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Tuesday, 30 October 2007 |
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2007 Florida Folk Festival - November 9 - 11
In
consultation with the other agencies involved in the Bugaboo fire
suppression and public safety issues, the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Division of Recreation and Parks has
canceled this year’s Florida Folk Festival. The festival was to be
held at Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in White Springs
May 25 -27. The festival has been rescheduled for November
9 - 11.
Florida Folk Festival Website
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Thursday, 13 September 2007 |
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Recently Fl. Governor Charley Crist accepted from public radio producer
Donna Green-Townsend a copy of UF Broadcast Journalism's
award
winning CD- News Documentary, "Apalachicola Doin Time".
Donna and
Crist while attending apointments on campus discussed the
CD and its
educational and media potential.
Crist acknowledged the river-water negotiations and the importance of
public understanding of this largest river system issues soon to be
decided. To Florida's future and to esturine Northern Gulf of Mexico
fisheries this radio doc. addresses the issues Crist has more generally
regarded such as his concern for manatees regulation changes this
week by FWC.
The enviromentally alert Governor assured Donna that he definately
planned
to listen to the documentary and its songs before negotiating
with Georgia
and Alabama concerning a water flow agreement mandated by
orders of
a Federal Court ruling.
The song "Apalachicola Doin Time" by Dale Crider is available thru
Will Mclean Foundation
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
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Trisha and Ken Brooks sell homemade rhythm spoons, dulcimers, Cajun
washboards,
and a variety of other bluegrass-style instruments. The two
have been making a living
from music and crafts for 27 years. Married for 27 years, the Spring Hill couple consider
themselves devout "folkies."
Saint Petersburg Times Featured Article -> Read More..........
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
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Valerie Wisecracker and Angela Patua, Brazilian Musician, paid tribute to
Diamond Teeth Mary at the Tobacco Road Lounge | |
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Mary " Diamond Teeth" McClain, an original!
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from The African American Registry
Mary McClain |
*Mary Smith McClain was born on this date in 1902. She was an African-American blues singer and entertainer.
Better known as Walking Mary and later Diamond Teeth Mary, she was born
in Huntington, West Virginia. Mary McClain was the half sister of
Bessie Smith (Smith's mother was one of Mary's four stepmothers). At
the age of 13, young McClain couldn't stand the beatings any more and
left home to join the circus disguised as a boy in her brother's
clothes. She came to Memphis, Tennessee, worked as a chorus girl and
joined the Rabbit Foot Minstrels, where she became a featured singer.
McClain spent the 1920’s and 1930’s performing in a variety of medicine
and minstrel shows. She shared billings with her sister Bessie, Billie
Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Big Mama Thornton, Ray Charles, Charlie Parker
and Duke Ellington. She toured with the USO and sang at the Apollo
Theater, the Smithsonian, and at the White House where her
show-stopping charisma received standing-ovations. McClain also lived
with baseball great Satchel Paige, and was never short of stories about
her life and times. One evening in Memphis she recalled that a young
Elvis Presley "would bring Howlin' Wolf and me liquor from the liquor
cabinet."
During the '40s, McClain had diamonds removed from a bracelet and set
into her upper and lower front teeth, creating a dazzling stage effect.
The diamonds, earned McClain her nickname, and although the original
stones were sold to help pay her mother's medical bills, she later got
a new set of teeth, new diamonds, and her first album release, IF I
CAN'T SELL IT, I'M GONNA SIT ON IT on the Big Boss label. Tragically,
McClain witnessed the heartbreaking death of Bessie Smith. She once
remembered “Bessie was lying in a hospital waiting room, her arm
hangin' by a thread and bleedin' in a pan while the white doctors stood
by and watched doing nothin'. They let her die."
"Diamond Teeth" Mary McClain died on April 4, 2000. As she wanted, her
ashes were sprinkled on the railroad tracks in West Virginia where she
hopped her first train. Her gowns are in the Florida State Museum and
the Memphis Blues Museum. in Miami, Tobacco Road named the performing
room upstairs the Diamond Teeth Mary Cabaret in her honor.
Reference:
Nothing But the Blues The Music and the Musicians
Edited by Lawrence Cohn
Copyright 1993 Abbeville Publishing Group, New York
ISBN 1-55859-271-7 |
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
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Val C. Wisecracker
& Cindy "Sawgrass" Hackney
Labor Day Weekend
Clyde Butcher's Big Cypress Gallery
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Labor Day Weekend Sept. 1, 2 & 3 Sat, Sunday & Monday
Clyde Butcher’s Famous Big Cypress Gallery
Just a quick invitation folks, hope to see you somewhere between here and
there. Cindy “Sawgrass” Hackney & Valerie C. Wisecracker will be playing all
3 days. Make reservations for the walk or just show up for the gallery, music, enviro booths, cracker food and much more.
Last year Jen Noble from Tampa's WEDU PBS did a 10 minute movie on our
Muck-Abouts. It is a wonderful movie. I thought it would be fun to
email everyone the link to the movie to watch. If you think people
are CRAZY for going on swamp walks and you could never do it....you need
to watch it. I have included this years' info on the swamp walks
below.
Click on below to watch Swamp Walk Movie
http://clydebutcher.com/AGCJ
_Swamp_Walk.wmv
Log onto www.clydebutcher.com
to make your reservations or
call number on website.
Cindy and Val's CD "My Florida"
WILL BE FOR SALE AT
ALL EVENTS
Please bring your signed waivers that was emailed to you.
All credit cards are being put through this week / no
changes/cancellations.
DIRECTIONS TO THE GALLERY:
FROM MIAMI: Take Tamiami Trail/HWY 41 heading west, we are 35 miles past
the Miccosukee Casinao/Krome Ave - the gallery is located just 2 miles
past the Midway campground on the left.
FROM NAPLES & POINTS NORTH: Take Tamiami Trail/Hwy 41 heading west,
the gallery is 46 miles past the intersection of 951/41. The
gallery is a ½ mile past the Oasis/Big Cypress Visitor Center on the
right.
OR take I-75, exit South (Right) at 29 (Sign says Smallwood
Store/Everglades City)
Go south till you hit first major intersection US 41. (aprox 15
miles)
At US 41 go East (left) aprox. 20 miles
The gallery is a ½ mile past the Oasis/Big Cypress Visitor Center
on the right.
- Click to view
http://clydebutcher.com
Valerie C Wisecracker Please
visit her web site
at
www.wisecracker.net for more info, songs, events and
other Wisecracker information.
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