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Established in 1975, the New Jersey Folk Festival is an annual, FREE,
nonprofit family event, the oldest continuously run folk festival in the
state. Managed by undergraduate students at Rutgers, The State
University, in New Brunswick, the festival is held on the grounds of the
Eagleton Institute on the Douglass campus, always on the last Saturday
of April, rain or shine. Each year the festival attracts more than
15,000 people and is one of the City of New Brunswick's largest,
regularly-scheduled events.
The mission of the New Jersey Folk Festival is to preserve, defend and
protect the music, culture and arts of New Jersey. Therefore, the
primary focus of the New Jersey Folk Festival is on the traditional
indigenous music, crafts and foods of the diverse ethnic and cultural
communities within New Jersey and its surrounding region. Typically, the
event features four stages of music, dance and workshops, a juried craft
market, a children's activities area, a delicious array of food choices
who offer everything from hamburgers, vegetarian fare and funnel cake to
a wide variety of ethnic foods, a folk music marketplace and a Heritage
area which offers a close-up look at each year's ethnic or geographical
theme or other appropriate exhibit.
Each year the festival strives for diversity in selecting performers,
not only seeking out traditional "American" artists, but also reaching
out via field work to the many ethnic communities found within New
Jersey. The annual ethnic or regional feature contributes an essential
intimate connection to these varied cultural groups represented in the
state's population.
The New Jersey Folk Festival is professionally supervised by its founder
and executive director, Angus Kress Gillespie, professor of American
Studies at Rutgers.
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