New York Folklore Quarterly: Volume XVIII, No. 4

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. XVIII, No. 4, Winter, 1962

FOCUS ON FOLK FESTIVALS

Two new Folk Festivals were held last fall in New York State. The following reports were prepared by participants in the programs, both of whom know the difficulties involved in planning such affairs, but who know the importance of folk festivals to spread the interest in folklore and to move it in the proper direction. The NYFQ hopes to announce and report on all similar activities as they are scheduled throughout the State.
THE FIRST ANNUAL WOODSTOCK FOLK FESTIVAL
DURING three days and two nights, beginning on Friday, September 14, and ending on Sunday, September 16, 1962, the air of Woodstock was alive with the twanging of banjos and guitars and the voices of singers, square-dance callers, and tellers of tall tales. For, under the sponsorship of the newly-formed Ulster County Folklore Society, the First Annual Woodstock Folk Festival was in progress, dedicated to the proposition that a folk festival should be fun and that if the audience participates the fun is doubled. Appropriately enough, the promoters of the festival did not hire a hall but took over the one-time estate of the late J. P. McEvoy, popular writer and party-giver of the 1920s and ’30s. With swimming pools, tennis courts, spacious lawns and shady groves at their elbows, an audience distinguished by youth and enthusiasm made no bones about the fact that it was enjoying itself mightily....

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