“Maybe someday if I ever got the chance, I’d like to do one of these festivals myself.” Dr. Angus Gillespie shares his memories of the early beginnings of the New Jersey Folk Festival, from its inspiration and his first students, to where to site the event at the Woodlawn Mansion on the Cook Campus.

Our producer, Dani Daboll, is a student in Landscape Architecture at Rutgers. She is the Logistics and Site Management intern for the Folk Festival.

Dr. Angus Gillespie founded the New Jersey Folk Festival in 1975 on the Douglass College campus of Rutgers and ran the festival until 2019. 
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