Texas Folklife Festival Collection - 61 Matching Results

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[Vicki Fowler and Friends Performance]

Description: Photograph of Vicki Fowler and Friends performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Vicki stands on a raised stage, wearing a long dress and sandals as she sings into a microphone. Her four band members stand in a semicircle around her, playing the acoustic and electric guitars, and the trumpet.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[The Woodromes]

Description: Photograph of the Woodromes performing at the 15th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The family band is performing on a blue stage with a vine covered canopy. Two women and two men stand behind microphones, singing to the audience. The man on the far left plays the electric guitar.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Expresiones Argentinas]

Description: Photograph of Expresiones Argentinas, a percussion group, performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man wearing a blue poncho with yellow and orange embroidery supports a drum strapped across his chest. He plays the drum on a grey stage underneath a blue canopy.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Middle Eastern Belly Dancer]

Description: Photograph of a Middle Eastern Dancer performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, the woman is wearing an elaborately beaded top with a blue and silver skirt. She is barefoot as she dances on a gray stage, wearing a gold cuff on her upper arm, and many blue beaded bracelets.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Portrait of Alta Niebuhr]

Description: Photograph of Alta Niebuhr at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Alta, an herbalist, stands among various plants, wearing a red calico dress underneath a white apron.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[O. T. Baker Preparing the Smokehouse]

Description: Photograph of O. T. Baker preparing food to be smoked at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. O. T. stands behind a wooden table covered in ingredients like cacti, onions and potatoes. He wears a cowboy hat, a white shirt with a floral design, and a long necklace made of red beads and animal teeth.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Voices of the Mainland]

Description: Photograph of the Voices of the Mainland performing at the 15th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Dole Bryant, to the left of the photograph, sings into a microphone next to his other band members, all wearing yellow shirts with blue text.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Fiesta City Chorus]

Description: Photograph of Sally Whiskemann directing the Fiesta City Chorus, a chapter of the Sweet Adelines International, at the Texas Folklife Festival. Sally wears a white dress with a multicolored belt. The women in the chorus wear blue and pink dresses as they sing on a wide row of steps.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Opening Ceremony of the Texas Folklife Festival]

Description: Photograph of the opening ceremony of the 15th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man is standing in the middle of a large crowd of people, holding a pair of scissors and a blue ribbon in his hand. People in the crowd behind him are raising umbrellas in the air and clapping.
Date: July 31, 1986
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Felipe de Jesus Garza Performance]

Description: Photograph of Felipe de Jesus Garza performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Felipe wears a large sombrero with gold trim, a khaki jacket with red trim, red pants, and a red and white polka-dotted tie. He performs on a grey stage with a blue canopy in front of a large crowd of festival participants.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dansul Tejas]

Description: Photograph of the dance group Dansul Tejas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The women, standing in two rows of three, wear red, black, and yellow dresses with intricate detail, white head wraps, and leather sandals.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dansul Tejas Performance]

Description: Photograph of the dance group Dansul Tejas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The group consists of men and woman wearing traditionally Czech clothing. Two men hold hands as they jump forward, while four women stand behind them, also holding hands and performing the same action. A multicolored backdrop decorates the stage.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Spinning Wheel Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Martha Atkins demonstrating wheel spinning at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Martha sits on a bench to the left of a festival participant, showing her how to create thread from sheep's wool.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[1st Texas Battalion Drum and Fife Corp]

Description: Photograph of the 1st Texas Battalion Drum and Fife Corp. performing at the 15th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The two rows of Corps members wear white shirts, red suspenders, and black pants and a black hats. Members of the audience watch the performance around the open, grassy area.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Sheep-Sheering Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Perfecto Cervantes shearing a sheep at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Perfecto holds the sheep still with one hand as he uses an electric razor with the other hand. A crowd of festival participants watch Perfecto shear the sheep.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[The Duckens Family Singers]

Description: Photograph of the Duckens Family Singers performing at the 15th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The band performs on a raised blue stage underneath a canopy made of vines and flowers. The women wear brightly-colored dresses as they sing into shared microphones.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Paul Standefer Making Treenware]

Description: Photograph of Paul Standefer making treenware at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Paul stands behind a table covered in tools, wood, and wood shavings. Festival participants watch the demonstration from around the booth.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Jean Schnitz Playing the Hammer Dulcimer]

Description: Photograph of Jean Schnitz playing her grandmother's hammer dulcimer at the 15th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Jean sings into a microphone as she plays the musical instrument, wearing a white dress and a straw hat. A blue backdrop painted with clouds, a rainbow, and a blue canopy decorate the stage.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas]

Description: Photograph of the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The male dancers are wearing matching uniforms consisting of long sleeve white shirts with detailed embroidery down the front, black sashes with yellow trim, and shiny red pants, and straw cowboy hats. The women wear white shirts with similar embroidery, tucked into red calico skirts, grey aprons, red boots, and red leather boots. The dancers perform on a grey stage with a blue backdro… more
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas]

Description: Photograph of the Ukrainian Dancers of Dallas performing at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The male dancers are wearing matching uniforms consisting of long sleeve white shirts with detailed embroidery down the front, black sashes with yellow trim, and shiny red pants, and straw cowboy hats. The women wear white shirts with similar embroidery, tucked into red calico skirts, grey aprons, red boots, and red leather boots. The dancers perform on a grey stage with a blue backdro… more
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[St. Alphonsus Church Food Booth]

Description: Photograph of the St. Alphonsus Church food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a man is cutting fajita meat and preparing ingredients for the grill. He wears a red hat, a navy shirt, and denim jeans.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cajun Gumbo Cooking]

Description: Photograph of Irvin Boudreaux and Melvin Breaux preparing Cajun gumbo at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The two men wearing red shirts are standing behind a large metal drum filled with gumbo. The man to the left is stirring the gumbo with a long wooden stick. Various festival booths with brightly colored canopies are visible in the background.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Pinata-Making Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Guadalupe de Pena making a pinata at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, Guadalupe holds a blue pinata towards the crowd of festival participants. She wears a white dress with colored flowers embroidered across the bodice.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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