Margo Price at Newport – Photo by Jamie Reiley of our friends at Music Savage The anxiety that comes with navigating the Newport Folk Festival’s overlapping sets is something that gets worse for me every […]
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2016 Newport Folk Festival Preview
After many months of a much needed hiatus, we’re back just in time for this weekend’s Newport Folk Festival. As in the past, this year’s lineup consists of a genre-spanning and well-curated melting pot of […]
2016 Newport Folk Festival Tickets for Saturday Sell Out In Hours
Photo: Richard Kluver/grass clippings This morning the Newport Folk Festival began selling tickets for next year’s festival. Without any tips about the headliners, Saturday tickets were gone in just a few hours. Friday and Sunday tickets […]
J.J. Sheffer Wins Best Tattoo of the Newport Folk Festival (Again)
In the four years that we’ve been tracking the Best Tattoos of the Newport Folk Festival, we’ve had two artist winners and one fan winner. This year, those numbers don’t change. The same fan who […]
VOTE NOW: Best Tattoos of the 2015 Newport Folk Festival
All photos by Richard Kluver/grass clippings blog As we have for the last four years, the grass clippings team again scanned festivarian flesh at last weekend’s Newport Folk Festival for stand out tats. While we’re always […]
Sufjan Stevens Joins Newport Folk Festival Lineup
Yesterday, the Newport Folk Festival, our perennial favorite event of the summer, announced that Sufjan Stevens will perform at this year’s Festival in late July. Since seeing Stevens perform at The Beacon Theater in Manhattan […]
Throwback Thursday: Newport Folk Festival Releases 2014 Highlights Reel
This morning, the Newport Folk Festival launched one of the best Throwback Thursday’s we’ve seen in awhile: a reel of some of the best numbers from the 2014 event. Props to Ryan Mastro who does […]
VOTE NOW: Best Tattoos of the 2014 Newport Folk Festival
For the third year in a row, the grass clippings team surveyed festivarian flesh in Newport for the best tats. We are totally confident that we somehow overlooked your pal’s awesome tat (sorry!), but we […]
Superlatives: Newport Folk Festival Class of 2014
If you ever wanted to know what gets talked about in a post-Newport Folk Fest car ride back to Brooklyn, this is the post for you. This year’s acts had us excited even after the music had ended. To that […]
grass clippings’ Third Annual Best Tattoos of the Newport Folk Festival Contest
For the third year in a row, grass clippings is hunting down the best tattoos of the Newport Folk Festival. Our previous tat contests in Newport (Best Tattoos of 2012, Best Tattoos of 2013) have […]
Stef’s Survival Guide: Top 10 Dos and Don’ts of Newport Folk Fest
Our favorite festival of the year is only three days away, and it seems appropriate for us to share our wisdom before a new class of NFFers sets sail to shiny Newport Folk Fest 2014. […]
Newport Folk Festival & ATO Records Partner for Limited Edition Vinyl Series
Last week, ATO and the Newport Folk Festival announced that they will join forces for a series of new limited edition vinyls of ATO artists who will perform or have performed at Newport. The first […]
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