The New Jersey Folk Festival was an annual festival presented under the auspices of the American Studies Department from 1975 - 2024. The festival celebrated regional folk culture–folk arts, folk music, and contemporary crafts to stimulate awareness and appreciation for folklore and folk-life, past and present. For an archive of materials, digitized programs, and other information about the legacy of the New Jersey Folk Festival at Rutgers University, please visit our archive website: https://njfolkfest.sas.rutgers.edu/
The New Jersey Folk Festival now continues its life under the management of an independent non-profit, the New Jersey Folk Festival Inc. For information on the continuing New Jersey Folk Festival, see www.njfolkfest.org
The last faculty Co-Directors of the festival were Dr. Carla Cevasco and Dr. Maria Kennedy. For information about the festival's history at Rutgers, please contact:
Maria Kennedy, PhD
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