Folk Project Festivals

Click on the above picture to see photos of our Fall '07 Festival

Our festivals are organized events with scheduled performers, workshops, dances, round robins (singalongs), skits, canoeing, etc. Activities take place at many sites around the campground. Performers and attendees eat, talk, and spend time next to each other, giving the Festival its feel of being backstage the whole time.

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Online Festival Registration Coming Soon

We are in the last stages of debugging the online registration to the upcoming TESTival. Check back here shortly.

The Festival is Moving!

A Note from the Festival Chair

Starting this fall, the Festival is moving to a new site, Star Lake Camp in Bloomingdale, New Jersey. We hope that Star Lake will be more suited to our needs. The camp is located 30 minutes north of Morristown, NJ and sits on 400 acres of woods and lakes.

Star Lake provides three tiers of accommodations which we hope will meet everyone's needs:

There are rustic cabins with cots, not bunk beds, so no more top bunks,
An intermediate level, called The Commons, provides actual beds and a bath that is shared by four people,
The Lodge is like a hotel, with two twin beds per room and private baths. Please note that the Lodge is only available to adult festival-goers, age 18 and up.

And, yes, Star Lake has given us permission to shoot the potato gun!!!

Save the Dates:

Testival: September 20-21, 2008

Spring 2009 Festival: April 17-19, 2009

Our next event is the "Testival" - a test run of our new digs at Star Lake. We have reserved the camp from Saturday morning through Sunday evening. This will be a low-key weekend, with a roster of Folk Project performers, a dance, and a few workshops. By the time we booked with Star Lake, Columbus Day weekend was taken, so we went with a weekend in September. This may be to our advantage as there will be boating on the lake and swimming as well, if the weather cooperates.

Our next Spring festival will not be on Mother's Day weekend. We have heard from many of you over the years that conflicting with Mother's Day makes it very difficult for you to attend festival. So the Spring '09 festival will take place in April. And yes, we have also booked Star Lake for the Fall '09 Festival, Columbus Day weekend 2009.

Watch this space in the coming months for further details about these events. As always, if you'd like to help out with the planning or have any suggestions, drop me a line at .

Lori Falco
Festival Chair

Posters

Here are some PDFs of posters showing the new camp that can be printed out showing the site and the accommodations at Star Lake.

Pictures of the New Location

Here are pictures showing our new Festival location. Click on any photo below to see a larger version and get more information about what is shown.

The Site

The site is very rustic, on a hill overlooking Star Lake.

By the Lake

Star Lake has a small, lower section and a larger, upper section.

The Facilities

The Concert Hall is on the second floor above the Dining Hall, with the dance area in a nearby building.

The Accomodations

There are 3 kinds of accomodations at Star Lake: Cabins in the woods, The Commons in the same building as the Dining/Concert Hall, and a hotel called The Lodge one mile from the Festival site.

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