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The Folk Project is a not-for-profit folk music, storytelling, and dance organization which sponsors or organizes a wide variety of folk activities in the Northern New Jersey area.Follow the links on this and related pages to learn more about our offerings and activities. Please consider becoming a member if you would like to support these activities and receive our monthly newsletter. Support has been provided in part through funds from the Arts Council of the Morris Area through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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The Folk Project is affiliated with other local organizations that share its interest in folk music, dance, and storytelling. We encourage you to attend their activities. FP members get discounts.
Joining the Folk Project gives you discounts, a monthly newsletter, involvement with a wonderful musical community, and the respect of discerning folk musicians worldwide. Click
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for a complete list of the benefits of membership |
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for a membership form that can be printed out and mailed in |
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for on-line registration with credit card payment |
Many of our members perform on a regular basis. If you are looking for a folk musician to perform
at one of your functions, check out our Performers Resource List, or send email to
and ask for help in finding exactly the right performer for your needs.
Want to join a discussion group of Folk Project members and activities? Then click here.
There is a comprehensive listing of folk music activities in the US accessed either by artist or state from Dirty Linen folk music magazine.
There is also the Musi-Cal music events database that covers all sorts of music including folk. This database can be queried geographically (in city Y, or within X miles of city Y) or by performer.
Here is a note about web listings for those who would like to see our events listed on their website.
To find out who we are, how we are organized, and how to get in touch with us, click 
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You will be taken to a page that presents our organization and identifies our officers, committee chairs, and board members.
We welcome announcements from local folk organizations to be handed out at our venues or included in our newsletter. Please send such materials to this address:
The Folk Project PO Box 41 Mendham, NJ 07945
It would also help if you could identify which of our venues you would like the information sent to. You can do this by adding a line such as
ATTN: Minstrel, Newsletter
to the address. The following are likely names you might want to use:
Here are links to other folk-music oriented home pages:
The following are some of the artists who have either been booked at one of our venues or are performing members of the Folk Project. Together, they demonstrate the kind of music and level of musicianship the Folk Project represents. Click 
for a complete list of past Minstrel performers, or click ![[here]](pics/tapes.gif){kind=small}
for past performers on our folk project TV show "Horses Sing None of It…".
NOTE: The performers below have links to websites that describe them or their music. Such links are shown below as 
for the first link and 
for a second link. Simply click on the star to follow the link.
Artists with a ![[Image]](pics/gadpc20x20b.gif){kind=small}
button following their names
have special experimental CD-quality sound clips available from AT&T at www.digitalphono.com.
Simply click on the button to get to the clips for each artist. You will need to download the free experimental AT&T player to hear them.
| Ad Vielle Que Pourra |
Jack Hardy |
Lisa Moscatiello |
| Mike Agranoff |
Harmonytryx |
Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman |
| Les Barker |
Don Henry |
Nerissa & Katryna Nields |
| Lou & Peter Berryman |
John Herald |
Nightingale |
| Gordon Bok |
Hickory Project |
Roia Rafieyan |
| Roy Book Binder |
Anne Hills |
Jean Ritchie |
| Bryan Bowers |
Pat Humphries |
John Roberts & Tony Barrand |
| Broadside Electric |
The Johnson Girls |
Garnet Rogers |
| Chuck Brodsky |
Billy Jonas |
Claudia Schmidt |
| Akire Bubar |
Cindy Kallet |
Eric Schwartz |
| David Buskin |
Kallet, Epstein, & Cicone |
Silk City |
| Dave Carter & Tracy Grammar |
James Keelaghan |
Small Potatoes |
| Lui Collins |
The Kennedys |
Michael Smith |
| Dave's True Story |
Jeremy Kittel |
Zoe Speaks |
| Pat Donohue |
David LaMotte |
Bill Staines |
| Finest Kind |
Zoe Lewis |
Orrin Star |
| Flapjack |
Ralph Litwin |
Tanglefoot |
| Deirdre Flint |
The Luminescent Orchestrii |
The Tannahill Weavers |
| John Flynn |
Joel Mabus |
Teada |
| Bob Franke |
Mad Agnes |
Guy Van Duser |
| Full Frontal Folk |
Magpie |
April Verch |
| Ken Galipeau |
David Massengill |
Walkabout Clearwater Chorus |
| Mary Gauthier |
The McDades |
Camille West |
| Vance Gilbert |
Sara Milonovich & Greg Anderson |
Jack Williams |
| Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen |
Modern Man |
The WIYOs |
| Greg Greenway |
Buddy Mondlock |
Charlie Zahm |
| Groovelily |
Music guides & resources:
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Storytelling:
Commercial:
The Folk Project web site is part of the following Web Ring. Please use the navigation links provided below to jump to other sites on the ring.
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