North Florida Folk Network

North Florida FolkFest 2011 promises to be a day of great fun, music, and of course - folk. Get your ticket to an all day concert of 25 local and touring folk acts that will be performing on 4 stages at the Florida Agricultural Museum.

The festival stages will include the historic 1890s pioneer homestead, the dairy barn formerly belonging to Governor Millard Caldwell, and several of the restored 1930 era citrus business buildings.



Enjoy live performances from 10am until 8:30pm on November 12, 2011.

Come out and enjoy the sounds of:

Katherine Archer Susan Brown  Ellen Bukstel  John R. Butler Jim & Rachel Carrick Dale Crider  Jamie DeFrates Mike Denney Ronny Elliott Paul Garfinkel  James Hawkins  Mike Jurgensen	Roadside Revue  Rod MacDonald Larry Mangum Jerry Mincey  Sam Pacetti  Bob Patterson  Grant Peeples  Mike Peyton	Al Scortino Tom Shed Mindy Simmons  Frank Thomas  Lis and Lon Williamson Darryl Wise

North Florida FolkFest 2011 is co-hosted by our friends at the Florida Agricultural Museum located on US 1 at Palm Coast, FL. It's a short drive from Jacksonville, Daytona Beach or Gainesville.

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Honored Guest: Frank Thomas singer / songwriter  Frank Thomas has written over five hundred songs about Florida. Born and raised in Clay County, Frank  is a native Floridian whose ancestors came to Florida in the late eighteenth century.

His family’s direct connection with the land, his strong Florida heritage, and his love of Florida inspires much of his music. Frank's entire family played music and he learned it singing gospel at home and in church. Frank went on to tour nationally as a front man with the Arkansas Travelers playing rhythm guitar. He later returned to Florida and performed extensively with his wife, Ann (1946-2004). He has recorded nine albums including Cracker Nights, Florida Stories, Bingo!, Spanish Gold, and Just AnotherDay,,,. Together, Frank and Ann produced and hosted a weekly singer-songwriter radio show for wMNr-FM in the Tampa area. They traveled Florida performing their music at schools, festivals, music and folk clubs, on television, and on concert stages. Their video “Florida History in Song” won the Florida Historical Societies coveted Golden Quill Award and has been re-released on DvD recently. Other awards received include The Florida Folk Heritage Award, and the Inaugural Jillian Prescott History Award, the Stetson Kennedy Foundation’s Fellow Man and Mother Earth Award, and many others. Though Ann passed in 2004, Frank, with his current wife, Lisa, continues the rich tradition of passing on Florida history through story telling in song.