Florida Folk Festival is a long-running annual

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

festival in Hamilton County,

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. It began in 1953. Thelma Boltin was an organizer for the festival. The festival has also featured presentations in the

Mikasuki language The Mikasuki, Hitchiti-Mikasuki, or Hitchiti language is a language or a pair of dialects or closely related languages that belong to the Muskogean languages family. Mikasuki was spoken by around 290 people in southern Florida. Along with the C ...

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External links

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MP3 files of the Florida Folk Festival
made available for public use by the

State Archives of Florida The State Library and Archives of Florida is the central repository for the archives of state government for the state of Florida. It is located at the R.A. Gray Building on 500 South Bronough Street in Tallahassee, Florida, Florida's capital. ...

History of the Florida Folk Festival by the State Archives of Florida
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