The NEFFA festival was founded in 1944, long before several more famous folk festivals, such as the Philadelphia Folk Festival (1962) and the Newport Folk Festival (1959).
Nowadays, the biggest draw is the Philadelphia Folk Festival in August, and the Perkiomen Trail which is popular with bikers, runners and walkers year-round, and stretches the length of the township along the old railroad right-of-way.
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In the US, they played at the 1971 Philadelphia Folk Festival, and performed at the Gerde's Folk City, and with Bonnie Raitt in Tuft's College, Boston; they were also the first band to open at the Bottom Line nightclub in New York.