Dominican Music, Crafts to Highlight 33rd New Jersey Folk Festival at Rutgers; School of Engineering and Biological Sciences host 89th Ag Field Day

April 25, 2007

EDITORS NOTE: Attention arts and entertainment, weekend assignment and community editors.

DOMINICAN MUSIC, CRAFTS TO HIGHLIGHT

33rd NEW JERSEY FOLK FESTIVAL AT RUTGERS

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences hosts 89th Ag Field Day

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WHEN:	Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., rain or shine
WHAT:	New Jersey Folk Festival and Ag Field Day
WHERE:	The New Jersey Folk Festival will take place on the grounds of Wood Lawn on the Douglass Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Ag Field Day will be held on the Cook Campus, across the street. Admission is free to both events. Parking will be available in the Douglass parking deck and the Hickman Hall parking lot for $5.
WHO:	Dancers, singers, crafters and storytellers at the folk festival; animals, plants, insects and other wonders of the natural world at Ag Field Day. Dean Robert Goodman of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (the renamed Cook College); and other the staff, faculty and students of Rutgers will be on hand to meet and greet visitors.

BACKGROUND: Dominican singers, dancers, musicians and crafters will be featured at the New Jersey Folk Festival this year, and folk music from many countries will fill the air during this annual rain-or-shine, double celebration of folklore and science at Rutgers. The folk festival is both class work and final exam for the students in Angus Gillespies folk festival management class. Ag Field Day gives visitors a taste of the work done at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences in such fields as animal science, entomology, geography and horticulture.

Contact: Ken Branson

732-932-7084, Ext. 633

E-mail: kbranson@ur.rutgers.edu

Njffagday.madv.ed.doc

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