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Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time ProgramPortrait of Willie Jones - Old Town, Florida
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Collection
Series S1664, Florida Folk Festival Fieldwork and Program Planning and Documentation Files : 1993 Program book, Rejected Folk Heritage Award Photos ; Box 3, FF32
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Fiddle
Music (History and characteristics)
Musical traditions, European
Musical traditions, Anglo-American
Stringed instruments
Bowed stringed instruments
Violin
Portraits--Florida--Dixie County--Old Town
Fiddlers--Portraits
Stringed instrument players--Portraits
Instrumentalists--Portraits
Folk musicians--Florida--Dixie County--Old Town--Portraits
Musicians--Florida--Dixie County--Old Town--Portraits
Entertainers--Florida--Dixie County--Old Town--Portraits
Older men--Florida--Dixie County--Old Town--Portraits
Violinists--Portraits
Personal Subjects
Physical Description
Biographical Note
Traditional fiddler Willie David Jones of Old Town was born in Dixie County in 1923, just a few miles from where he lives today. He comes from a long line of fiddlers that includes his brothers, father, aunt, and great-uncle. Southern old-time fiddling is a blend of Anglo-Celtic dance music traditions and early popular music styles such as ragtime, country, and blues. It is distinguished by hard-driving rhythm, sliding notes, and ringing "drone" strings. Several of the tunes Jones plays, such as "Charleston No. 1," have been handed down in his family through several generations.
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