The Newport Folk Festival will return to Fort Adams State Park in Rhode Island to celebrate its 65th anniversary. One of the longest-running and most storied festivals in America will return July ...

The upcoming film 'Newport & The Great Folk Dream' is packed with rare footage of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Johnny Cash, and other icons.

Over the years, the number of people arriving at the Newport Folk Festival by bike has steadily climbed. With current averages at 1,600 bikes per day, the highest number counted was 1,800 in a single ...

What is “folk” music? The Newport Folk Festival just celebrated its 65th year, where respectful nods to the origins of the form mixed with more modern interpretations. Joan Baez buzzed between poetry ...

“I’m here to prove I can ruin any genre,” said Conan O’Brien from the Fort Stage with an electric guitar strapped across his chest. The television host and comedian from Brookline closed out the 2024 ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Tickets for this year’s Newport Folk Festival at Fort Adams State Park will go on sale to the public at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 1. The festival announced Monday that tickets ...

Start booking your reservations, the dates of the 2026 Newport Folk Festival have been announced. Festival organizers announced on Tuesday, Aug. 5, that next year's three-day festival at Fort Adams ...

2024 was a truly monumental year for Newport, R.I.’s music scene. As both of the Newport Festivals Foundation’s crowning achievements in the summer live circuit celebrated landmark anniversaries—65 ...

A sign near the entrance of the Newport Folk Festival, reminding festival goers to "Be present. Be kind. Be open. Be together." July 25, 2025, Rhode Island.(Courtesy Sara Shukla) When I describe the ...

It may be five months out, but New Englanders have already been clamoring to find tickets for the 2025 Newport Folk Festival, ...

The considerable longevity of the Newport Folk Festival (founded in 1959), and its singular place in American musical and political culture, makes it a natural case study. As we all know, two ...