South Florida Folklife Center. Florida Folk Festival Metro-Dade Folklife - 1986 and 1990

This series documents Miami-Dade artists’ contributions to the 1986 and 1990 celebrations of the Florida Folk Festival. The materials consist primarily of audio cassette tape recordings of demonstrations and presentations by Miami-Dade artists at the festival. The Florida Folk Festival was first celebrated in 1953 under the sponsorship of the Florida Folk Festival Association near White Springs. Between 1976 and 1995, the State of Florida’s Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs and Museum of Florida History coordinated the Festival. During the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival in 1986, a dedicated area was designated for Miami-Dade Folklife; this was the first time Dade County artists were featured at the Festival in a significant way. Featured artists were discovered during fieldwork for the 1985 Miami-Dade Folklife Survey conducted by Lauri Sommers, Tina Bucuvalas, and Nancy Nusz (HMF9002) and featured in the first annual Traditions Festival in Miami two months earlier (HMF9004). Since the festival’s 50th anniversary celebration in 2002, the Florida Park Service assumed full responsibility for coordinating and producing the Festival. Most of the items in this series are copies of originals held in the State Archives of Florida in Tallahassee, many of which have been digitized and made available through the Florida Memory Project (http://www.floridamemory.com/).

Arranged into three series by format.

Finding Aid Authors: Katherine L. Fleming, David Font, Vanessa Navarro, and Katharine Labuda 2014-2016.

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