The legendary rap group, Public Enemy is playing the Newport Folk Festival The group announced last Friday that it would be in the lineup The festival is sold out, but people can get on the ...

It may be five months out, but New Englanders have already been clamoring to find tickets for the 2025 Newport Folk Festival, affectionately called Folk Fest by locals and longtime festival-goers.

When Newport Folk Festival historian and author Rick Massimo walked into a movie theater to see “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, he assumed he would have to suspe ...

The movie's climax is Dylan's performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Dylan performed with an electric band, causing him to be ostracized from the folk scene. James Mangold's new film "A ...

The Newport Folk Festival 2024 continues to prove that “folk” as a term paints an incredibly broad brush, one that brings artists and people together as a community of humans in collaboration and hope ...

The modern iteration of the Newport Folk Festival has made blending the past and the future its brand, but never was that dynamic more present than at this year’s 65th annual festival.

In 1965, Bob Dylan was booed at the Newport Folk Festival for playing an electric guitar. The times, they sure are a changin’. Nowadays at Newport, it’s not odd to hear a metal trio like ...

Newport Folk Festival invites a harmonic crowd of folk fans who boat, bike or drive into Fort Adams State Park for a weekend filled with sonic surprises alongside the expected beautiful ...

Folk music and beyond will once again breathe life into Fort Adams State Park this weekend at the Newport Folk Festival ... in the 1960s for agriculture and animal husbandry where he joined ...

The Newport Folk Festival announced that the tickets for the 2024 festival will be available from Feb. 1. The tickets will go on sale at 1 p.m. on DICE. The Newport Folk Festival said tickets will ...

If you’re thinking about trying to score tickets via resellers, festival organizers note in a press release, “Newport Folk Festival encourages fans not to purchase tickets you see on the ...

Whether by design or by circumstance, the 2023 Newport Folk Festival marked a departure from recent years’ editions, with no blockbuster surprise appearances from giants like Joni Mitchell or ...