Angus Gillespie bids farewell as director of the NJ Folk Festival in New Brunswick

Angus Gillespie built it, and they came. Now, Gillespie, a professor of American Studies at Rutgers University, who founded the hit New Jersey Folk Festival in 1975, is stepping down as the director of the fest as it marks its 45th anniversary Saturday, April 27, on the grounds of the Eagleton Institute on the Douglass Campus at Rutgers University in New Brunswick… The nearby Cook College Ag Field Day takes place simultaneously, and there you can get the eyeful of Cook’s many critters, including horses, pigs, cows and sheep. It’s all become a part of Rutgers Day, a campus-wide open house that features events, performances and demonstrations, that also takes place on Saturday.