Newport Folk Festival 2024: America’s Favorite Festival

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Another year of Newport Folk Festival, another amazing iteration of one of America’s staple music festivals. Emily Gardner and Abby Stanicek tagged team coverage.

The Ups and Ehs of Newport Folk Festival 2013

Newport is a hell of a place, and along with its insurmountable summer atmosphere comes a bounty of tradition and history. That sense of tradition has carried over into the resort town’s premiere summer event: the Newport Folk Festival. While recent years have reflected a stretch towards other genres, 2013 went back to the Festival’s roots and remained more tethered to the standard perception of folk.