New Jersey’s Troubadour, folk songstress and educator Valerie Vaughn of Tuckerton has been awarded the N.J. Heritage Fellowship in Folk Arts from the State Council on the Arts, and she feels, in a word, “fantabulous.”
Nominated by the Tuckerton Seaport and the Jersey Shore Folklife Center, Vaughn was one of only 10 New Jersey artists to receive the inaugural award on Tuesday, July 25, at the Arts Council’s 57th annual meeting in Trenton, where more than $30 million in grants were announced to…
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