Berkeley Folk Music Festival Digital Exhibit Receives Award 

Certificate given to Berkeley Folk Music Festival Director Barry Olivier by master of ceremonies and musician Sam Hinton for the 1965 Berkeley Folk Music Festival.

The Popular Culture Association has awarded the 2022 Allen Ellis Digital Research Award in Popular Culture to The Berkeley Folk Music Festival & the Folk Revival on the US West Coast—An Introduction. Thanks to SUNY Brockport librarian Mary Jo Orzech for nominating the project. The free Popular Culture Association membership that comes with the award will be given to a SUNY Brockport student interested in attending the 2022 PCA Virtual Conference and studying popular culture more deeply. For more about the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, visit bfmf.net.

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