Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Dixieland
Moses Williams plays the one-string diddley bow
Moses Williams
Moses Williams was a zither musician who traveled widely but lives his later life in Florida.
Playlists
- Tell the Truth! Blues & Gospel by Richard Williams
- Where the Palm Trees Shake at Night: Blues Music From the Florida Folklife Collection
- Shall We Gather at the River: African American Sacred Music
- Dust Tracks: The Complete Performances of Zora Neale Hurston
The Versiteers
Portrait of the Versiteers quartet
The Versiteers were a female a cappella gospel group from Jacksonville founded in the 1940s.
Ida Goodson
Ida Goodson was a jazz pianist born into a musical family near Pensacola in 1909.
She was adept at several different styles of music, including gospel, jazz, blues, vaudeville, and popular songs.
Ida Goodson performs at the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival
More Florida musicians
- Albert "Buck" Thompson performing at 1985 Florida Folk Festival- White Springs, Florida
- Albert "Buck" Thompson playing blues guitar - Hastings, Florida
- Blues and Dixieland musician W.C. Baker with a friend at the Tobacco Road club - Miami, Florida
- Jazz musician Billy Rolle playing the saxophone in Coconut Grove - Miami, Florida
- Johnny Shines (R) playing banjo with folksinger/guitarist Guy Carawan at the Portable Folk Festival - White Springs, Florida
- Martin Zagbo playing a Kora - Orlando, Florida
- Martin Zagbo plays instruments with children at Lake Westen Elementary School - Orlando, Florida
- Members from the Pompey's Temple Church of God in Christ gospel quartet - Hastings, Florida
- Members of the Jamaican Folk Review playing music at the Florida International University - North Miami Beach, Florida
