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.
By Neil Patch Photos by Daniel Schiffer While rain ultimately defeated Prospect Park’s Great Googa Mooga in its second year of existence, and it successfully demonstrated a model of how to combine a neighborhood community festival with wider regional (and perhaps national) attention. Googa Mooga bills itself as an “amusement park of food, salve drink […]
Upon its announcement, the inaugural Boston Calling music festival was met by most with excitement, some with skepticism, and all with a sincere hope for its success. It had been a few years since City…
A cursory glance at the current slate of summer music festival lineups–namely Governor’s Ball, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, and even Delaware’s Firefly (yes, Delaware!)–already displays quite a bit of overlap. Mumford & Sons, Bjork, The Lumineers, The XX, Kendrick Lamar, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes, Of Monsters and Men…