New Jersey Folk Festival Welcomes an International Visitor
Elena Poptodorova, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the U.S., lauded the New Jersey Folk Festival as a wonderful way to celebrate Bulgarian music and culture.
Amid the twirls of colorful Bulgarian costumes and the whirling of artisans’ spinning wheels, Rutgers University welcomed Elena Poptodorova, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the U.S., to its celebration of Bulgarian music and culture on Saturday at the 38th annual New Jersey Folk Festival. Poptodorova, the first Ambassador to accept the NJ Folk Festival’s invitation to attend, praised event organizers and Rutgers for their effort to celebrate New Jersey’s Bulgarian population, as well as to familiarize others with Bulgaria’s vast culture. “I believe that the effort of Americans to disseminate, to make more popular, my country’s signature art is most important – not more – most important,” …
