Dear Friends,
Welcome to the 30" annual New Jersey Folk Festival! I am privileged to welcome festival performers, vendors, and patrons to the 30" anniversary extravaganza. The festival's rich history of folk music, original crafts, and fun family activities will continue this year and for many years to come.
To help commemorate our 30" anniversary, all musicians performing this year are returning from previous festivals. The 2004 New Jersey Folk Festival will be a day full of reunions. The festivities will be kicked off by Frank Watson and his Scottish bagpipes. New Jersey9s own, Tony Trischka will be playing banjo on our Skylands stage, with longtime band, Skyline. Among the notable reunions will be the return of the Festival's first music coordinator, Kathy DeAngelo, along with her band, The Lentil Soup Boys, whose members Peter Anick and Alan Pagliere performed at the first New Jersey Folk Festival in 1975.
Along with great music, we have a wide variety of food, amazing crafts and for the little folks, a children9s area complete with pony rides and crazy crafts. A key focus this year is on the unique cultural diversity the New Jersey has to offer. Special events taking place in our heritage area include, a huge flag commemorating the World Trade Center disaster, basket weaving, duck decoy carving and festival favorites, the Briar Rose Farm wool spinners. Whether this is your first festival or your thirtieth, I hope that you enjoy the day and all it has to offer!
Sincerely,
Morgan Grass
2004 New Jersey Folk Festival Manager