Tag Archives: Newport Folk Festival

Newport Folk Festival fans the folk flame.

August 1, 2012 | Bruce Sylvester | 0

Last weekend’s Newport Folk Festival presented the future and long-ago past of American roots music. ►

Discover the many faces of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan

July 10, 2012 | Susan Sliwicki | 0

Bob Dylan silver gelatin print by John Cohen

Always one to eschew predictability, Bob Dylan embarked on a tangled trajectory that veered from folk and religion to rock and weirdness in his 50-year recording career. ►

Newport Folk Festival 2012 is totally sold out except for Friday’s Wilco show.

April 25, 2012 | Bruce Sylvester | 0

This July’s Newport Folk Festival is already totally sold out except for Friday evening’s show by Wilco, Blitzen Trapper, and Megafaun. ►

Newport Folk Festival 2010 finds common ground

August 3, 2010 | Bruce Sylvester | 0

Newport Folk Festival: Folk’s old guard bonds with the young neotrads ►

‘The Blues Rolls On’ for guitar great Elvin Bishop

April 13, 2010 | Zach Sorscher@fwmedia.com | 0

Elvin Bishop sounded upbeat on the phone from his northern California farm.

He’s just released The Blues Rolls On (a cross-generational collaboration reaching from B.B. King to the school-age Homemade Jamz Blues Band), and his crops are thriving.
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