In Florida, Gamble Rogers and Will McLean were the best known of the folkies. Friends of Florida Folk keeps all of us interacting with a list and a website and magazine, not to mention hosting many get togethers.
The Florida Folk Festival in May in White Springs, The Will McLean Festival in March in Dade City, The South Florida Folk Festival in January, the Old Time Music Championships and countless other small festivals, jams, dance, and venues bring the many Florida folkies together.
Doug Gauss is here in Tallahassee. Sue Grooms is in Gainesville. Dash Moore is around St. Augustine. We have Dale Crider and Pat and Ann Thomas, Cheryl and Ray Belanger,Gove Scrivenor, Mark Fackeldy, Robin Plitt is down south, Hot Flash, Upsala, and The Ashley gang. There are a whole lot of us, too numerous too mention and since Florida is a big beautiful state, we come together from the far corners...my favorite time is during organge processing in the spring in Dade City...the smell is intoxicating when we ride through town for events in Pasco county...