteers

Manny Perez, Park Manager

Debra Walker, Assistant Park Manager

Courtney Livengood, Administrative Assistant

Elaine McGrath, Events Coordinator

Jeff Niehaus, Maintenance Supervisor

Andrea Thomas , Park Services Specialist

John Hill, Park Services Specialist

Peter Shanks , Park Services Specialist

Pat Cromer, Museum Guide

Jim Ellis, Park Ranger

Kevin Pittman, Park Ranger

Jessica Watkins, Park Ranger

Robert Heck, Park Ranger

Angela Mouton, Park Ranger

Flozell Redic, Park Ranger

Kim Rivers, Park Ranger

Tina Marshall, OPS Tolls

Oscar Matthew, OPS Ranger

Kathleen Knetge, OPS Attendant

Andrea Nincehelser, OPS Tolls

Chuck Bennett, Maintenance Volunteer

Marg Chauvin, Volunteer Events Assistant

Billy Messer, Volunteer Events Assistant

Eric Wasser, Volunteer Events Assistant

Jeanne Wasser, Volunteer Events Assistant

Robert Townsend, Volunteer Events Assistant

Mike Radel, Volunteer Events Assistant

Dominick Tartaglia, State Folklorist

Carolyn Pardue, Stage Management

Cindy Chittick, Campground

Charlotte Burgess, Seminole Family Camp

Clif Maxwell, Bureau Chief D2

Kim Tennille, Assistant Bureau Chief D2

Craig Littauer, Park Program Specialist D2 Volunteer Events Assistant

Vernie Hardwicke, Registration Volunteer

Florida Park Service Temporary Staff/Volunteers

Amy Bauer

Anne Barkdoll

Karl Benz

Daniel Cook

Joy Cotton

April Davis

Clay Dickson

Heather Goston

Tyler Hodge

Candace Johnson

Tracie Johnson

Thea Knott

John Larson

Erica Lewis

Greg Ownbey

Dan Pearson

Jimmy Sellers

Christine Small

William Stanton

Kimberly Starling

Caitlin Snyder

Angela Watson

Michelle Waterman

Our Florida Park Service

Ranger Association Family

Dana Bryan

Doug Carter

DeWayne Carver

Jennifer Carver

Kenneth Carver

Terry Couliette

Bob Dampman

Jay Fernanez

Charlotte Fooks

Larry Fooks

Donald Forgione

Rosie Forgione

Randy Hester

Parker Hinson

Rebecca Hinson

Cliff Joyce

Kimberly Joyce

Mark Manning

Sandra Maxwell

Joe McGrath

Mary Jo McGrath

Jenn Miller

Nels Parson

Wendy Parson

Alex Remmel

Robert Rundle

Vicki Rundle

Valinda Subic

Joe Sutter

Sandy Vardaman

Gerry Von Ehr

Margaret Von Ehr

Gwendolyn Waldorf

Pat Wells

Ashley Wiseman

Security

Florida Wildlife Commission

Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office

Florida Highway Patrol

First Aid

Hamilton County EMS

Artist Recording Sales

Friends of Florida Folk, Inc.

Sign Language Interpretation

Diane Delage

Sarah Tait

Liz Miley

Piano Care

Bloch Piano Tuning and Restoration

Program

Lake City Reporter

Sound & Lighting

First Street Music

Hurricane Mountain Sound

Rick Ott Performance and Production

Michael Frimet

Sanitation Services

Waste Pro

AAA Port-A-Serv

Sponsor Reception

Nutrien

Stephen Foster CSO

Flowers

The Bullard Family of White Springs

Tents

Nelson’s Tents

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Acknowledgments

Arne Grinaker

Nancy Grossman

Yvonne Gsteiger

Vernie Hardwicke

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