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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."
The Florida Frolic was a weekend-long entertainment event sponsored by the Florida Department of State in cooperation with the Stephan Foster State Folk Culture Center and organized in conjunction with the Bureau of Folklife. There were five annual frolics, beginning in 1990 and ending in 1995. The Frolic included dance and other workshops, live music performances by traditional artists, and meals provided for attendees. Examples of the workshops hosted at the Florida Frolic include contra, square, swing, norteno, clogging, and blues dance; old-time fiddle, old-time banjo, guitar, mandolin, norteno music, and singing. The Frolic was hosted late December, often going through the first few days of the new year.
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This series consists of materials from the Florida Frolic, excluding the first year of the workshop. Materials include brochures, registration forms, event schedules, budgets, staff contracts and attendee packets.
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