Clifton Fifer ~ Buffalo Soldier Song

Clifton Fifer -- Buffalo Soldier Song

Performed by Clifton Fifer at the Texas Heritage Music Foundation/Schreiner University Coffeehouse Series at Schreiner U's Cailloux Student Center, February 2007, in celebration of Black History Month.

Clifton is a two-time Texas State Teacher of the Year as a social studies and history teacher at Peterson Middle School. He is also an actor and musician, having won Earnest T. Player Awards for his roles in Driving Miss Daisy, Big River, Lilies of the Field and To Kill a Mockingbird.

He travels the state doing living history shows on African-Americans and Native Americans in Texas, combining these into his stories of Buffalo Soldiers in the West. Clifton is a presenter for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Buffalo Soldier program, and also does shows on the evolution of native American music styles with Tony Gallucci.

The Coffeehouse is put on monthly by Dr. Kathleen Hudson, executive director of the Texas Heritage Music Foundation of Kerrville, Texas, and is hosted by student Prairie Flower. In addition to Clifton, other performers for February included Miss Nash, Conan, Lorraine Lemon, Jessica Lott, and the Greg Griffin Blues Band.

Check out the Texas Heritage Music Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the great variety of Texas music, and encouraging education and scholarship. In addition to the Coffeehouse Series, the foundation puts on an annual Texas Living History Day, celebrates the birthday of the Father of Country Music, Jimmie Rodgers, and provides a scholarship for a promising student musician to attend college.

http://www.texasheritagemusic.org/

Filmed and produced by Tony Gallucci, Milk River Film.

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[Keroro9864]

Clifton stole my last name!

[Trumpetz811]

"Pig" is my cousin... he's not embarrassed about nothing... although sometimes he should be. lol

[MrPimpinman]

man couch i havent seen you in for ever coach you had the best history class zack palermo

[guitarman6823]

@Barbatus01 so am i

[guitarman6823]

@calvin232323 same with mine!!!!!!!

[calvin232323]

coach fifer was my 7th grade teacher...total badass GO COACH FIFER!!!

[memalephyudth]

@themaxpowers the song is named Buffalo Soldier and the Persuasions sang their rendition of it and it was awesome, during Vietnam era every black Soldier sung the song when we got half way back home because that was when the other people began to change back to their evil selfves. not being negative but it was true.

[poshportia62]

How do you keep a people down? You 'never' let them 'know' their history.

The 7th Cavalry got their butts in a sling again after Little Big Horn, fourteen years later, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. If it wasn't for the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, there would of been a second massacre of the 7th. Read, and visit site/history, rescue at pine ridge. com

[Barbatus01]

Go Mr. Fifer!!! I am one of your students

[MrPimpinman]

you rock