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Transcription: [00:11:23]
Oh they got to show that lady.

The other one you go over there and you see it.

You go home and tell and all your friends and neighbors about it. Because this is the one. And your- if you read your paper, they send a paper about that show, well that’s the one you’ve read about and talked- are talking about.

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So now we’re going to turn you back over, to the man that, you know, brought us all here; he went to a great expense to bring us all here. 50 cent apiece.

[Laughing]

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You may walk away from that other stage thinking that you know all there is to know, thinking that you’ve seen all there is to see over there in the performance. See a little bit of break dancing, hear some gospel music, hear a little bit of do-op and some vocal harmonies. But you really don’t know what you’ve seen until you come to this stage, because on this stage we’re gonna tell you what it all means.

So when you go home, when you’re all through you go home you tell your friends and neighbors and say what we’ve got for you here.

You can say, ‘I not only saw, but I heard him talk’, and more specifically, ‘I know what I’m talking about now, ‘cause I heard him on the workshop stage’.

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So here we are on the workshop narrative stage for the Black Philadelphia Program here at the Festival of American Folk life.

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Now what we’re going to be doing today, this particular workshop is going to deal with traditions of Black entertainment.

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Willie Jones here, right next to me a fella more commonly known in Philadelphia as “Ashcan Jones”, has a long and varied career on the stage.

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He’s worked with everything from circuses and carnivals, to medicine shows and black traveling tent shows. Worked with minstrelsy, worked with vaudeville, been in the movies, been on the stage.

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How many people do you know who could say that at one period of life they were working with an old medicine doctor selling medicine, and in another were appearing with other Lindy Hoppers in the Marx Brothers movie, “Duck Soup”.

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That’s right ladies and gentlemen, this gentleman right next to me is a movie star as well as a Lindy Hopper.