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 Posted: Wed 01 Jun 2005 18:36 Post subject: Florida Folk Festival |
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Mary Lee and I spent last weekend at the 53rd annual Florida Folk Festival, a traditional showcase for the astonishing cultural diversity found in Florida. Here are some representative snapshots.
Banner over the festival entrance.
One of the dozen or so folk music bands.
Among the arts and crafts on display and for sale are the products of family recipies.
Customer enjoying previous art and craft.
The Thai pavilion had some ladies demonstrating food carving. This was once a watermelon.
Mask-maker and demonstrator displaying one of those Puerto Rican horned masks that Barbara is familiar with. As it turned out, she was from my own home town. Small world!
Carved critters.
Critter carver.
Another folk band.
The festival is held on the Suwanee River, so some of the youngsters went swimming.
Flowers on the Suwanee.
A friend of ours sells tie-dyed clothes. This is one of his racks.
Main stage (Emmy Lou Harris performing).
Secondary stage (Carla Ulbricht performing). There are about a dozen simultaneous stages in all.
More carved fruit by the Thai ladies.
Aztec dancers. Their families originally came to Florida as migrant agricultural workers. They perform authentic handed-down Aztec dances,
Mary Lee and me just after a performance.
Typical jam session.
Somebody’s tatooed thigh. (I think that it may have been one of the Thai girls. A Thai thigh, as it were.)
Thai fruit carvers.
Dance troupe from Ghana. They were okay, but their music was not that different from the guys from Ivory Coast or, for that matter, from the guys from Loiza Aldea in PR. Last year a Maasai dance troupe showed up, spears and all. Now that was something!
Thai fruit carver with fruit..
Local basket weaver (from the Suwanee River area).
Puerto Rican bobbin-lace maker.
Carved canteloupe. |
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