American Folk
February 19-22, 2026
PATRICK DUPRE QUIGLEY, CONDUCTOR
The American Folk Inheritance
The definition of folk music is deceptively simple: it is music that expresses the feelings and daily culture of common people. Folk music is, at its core, communal music: songs shaped by work, worship, migration, hardship, and memory.
But what defines American folk music? That is a considerably more complex question.
As a child, I encountered (on LPs with anodyne titles like American Folk Songs for Children) what I, and much of schoolhouse America, assumed were authentic national melodies. These were songs such as Yankee Doodle, Buffalo Gals, The Yellow Rose of Texas, and Camptown Races: tunes sung at assemblies in my New Orleans Catholic grade school, presented as musical heirlooms.
When I originally imagined this concert, I assumed these would form the backbone of the evening. There was one problem. As I began to research these pieces more carefully, I discovered that many were neither “American” nor “folk” music in any meaningful sense.
Yankee Doodle, in the form we know it today, originated as a British song of mockery: written by an English military physician to lampoon the rustic manners of colonial American soldiers during the French and Indian War. During the Revolutionary era, additional verses circulated that joked about starving colonists, tar and feathering, and death. It is not the simple folk inheritance it is often taken to be.
Similarly, Buffalo Gals, The Yellow Rose of Texas, and much of Stephen Foster’s output emerged from the tradition of the Minstrel Show. Minstrelsy was a commercial genre of 19th-century American musical theater, rooted in racial caricature of Black Americans, often performed by white singers in blackface. These songs do not belong on a program meant to honor the dignity and authenticity of American folk expression.
As a result, this program became something different: an exploration of some of the sources that shaped the musical language we now recognize as Americana.
Those of you who joined us in January heard Seraphic Fire perform a virtuosic display of one of the most influential homegrown musical traditions of the 20th century: American Black Gospel, led by one of its great concert-hall proponents, Jason Max Ferdinand.
This evening, we turn to two additional highly-influential streams of American vernacular song: the folk revival tradition embodied by Woody Guthrie, and the world of Country and Western music, typified by Dolly Parton.
The traditions of Guthrie and Parton draw deeply from older American musical roots: New England shape-note psalmody, devotional Shaker worship song, Appalachian laments, the melodies of Civil War America, Cowboy ballads, Western frontier songs, the hymns of the Second Great Awakening, and even a few 20th-century songs that have entered the folk canon.
These are songs carried across generations: simple, durable, and unmistakably American. We are honored to share them with you this evening.
Patrick Dupre Quigley Artistic Director
This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Candlelight
Seraphic Fire’s annual candlelight concerts —Florida’s most celebrated musical experience—blend ancient music with contemporary masterpieces. Featuring music throughout history with thematic connections to water and nature, the finest singing ensemble set in candlelight will take your breath away. Arianne Abela makes her Seraphic debut conducting this ethereal sonic feast.
NAPLES | Thursday, March 19 at 7:00 PM | Moorings Presbyterian
CORAL GABLES | Friday, March 20 at 7:30 PM | St. Philip’s Episcopal
FT. LAUDERDALE | Saturday, March 21 at 7:30 PM | All Saints Episcopal
BOCA RATON | Sunday, March 22 at 4:00 PM | St. Gregory’s Episcopal
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The full forces of Seraphic Fire close out this celebratory year with a surroundsound, polychoral experience imported directly from the Basilica of San Marco in Venice, Italy. You’ll be at the center of the action as we sing from every corner of the room. An experience you can only get at Seraphic Fire, our season closes with this aural explosion.
