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Legislation in 1979 (79-322, SB 1208) transferred the Florida Folk Arts component of the Stephen Foster Memorial to the Florida Department of State. Operating as the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs from ca. 1985 until 1995, the Bureau coordinated the annual Florida Folk Festival and directed such programs as Folk Arts Apprenticeships, Folk Arts in Education, Folk Heritage awards, annual research surveys, and numerous other projects and programs. From 1995 through June 30, 2021, the renamed and reorganized Florida Folklife Program continued the majority of these operations from within the Division of Historical Resources, Bureau of Historic Preservation in Tallahassee. During the 1995 reorganization, the State Archives of Florida acquired the Florida Folklife Collection from the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs’ previously maintained Florida Folklife Archives. Legislation in 2021 (2021-71, L. O. F., HB 909) transferred the Florida Folklife Program and its operations from the Division of Historical Resources to the newly renamed Division of Arts and Culture, previously the Division of Cultural Resources, effective July 1, 2021. The program is charged to "identify, research, interpret, and present Florida folk arts, artists, performers, folklore, traditions, customs, and cultural heritage and make folk cultural resources and folklife projects available throughout the state."
From 1991 through 1992, the Florida Folk Festival Fortieth Anniversary cassette tape recording project worked to produce an audio cassette to celebrate the fourtiest anniversary of the Florida Folk Festival. Entitled "Remembering Old Friends: A Florida Folk Festival Sampler (1978-1987)", volunteers and staff chose 30 to 60 minutes of material, either musical or talking pieces, from recordings made at The Florida Folk Festival between the years 1978 and 1987. Thelma Boltin and Gamble Rogers are just two of the individuals whose material appears on the cassette.
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This series consists of the planning files for the Florida Folk Festival Fortieth Anniversary cassette tape recording project from 1991 to 1992. The series includes correspondence, recorded material recommendations, graphics files (materials used in design of cover and liner notes of cassette), material releases signed by artists/authors and various other files pertaining to the production of the audio cassette. This series does not contain a copy of the cassette.
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Series S1664, Florida Folk Festival Fieldwork and Program Planning and Documentation Files, contains cassette recordings produced for the project documented by this series.
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Rogers, Gamble, 1937-1991. Boltin, Thelma Ann, 1904-1992
Folk music Florida Folk singers Florida Folk songs Florida
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Rogers, Gamble, 1937-1991.
Boltin, Thelma Ann, 1904-1992
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