Newport Folk Festival News

Five decades after her breakout performance at the first Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez is still recording and performing, including a set at the 50th anniversary of that debut this past summer.

Jimmy Buffett performs at the Newport Folk Festival in August, 2008. The streamed performances at Wolfgang's Vault, however, go back much further than this.

FILE - In this July 29, 1968 file photo, singer Janis Joplin performs at the Newport Folk Festival... FILE - In this July 29, 1968 file photo, singer Janis Joplin performs at the Newport Folk Festival with her band Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Her remarkable career is recounted in a remarkable edition of "American Masters" airing at Wednesday at 7 p.m. on WYES-Channel 12.

The combustible acoustic quartet the Felice Brothers, whose unplanned unplugged set at the Newport Folk Festival last year launched roots rock legend, channeled the fire performing in New York City subways.

It was an event that the Providence, R.I., trio had attended for years. "We were on the recycling crew the year before!" laughs bassist Jeff Prystowsky.

Sean Scolnick, from Langhorne, PA, performs in the guise of his alt/Americana persona, Langhorne Slim, a gospel-infused New England style folk that has won him acclaim from NPR and much attention at the Newport Folk Festival.

Boom Days will get off to a bluesy start Saturday when vocalist and famed blues drummer Sam Lay takes the stage.

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Elvis Perkins @ the 2009 Newport Folk Festival Titus Andronicus and The So So Glos , who are hitting the road together, play the first show of that trip at Monster Island Basement with The Smith Westerns .

Ken Franckling is an award-winning jazz writer and photographer who has been covering the mainstream jazz scene for more than 20 years for a variety of publications.

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Barely over a week ago, folk icon Joan Baez celebrated the 50th anniversary of her first performance at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, with a repeat performance in the same spot.

Known for his blazing-hot slide guitar playing, Louisiana native Sonny Landreth might be the last person you'd expect to find charged up about performing at a folk festival.

Images by: Jim Brueckner Newport Folk Festival :: 08.01.09 & 08.02.09 :: Fort Adams State Park :: Newport, RI Newport Folk Fest 2009 The Newport Folk Festival is one of the longest running music festivals in America, and this year she celebrated her 50th anniversary with a huge array of artists spanning generations, countries and languages.

All Songs Considered continues its celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival, now known as George Wein's Folk Festival 50.

While we fought rain at the second annual All Points West , the newly expanded Decemberists took a break from their start-to-finish The Hazards Of Love renditions to introduce a couple new songs to fans at the 50th Newport Folk Festival, aka the so-called Folk Festival 50.

A singer, songwriter and guitar-builder, Guy Clark has a name that's not as well-known as some of the stars who've sung his songs.

After first attracting national attention as a teenager, Ben Kweller has grown beyond his early years as an upstart power-pop singer thanks to a developing infatuation with singer-songwriters of the '60s and '70s. His newest record, Changing Horses , makes good on both its title and Kweller's Texas roots by filtering his sunny, irreverent ...

When the legendary Newport Folk Festival started in Rhode Island in 1959, organizers sought to bring together a diverse mix of artists who represented the far-reaching branches of folk music, including gospel, protest songs and the pop music of the day.