Guitar Player

Hi Francis again - this is a cool image in terms of colour and concentration (or lack of - those fingers seem to know what they're about). If you hadn't said it's a festival II would have thought it a studio shot - more context (band, location and all the bass) would help.

Andy

He was part of a band on a stage outdoors that was playing at the Highwaymen Festival (an art festival) in Fort Pierce, Florida. There was a singer and a person on sax and drums and one other but I don't recall his instrument. It was an all black band as the festival is an annual celebration of black artists from Fort Pierce who, during the 1950s and '60s predominantly but up through the '80s, sold paintings of Florida landscape from the backs of their cars along route 1 because they could not exhibit in galleries under Jim Crowe laws. Many were taught and helped by a famous white local artists named "Bean" Backus. They learned from Backus and imitated his style of colorful Florida images of nature. They painted on wood and framed with cheap molding. A few original Highwaymen are still alive today but now their work has been carried on by wives, children and other disciples. The original Highwaymen's work now sells in the thousands. Backus' work in the tens of thousands. There is a local Backus Museum which also features the work of the Highwaymen.