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Week 6 of Newport Folk Festival Lineup Announcements – Wow!
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Week 6 started off with a fabulous double announcement!
This week’s additions to the lineup are:
Conor Oberst – an incredible songwriterm with Dawes as his backing band
Dawes – a fabulous band from California, doing their own set as well as backing Conor Oberst
Aiofe O’Donovan – wonderful singer-songwriter who I’ve had the privilege to see a number of times
Reignwolf – a bluesman who was named one of the ten artists we need to know by Rolling Stone magazine
Rodrigo y Gabriela – rhythmic guitarists from Mexico who I missed due to a conflict at their recent Boston show
The lineup, so far, includes:
Friday: The Devil Makes Three, Band of Horses, Death Vessel, Jenny Lewis, Phox, Robert Hunter, Reignwolf
Saturday: Shakey Graves, The Oh Hellos, Benjamin Booker, Nickel Creek, Shovels and Rope, Houndmouth, J. Roddy Walston & The Business, The Milk Carton Kids, Aoife O’Donovan
Sunday: Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mavis Staples, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Trampled by Turtles, Gregory Alan Isakov, Lucero, Caitlin Rose, Conor Oberst, Dawes, Rodrigo y Gabriela
Another Interesting Set of Lineup Announcements for Newport Folk Festival
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Wow, week 5 started off with a fabulous announcement!
This week’s additions to the lineup are:
Robert Hunter – the great lyricist of The Grateful Dead
Lucero – a Memphis-based band that’s been described as country-punk
Caitlin Rose – singer-songwriter from Nashville
The Milk Carton Kids – an indie folk/Americana duo from California (I love these guys and am delighted that they’ll be back at the Fort this year)
The lineup, so far, includes:
Friday: The Devil Makes Three, Band of Horses, Death Vessel, Jenny Lewis, Phox, Robert Hunter
Saturday: Shakey Graves, The Oh Hellos, Benjamin Booker, Nickel Creek, Shovels and Rope, Houndmouth, J. Roddy Walston & The Business, The Milk Carton Kids
Sunday: Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mavis Staples, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Trampled by Turtles, Gregory Alan Isakov, Lucero, Caitlin Rose
Newport Folk Festival Lineup, Week 4
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Wow, week 4 started off with a fabulous announcement!
This week’s additions to the lineup are:
Trampled by Turtles – bluegrass on speed
Phox – an interesting act from Wisconsin
J. Roddy Walston & The Business – rock and rollers from Maryland via Tennessee
Gregory Alan Isakov – singer-songwriter born in South Africa, based in Colorado
The lineup, so far, includes:
Friday: The Devil Makes Three, Band of Horses, Death Vessel, Jenny Lewis, Phox
Saturday: Shakey Graves, The Oh Hellos, Benjamin Booker, Nickel Creek, Shovels and Rope, Houndmouth, J. Roddy Walston & The Business
Sunday: Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mavis Staples, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Trampled by Turtles, Gregory Alan Isakov
Week 3 of Newport Folk Festival Lineup Announcements
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This week of Newport Folk Festival announcements started with an excellent one! So far, there are a couple of bands that I’ve wanted to see for a while but have missed either due to conflicts or selling out before I bought a ticket. Now I’ll have my chance!
This week’s additions to the lineup are:
The Devil Makes Three – an Americana band based in California
Shakey Graves – an Austin native singer-songwriter
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – folk-rockers based in San Francisco (I will admit to not being excited about this band – I saw them a year ago and would have left early but I was driving and the friend I was with did not want to leave – but I’m open-minded and might give them another chance depending on who else is playing on another stage at the sme time)
The lineup, so far, includes:
Friday: The Devil Makes Three, Band of Horses, Death Vessel, Jenny Lewis
Saturday: Shakey Graves, The Oh Hellos, Benjamin Booker, Nickel Creek, Shovels and Rope, Houndmouht
Sunday: Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mavis Staples, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
Newport Folk Festival Announcements, Week Two!
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What interesting announcements this week from Newport Folk Festival! Four acts were announced and I only know two of them – and one of those two is merely a name I recognize.
The acts are:
Benjamin Booker – a New Orleans based singer-songwriter
Death Vessel – Rhode Island based
The Oh Hellos – a little bit of Texas
Band of Horses – I’m excited about this act because their show next week in Somerville, Massachusetts sold out before I could get tickets!
Newport Folk Festival Starts Rolling Lineup Announcements
I’m a relative newcomer to the Newport Folk Festival. The first year I attended was 2012 and I think it will be a part of my life for years to come.
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Last year (I believe), NFF decided to do rolling announcements of the lineup rather than announcing the entire lineup at the same time. It’s part frustrating (because I want to know NOW) but mostly exciting (who’s going to be announced NEXT).
First Rocktober Show!
I had heard that The Ballroom Thieves are a good rock band disguised as a folk band, which proved to be an accurate description of them.
They are a young, Boston-based band with a CD and an EP under their belts and I was excited to see them at The Sinclair, a small-ish venue I enjoy. Read the rest of this entry
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