Orange’s Music City Festival will celebrate a decade of “community musicology,” where residents, musicians, and scholars explore how music tells the story of the city.

At Whitesbog’s historic Barrel Factory, storytellers, craftspeople, and musicians will gather to keep Pinelands traditions alive through shared, participatory oral history sessions.

In Jersey City, Hudson County Community College’s oral history project captures how cricket, soccer, and local school rivalries bring immigrant and longtime communities together through sport.

At Tuckerton Seaport, local students will conduct oral history interviews with cultural bearers to reveal how everyday objects tell the story of South Jersey’s “sense of place.”