BOCA RATON | Thursday, April 9 at 7:00 PM | St. Gregory's Episcopal
CORAL GABLES | Friday, April 10 at 8:00 PM | Church of the Little Flower
FT. LAUDERDALE | Saturday, April 11 at 7:30 PM | All Saints Episcopal
MIAMI BEACH | Sunday, April 12 at 4:00 PM | Miami Beach Community Church
The American Folk Inheritance
Thu, Feb 19, 2026 • 7:00 pm • Moorings Presbyterian, Naples
Fri, Feb 20, 2026 • 8:00 pm • Church of the Little Flower, Coral Gables
Sat, Feb 21, 2026 • 7:30 pm • All Saints Episcopal, Ft. Lauderdale
Sun, Feb 22, 2026 • 4:00 pm • Miami Beach Community Church, Miami Beach
Seraphic Fire
Marc Magellan, guitar
James K. Bass, bass
Patrick Dupre Quigley, piano and leader
Simple Gifts Traditional Shaker
Give Good Gifts Traditional Shaker
Followers of the Lamb Traditional Shaker, arr. Dietterich
Chester
Hymnodic Delays
I. Bright Hour Delayed
II. Broad Road
III. Swept Away
Shenandoah
Tenting Tonight
Home on the Range
My Darlin’ Clementine
Whoopie Ti Yi Yo
William Billings (1746-1800) arr. Cannon
Ingram Marshall (1942-2022), arr. Hatcher
Traditional, arr. Erb
Walter Kittredge (1834-1905), arr. Douma
Traditional Cowboy
Traditional Western
Traditional Cowboy
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)
Angel Band William Bradbury (1816-1868)
Keep on the Sunny Side Ada Blenkhorn (1858–1927) Farther Along Disputed, arr. Harris & Starling
Puff the Magic Dragon
Peter Yarrow (1938-2025)
Light of a Clear Blue Morning Dolly Parton (b.1946), arr. Johnson
This Land Is Your Land Woody Guthrie
SOPRANO
Julie Bosworth
Rebecca Myers
Nola Richardson
Addy Sterrett
ALTO
Amanda Crider
Kimberly Leeds
Emily Marvosh
GUITAR
Marc Magellan
BASS
James Bass
PIANO AND LEADER
Patrick Dupre Quigley
TENOR
Steven Bradshaw
Haitham Haidar
Nick Karageorgiou
BASS
James Bass
Charles Evans
Max Tipton
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Simple Gifts
‘Tis the gift to be simple, ‘tis the gift to be free, ‘Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be. And when we find ourselves in the place just right, ‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained, To bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed. To turn, turn, will be our delight. ‘Till by turning, turning, we come round right.
Give Good Gifts
Give good gifts one to another, Peace, joy and comfort gladly bestow; Harbor no ill ‘gainst sister or brother, Smooth life’s journey, as you onward go.
Broad as the sunshine, free as the showers, So shed an influence blessing to prove; Give for the noblest of efforts your pow’rs; Blest and be blest, is the law of love.
Followers of the Lamb
Arr. Philip R. Dietterich (b.1931)
O brethren ain’t you happy, ye followers of the Lamb. Sing on, dance on, followers of Emmanuel, Sing on, dance on, ye followers of the Lamb.
O sisters ain’t you happy, ye followers of the Lamb. Sing on, dance on, followers of Emmanuel, Sing on, dance on, ye followers of the Lamb.
O I’m glad I am Christian, ye followers of the Lamb. Sing on, dance on, followers of Emmanuel, Sing on, dance on, ye followers of the Lamb.
Chester
William Billings (1746-1800);
Arr. Gary D. Cannon (b.1975)
Let tyrants shake their iron rod, And Slav’ry clank her galling chains, We fear them not, we trust in God, New England’s God forever reigns.
Howe and Burgoyne and Clinton too, With Prescot and Cornwallis join’d. Together plot our Overthrow, In one Infernal league combin’d.
When God inspir’d us for the fight, Their ranks were broke, their lines were forc’d, Their Ships were Shatter’d in our sight, Or swiftly driven from our Coast.
The Foe comes on with haughty stride. Our troops advance with martial noise, Their Vet’rans flee before our Youth, And Gen’rals yield to beardless Boys.
What grateful Off’ring shall we bring? What shall we render to the Lord? Loud Halleluiahs let us sing. And praise His name on ev’ry Chord.
