On September 9, 2007, the borough’s most popular cultural event was again located in the Shadyside section of Edgewater and on Edgewater Commons.

The day long Edgewater Arts & Jazz Festival included fine arts, crafts, sculpture and photography competition that was professionally juried, plus the popular People’s Choice category in which visitors to the festival cast their votes. The five Best of Show awards totaled $2,600.  Winners are listed at the end of this article.

For the first time, all the music was all that jazz – performed on the Bergen County Showmobile stage by prominent jazz musicians (listed below).

For the fourth year, the Vintage Automobile Show was organized and hosted by the Edgewater Cultural & Historical Committee.
 
Since 1998, the Borough of Edgewater has closed the Shadyside section to traffic so visitors can stroll freely on Old River Road, sit and listen to music and pause for refreshments. Free shuttle busses transport them to and from Edgewater Commons Shopping Center, for the auto show and free parking.

According to Neda Rose, founder and president of the Edgewater Arts Council that sponsors the annual festival, attendance averages an aggregate of 2,000 to 2,500 visitors before the sun goes down, the tents are folded and the caravan of cars moves out of Thompson Lane.

The Edgewater Arts Council is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, private organization of volunteers, dedicated to broadening awareness of visual and performing arts and crafts. Support for the Arts Council traditionally comes from commercial and private benefactors, advertising in Festival Program books and on banners, fundraising projects and grants from the Borough of Edgewater.

Additional funding is made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Department of State, through grant funds administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs.

Arts Festival Awards


Best of Show

$1,000 

Ninetta Nappi 
Best Art

500 

Marian Barton 
Best Photography

500 

Debra Tobias 
Best Craft

500 

Adrian Garcia 
People’s Choice

100 

Robert Bredin 
Children’s Fund

140 

EVG School 

Jazz Artists

  • Curtis Lundy Quintet
  • Lauren Hooker Trio (John di Martino and Belden Bullock)
  • Keith Loving
  • Trio West
  • The James L. Dean Big Band

Host

  • Sheila Anderson,  WBGO Jazz 88

Program Coordinator

  • Larry Lipsen