Description:
Photograph of the University of North Texas Afro-Cuban Ensemble performing "Guaguancó" during the dedication of the Jon Kellis Steel Drum Room. Members of the ensemble are playing congas, shekeres, and other types of drums as two men sing.
Date:
November 3, 2014
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
Description:
Photograph of the University of North Texas Drumline performing "Rudimental Showcase Opole" during the dedication of the Jon Kellis Steel Drum Room. Each member of the ensemble is holding a pair of drumsticks over his drum.
Date:
November 3, 2014
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
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Black and white photograph of a group of men known as the Alamo City Highlanders playing the bagpipes in an organized formation at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. They are wearing traditional Scottish clothing, including kilts.
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Color photograph of a group of men performing Cajun music on a small, tent-covered stage at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The band includes a lead vocalist, two guitar players, a fiddler, a drummer and a lap steel guitar player.
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Color photograph of the Bayou City Attic Singers comprised of three singers and a pianist, performing at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The singers are all female; one of them is much younger. They each have their own microphone. Various audio equipment lines the edge of the elevated stage where they are performing. The pianist is an older male, who also has a microphone in front of him. He is seated behind an upright wooden piano.
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Color photograph of an elderly man playing a wooden double-necked guitar at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. Several more wooden stringed instruments are hanging on the wall behind him. The man is identified as Bruce Roark, who makes instruments.
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Color photograph of the Bayou City Attic Singers comprised of four and a pianist; they are performers at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. Three of the singers are standing; there are two women and one man between them. One of the singers is much younger and is seated on a bench. They each have their own microphone. Various audio equipment lines the edge of the elevated stage where they are performing. The pianist is an older male, who also has a microphone in front of him. He is seated b…
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Black and white photograph of two men who are participants of the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. They are playing bass boxes, instruments made from hollow, rectangular boxes with broomsticks that insert into the tops of the boxes. On the right is Bootsie Ehlers, sitting on top of his bass box while he plays. A microphone placed inside the opening at the front of his bass box picks up the sound of his playing.
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Black and white photograph of a band of four men performing together under the name "Voices of the Mainland" at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. Each man has a microphone to sing into. The two men standing in the center are playing electric guitars as they sing.
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Black and white photograph of a group of three people performing together as the Woodrome Singers at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. They each have a microphone. The man on the left is playing the guitar while he sings.
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Black and white photograph of a group of musicians performing together as The High Society Jazz Band at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. There is a man playing stand-up bass, a trumpet player, a banjo player, a trombone player, a clarinet player, and a child holding a recorder in his hands. A saxophone sits in a stand next to the clarinet player.
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Black and white photograph of Ray Baca playing the hammer dulcimer in The Gil Baca Band, of which he is a member. A band mate is playing a tuba behind him while another band mate plays the tambourine. They are performing at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival.
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Black and white photograph of Robert Boyd, who is playing the acoustic guitar with the band, Bluegrass Kinfolk, at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. A stand-up bass player is visible behind him. A banjo player is on his right.
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Black and white photograph of Bruce Roark, a musical instrument maker, and Mary Mann at his musical instruments booth at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. A few stringed instruments like banjos and guitars are on display on the wall behind them.
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Color photograph of a man named John Henry "Bones" Nobles playing the cow bones as musical instruments at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. A microphone is positioned to pick up the sound of his playing. He is wearing a red kaftan shirt and a tan beret. A pair of cymbols are visible behind him.
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Color photograph of a group of four men having a jam session, according to accompanying information, at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. From left to right is John Henry "Bones" Nobles, Ed Kadlecek, Jr., and two unidentified members of the band, The Hoboes. A microphone stands near the center of the four men. The man on the far right is playing the accordion.
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Color photograph of a man named Bill Burns playing the fiddle in a band known as The Bluegrass Kinfolks at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat and eyeglasses. A microphone on a microphone stand has been set before him to pick up the sound of his fiddle. A man playing the Dobro guitar is partially visible behind him to his left.
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Color photograph of a man named Robert Boyd playing the acoustic guitar in a band called The Bluegrass Kinfolks at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. He is wearing a patterned shirt and has a microphone set in a microphone stand positioned at him.
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Color photograph of a pair of bass box players for a band called The Hoboes, a group performing at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. The bass boxes feature holes at their front and broomsticks that protrude from their tops.
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Color photograph of man playing the banjo in a band called Tennessee Valley Authority at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festival. To his immediate left, a man is playing the upright bass. To that man's left is another man playing the acoustic guitar. Each musician has a microphone pointed at their instrument.
Description:
Color photograph of a man named Ray Baca playing the hammer dulcimer. He is a member of the Gil Baca Band, a group performing at the 7th annual Texas Folklife Festivals. A pair of microphones are set before him; one is pointed at the dulcimer while the other is pointed at his head. A drum set is visible behind him.
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Photograph of Jean Schnitz play her grandmother's hammer dulcimer on the Irish Stage at the 24th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Schnitz sits as she plays the instrument. She wears a patterned skirt.
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Photograph of Joseph Kaspar, the Czech accordionist, at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. He is performing on stage with in a traditional Czech costume and holding an accordion.
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