Shenandoah
Arr. James Erb (1926-2014)
O Shenando’, I long to see you, And hear, your rolling river, ‘Way, we’re bound away, Across the wide Missouri.
I long to see your smiling valley, And hear your rolling river,
‘Tis sev’n long years since last I see you, And hear your rolling river.
Hymnodic Delays
Ingram Marshall (1942-2022)
Arr. Suzanne Hatcher (b.1975)
I. Bright Hour Delayed
How long, dear Savior, O How long shall this bright hour delay? Fly swifter round the wheel of time And bring the welcome day.
II. Broad Road
Broad is the road that leads to death, And thousands walk together there. But wisdom shows a narrow path With here and there a traveler.
III. Sweep Away
Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away; our life’s a dream. An empty tale, a morning flower Cut down and wither’d in an hour.
Tenting Tonight
Walter Kittredge (1834-1905);
Arr. Jeffrey Douma (b.1972)
We’re tenting tonight on the Old Campground, Give us a song to cheer. Our weary hearts, a song of home, And friends we love so dear.
Many are the hearts that are weary tonight, Wishing for the war to cease, Oh, many of the hearts that are looking for the right, To see the dawn of peace. Tenting tonight on the Old Campground.
We’re tired of war on the Old Campground, Many are dead and gone of the brave and the true Who have left their homes, wounded long,
Many are the hearts that are weary tonight, Wishing for the war to cease, Many are the hearts that are looking for the right To see the dawn of peace.
Tenting tonight on the Old Campground, Tenting tonight, on a New Campground.
Home
on
the Range
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play. Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day.
Home, home on the range…
Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free, The breezes so balmy and light. That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all of the cities so bright. Oh, I love these wild flowers in this dear land of ours, The curlew I love to hear scream. And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks, That graze on the mountain tops green.
How often at night when the heavens are bright, With the light of the glittering stars, Have I stood here amazed and asked, as I gazed, If their glory exceeds that of ours.
My Darlin’ Clementine
In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine, Lived a miner, Forty-Niner, And his daughter, Clementine.
Oh, my darlin’, Clementine, You are lost and gone forever, Dreadful sorrow, Clementine.
Light she was and like a fairy And her shoes were Number Nine Herring boxes, without topses, Sandals were for Clementine.
Drove she ducklings to the water Ev'ry morning just at nine; Hit her foot against a splinter Fell into the foaming brine.
Ruby lips above the water
Blowing bubbles, soft and fine, But, alas! I was no swimmer! So I lost my Clementine.
In a corner of a churchyard, Where the myrtle boughs entwine, Grow the roses ‘midst the posies, Fertilized by Clementine.
As I was-a walkin’ one mornin’ for pleasure
Spied a cowpuncher all ridin’ alone
His hat was throwed back and his spurs were-a jinglin'; And as he approached he was singin’ this song:
Whoopie ti yi yo, get along little dogies, It’s your misfortune and none of my own.
Whoopie ti yi yo, get along little dogies, You know that Wyomin’ will be your new home.
It’s early in the spring that we round up the dogies
We mark ’em, and brand ‘em, and bob off their tails
We round up the horses, load up the chuck wagon
Then throw the dogies out on the North Trail.
Your mother was raised way down in Texas, Where the jimson weed and the sand burs grow.
We’ll fill you up on prickly pear and chollas
Until you’re ready for Idaho.
Plane Wreck at Los Gatos
Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps; You’re flyin’ them back to their Mexico border
To pay all their money to wade back again.
My father’s own father, he waded that river, They took all the money he made in his life; My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees, And they rode the truck till they took down and died.
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted, Our work contract’s out and we have to move on; Six hundred miles to that Mexico border, They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts, We died in your valleys and died in your plains. We died ‘neath your trees and we died in your bushes, Both sides of the river, we died just the same.
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon, A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills, Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves? The radio says, “They are just deportees.”
Angel Band
William Bradbury (1816-1868)
My latest sun is sinking fast, My race is nearly run.
My longest trials now are past My triumph has begun.
