All photos by Richard Kluver/grass clippings blog The biggest story of Day One at the 2015 Newport Folk Festival closed it, with My Morning Jacket not only serving as Roger Waters’ surprise backing band, but […]
Category: Festivals
Show Us Your Tats, Newport: 4th Annual Grass Clippings Best Tattoos Contest
For the fourth year in a row, grass clippings is hunting down the best tattoos of the Newport Folk Festival. All weekend, we’ll be walking around the festival asking artists and festivarians about their tats. […]
Introducing Newport Drawings by Vi Luong
Over the last year, grass clippings designer Vi Luong has gained a solid following on Instagram for his phenomenal drawings of buildings, people and objects around New York and throughout his travels. This year we’re excited to say that […]
Floyd Fest 2015 Preview
Photo: Dustbowl Revival by Becca Murray By Kevin Fuller While the masses of Americana fans descend on Newport, Rhode Island this weekend, another music festival promises to light the mountains of southern Appalachia on fire. […]
How Should Dylan’s Newport Electric Set Be Recognized This Weekend?
This coming weekend, the Newport Folk Festival will mark the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s historic electric set with a secret lineup on Sunday entitled “65 Revisited.” Dylan’s set, which won both praise and boos […]
Andy Shauf’s Reverse System of Song Arrangement
Newport freshman and Canadian singer-songwriter Andy Shauf recorded The Bearer of Bad News (Amazon & Spotify) by himself in a basement in Regina, Saskatchewan. Discussing the album on WFUV a few months back, Shauf outlined […]
A Lonely Love Song by Baltimore Folk Duo The Honey Dewdrops
Late last week, Baltimore-based folk duo The Honey Dewdrops released their fourth album, Tangled Country (Amazon). The pair of native-Virginians, Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish, was also my favorite discovery at MerleFest a couple weeks […]
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 […]
At Brooklyn Folk Festival, A Diverse Lineup With a Tight Grip on The Past
Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton – Photo by Arnie Goodman For better or for worse, indie rock and poppy Americana have each creeped into nearly every folk festival out there. Meanwhile in post-everything Brooklyn, the purist […]
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 […]
RECAP & PHOTOS: 3rd Annual Brooklyn Bluegrass Bash at The Bell House
Fast times last weekend at The Bell House in Gowanus for another epic Brooklyn Bluegrass Bash, which included hilarious rants by Americana badass David Bromberg, phenomenal fiddling from Darol Anger, Bruce Molsky and Brittany Haas, […]
CMJ Pick: Buffalo Stack Performs in Brooklyn Tonight
While Nashville seems to be the escape plan of most NYC-based musicians these days, Andy Stack moved upstate to Hudson after 13 years playing “every gig in town.” Tired of lugging his gear around on […]
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