13 May 2007
TLH017 Smoky Festival
It's dry in North Florida
and very smoky. There's a huge swamp fire burning on the Florida/Georgia border. There has been a haze in the air the last few days, but today it's so smoky that my eyes burn when I walk outside. Right now, both I-10 and I-have sections closed because of the smoke.
This link should take you to the FHP site for road closure information.
On today's TallyCast, we travel down to Pinellas County, over to White Springs for the Florida Folk Festival and down to Gainesville.
The podcast opens with a tune by Mary Smith McClain,
better known as Diamond Teeth Mary, a great blues performer and an amazing person. Check out this story about Mary that was written after her death in 2000. I re-tell a story about Diamond Teeth Mary and her diamond teeth.
I first heard Mary sing and play the piano at the Florida Folk Festival in White Springs about 10 or 15 years ago. If you have some time over the Memorial Day Weekend and are anywhere near the intersection of I-10 and I-75, you should stop in and enjoy a bit of the festival. It's held at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park, a Florida State Park. Hopefully, but Memorial Day, the fires will be out, the rain will have come and everybody will be ready to sing and dance.
The podcast ends with a tune by the late Don Grooms; a Cherokee, a professor of journalism at the University of Florida and an amazing singer-songwriter. The tune is called "I believe".
Both tunes and the photographs here come to us from the official Archives of the State of Florida. You can access some of their collection by going the Florida Memory Project on the Internet.
I'm looking for stories of Gaines Street. If you have a story about Gaines street, please get in touch with me. The email is tallycast at gmail (that period looking thing) com or you can call my new talkback line at (850) 391-4955.
Be well, protect your lungs and pray for rain.
Dave
and very smoky. There's a huge swamp fire burning on the Florida/Georgia border. There has been a haze in the air the last few days, but today it's so smoky that my eyes burn when I walk outside. Right now, both I-10 and I-have sections closed because of the smoke.This link should take you to the FHP site for road closure information.
On today's TallyCast, we travel down to Pinellas County, over to White Springs for the Florida Folk Festival and down to Gainesville.
The podcast opens with a tune by Mary Smith McClain,
better known as Diamond Teeth Mary, a great blues performer and an amazing person. Check out this story about Mary that was written after her death in 2000. I re-tell a story about Diamond Teeth Mary and her diamond teeth.
I first heard Mary sing and play the piano at the Florida Folk Festival in White Springs about 10 or 15 years ago. If you have some time over the Memorial Day Weekend and are anywhere near the intersection of I-10 and I-75, you should stop in and enjoy a bit of the festival. It's held at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park, a Florida State Park. Hopefully, but Memorial Day, the fires will be out, the rain will have come and everybody will be ready to sing and dance.
The podcast ends with a tune by the late Don Grooms; a Cherokee, a professor of journalism at the University of Florida and an amazing singer-songwriter. The tune is called "I believe".
Both tunes and the photographs here come to us from the official Archives of the State of Florida. You can access some of their collection by going the Florida Memory Project on the Internet.
I'm looking for stories of Gaines Street. If you have a story about Gaines street, please get in touch with me. The email is tallycast at gmail (that period looking thing) com or you can call my new talkback line at (850) 391-4955.
Be well, protect your lungs and pray for rain.
Dave
Labels: bluegrass, blues, fire, Florida, folk music, podcast, smoke, swamp, white springs
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My kid sister's headed to the FFF this year. She's a mandolin player, and I think she'll be sitting in some with VTW. Wish I could make it.
What kind of Gaines St stories are you looking for?
What kind of Gaines St stories are you looking for?
I'm looking for the odd and unusual regarding Gaines...especially the history of some of the old neighborhoods that have disappeared, some of the businesses that have come and gone. For example, if anyone knows anything about the history of the old brewery that used to be a few doors down from where the Warehouse is now, I'd love to talk to you.
Dave
Dave
Nope, all my stories of Gaines only go back to the late 70s/early 80s, when a lot of local rock and r&b bands rented out spaces over there to practice in. Heck, my sister and I used to rollerskate in what's now the warehouse while our dad's band worked up new songs.
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