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Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. Florida Folklife Archive
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Nikitas Tsimouris slides, photographs, negatives, and flyer, 1985-1988.
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0.25 cubic ft.
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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."
Nikitas Tsimouris was born on the Greek island of Kalymnos, where he learned to play the Tsabouna when he was eight years old. In 1968 he brought his family to the Greek community of Tarpon Springs, Florida. The Tsabouna, or a shepherds bagpipe, is a Greek bagpipe-like instrument which is made from the skin of a goat. The bag section of the instrument lasts for only three or four years depending on the amount of play. The instrument has a mouth piece which consists of two pipes with two reeds inside. The Florida Folklife Programs and WEDU - TV in Tampa produced a videodocumentary about the Tsimouris Family of Tarpon Springs.
Summary:
This series contains materials related to Nikitas Tsimouris and his Tsabouna playing. The series consists of photographs, slides, negatives, contact sheets, an audio tape, and flyer information from 1985 to 1988.
The contact sheets, slides, negatives, and photos show Nikitas Tsimouris with his tsabouna and with his children and grandchildren. The audio tape is of Tsimouris performing at the Florida Folk Festival in 1986. The flyer in this collection is for a videodocumentary about the Tsimouris Family of Tarpon Springs, produced by the Florida Folklife Programs and WEDU - TV in Tampa. This video was available for rent or purchase from the Florida Folklife Programs.
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Searchable index to images and sound recordings available online at http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/
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For a copy of the video tape mentioned in this series, see S1615, Video recordings of Florida Folklife Events, Programs, and Television Broadcasts.
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Tsimouris, Nikitas
Folk music Florida Greek Americans Florida Greeks Florida Greeks Music Florida Folklife.
Machine-readable artifacts. aat Photographs. aat Slides. aat Negatives. aat Audio cassettes. aat Audio tapes. aat Sound recordings. aat
Tarpon Springs (Fla.)
Florida Folk Festival
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