For the second year in a row, our team scoured the skin of folkers of all kinds to in an effort to find the best tattoos of the Newport Folk Festival. While not every band […]
Month: July 2013
From Newport to NYC: This Week’s Must-See Shows
It’s only been 24 hours since team grass clippings returned from the Newport Folk Fest to the sweaty concrete jungle that is Manhattan … and we’re already nostalgic for the Rhode Island sea. Let’s call […]
Photo Gallery: 2013 Newport Folk Festival
We think of our annual Newport Folk Festival yearbook much like we think about our high school yearbooks. So, keep in touch (KIT) and have a great summer. – Your BFFs (Garland, Stef, Rich, Emily […]
Superlatives: Newport Folk Festival Class of 2013
This year’s class of Newport Folk Fest artists lived up to all the hype … AND our lofty expectations. We thought it only fitting to crown some of the most notable moments and acts with […]
DAY 3 RECAP: 2013 Newport Folk Festival
The forecast was questionable on Sunday, but the Berklee College of Music Gospel Choir just might have cleared things up for us, delivering a stunning arrangement of the old gospel number “It is Well,” to […]
DAY 2 RECAP: 2013 Newport Folk Festival
A stark contrast to a rainy Friday session, Sarah Jarosz kicked off Day Two at the Newport Folk Festival singing “Kingdom by the Sea,” a fitting song for a sunny Saturday at Fort Adams. Hurray […]
Favorite Instagrams at Newport Folk Fest – DAY 1
Well, day one is here and gone … but our memories will live forever in our minds and hearts … and interwebs. Although much of today was a wash (in weather terms, alone), there was […]
DAY 1 RECAP: 2013 Newport Folk Festival
The newly extended Newport Folk Festival kicked off this afternoon with a near-full day of music. Unlike Saturday and Sunday, Friday wasn’t sold out, but the lineup was just as impressive. While the rain put […]
Show Us Your Tats! Best Tattoos in Newport
Last year’s gallery of the Best Tattoos of the 2012 Newport Folk Festival was the most trafficked post on the history of this lil blog. So, we’re doing it again this year! All weekend, we’ll […]
Top 5 Hardest Hours in Newport
For the past few years, I’ve laid out a minute-by-minute guide to the Newport Folk Festival. This year, I tried to continue the tradition (and Stef pulled one together for this year) but it just […]
Stef’s Minute-by-Minute Guide: 2013 Newport Folk Festival
New York, we love you (mostly), but this week, we could sort of care less who’s playing in any of our fine boroughs, so we’re leaving you to your own show-seeking devices. We believe in […]
Andrew Combs – “Suwanee County”
On the bill for Joe Fletcher’s Nashville to Newport on Saturday at the Festival this weekend, our friend and Texas-born Nashville folker Andrew Combs recently stopped by XIXStudios in Los Angeles to record a new song […]
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