Oh come angel band
Come and around me stand
Oh bear me away on your snowy wings
To my immortal home.
I know I’m near the holy ranks Of friends and kindred dear I brush the dew on Jordan’s banks The crossing must be near.
I’ve almost gained my heav’nly home
My spirit loudly sings
The holy ones, behold they come I hear the noise of wings.
Keep on the Sunny Side
Ada Blenkhorn (1858-1927)
There’s a dark and a troubled side of life
There’s a bright, and a sunny side, too Tho’ we meet with the darkness and strife
The sunny side we also may view.
Keep on the sunny side, Always on the sunny side, Keep on the sunny side of life
It will help us every day, It will brighten all the way If we keep on the sunny side of life.
The storm and its fury broke today, Crushing hopes that we cherish so dear; Clouds and storms, will in time, pass away, The sun again will shine bright and clear.
Let us greet with the sun of hope each day
Tho’ the moment be cloudy or fair
Let us trust in our Saviour always Who keepeth everyone in His care.
Farther Along
Authorship disputed
Arr. Emmylou Harris (b. 1947) and John Starling (1940-2019)
Tempted and tried we’re oft made to wonder, Why it should be thus all day long; While there are others living about us, Never molested though in the wrong.
Farther along we’ll know about it, Farther along we’ll understand why; Cheer up, my brother, live in the sunshine, We’ll understand it all by and by.
When death has come and taken our loved ones, It leaves our home so lonely and drear; Then do we wonder why others prosper, Living so wicked year after year.
Faithful till death said our loving Master, A few more days to labor and wait; Toils of the road will then seem as nothing, As we swept through the beautiful gate.
Puff the Magic Dragon
Peter Yarrow (1938-2025)
Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea, And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee.
Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff, And brought him strings and sealing wax, and other fancy stuff.
Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail; Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff’s gigantic tail. Noble kings and princes would bow whene’er they came. Pirate ships would lower their flag when Puff roared out his name.
A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys. Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys. One grey night it happened: Jackie Paper came no more; And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.
His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain, Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane. Without his life long friend, Puff could not be brave. So Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave.
Light of a Clear Blue Morning
Dolly Parton (b.1946); Arr. Craig Hella Johnson (b.1962)
It's been a long dark night And I've been a waitin' for the morning. It's been a long hard fight But I see a brand new day a dawning.
I've been looking for the sunshine ‘Cause I ain't seen it in so long.
Everything's gonna work out fine. Everything's gonna be alright, it’s gonna be okay.
I can see the light of a clear blue morning. I can see the light of a brand new day.
This Land is Your Land
Woody Guthrie
CHORUS
This land is your land, and this land is my land, From California, to the New York island, From the Redwood forests, to the Gulf Stream waters: This land was made for you and me.
As I went walking that ribbon of highway I saw above me that endless skyway Saw below me the golden valley: This land was made for you and me.
When the sun came shinin’, there I was strollin’, Saw the wheat fields wavin’ and the dust clouds rollin’. A voice was chanting as the fog was lifting: This land was made for you and me.
Stood a big high wall there that tried to stop me: The sign was painted: Said, “Private Property.” But, on the other side, it didn't say nothin’: This land was made for you and me.
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Leonard Smith
Wayne & Lucretia Weiner
Seraphic Fire is sponsored by the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council, and the Miami Beach Mayor and City Commissioners; Coral Gables Community Foundation; The Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation; Hutson-Wiley Echevarria Foundation; Funding Arts Network; Funding Arts Broward; The Kirk Foundation; Peacock Foundation, Inc; Quest Foundation. With the support of the City of Coral Gables Cultural Arts Division. Seraphic Fire is funded by The Children’s Trust. The Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County by making strategic investments in their future. Programs in Broward County are made possible with the support of the Broward County Cultural Division. Support has been provided by the following Funds at the Community Foundation of Broward: Marlene Holder Fund for Broward, Barbara and Michael G. Landry Fund for Broward, Dorothy Osterhoudt Unrestricted Fund for Broward, and The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation Broward Community Fund.