Image courtesy of the Newport Festivals Foundation At the end of another triumphant year of music and community, the Newport Festivals Foundation has ...

It's that time of year again when the only thing hotter than the weather outside is the music coming from Fort Adams. The 2025 Newport Folk Festival is ready to jam out July 25-27 and the Newport Jazz ...

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 ...

The Newport Folk Festival will return to Fort Adams State Park in Rhode Island to celebrate its 66th anniversary. One of the longest-running and most storied festivals in America will return July ...

In a move that outraged folk purists, Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. But was the crowd's anger ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WJAR) — The Newport Folk Festival resumed Friday evening after severe weather forced the music celebration to hit pause for about an hour. Less than an hour before the starting gun at ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — The lineup has yet to be released, but tickets are going on sale for the iconic Newport Folk Festival next week. The festival says all tickets will go on sale at 1 p.m. on ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Newport Folk Fest is set to resume after strong storms moved through the area on Friday. Attendees got the go-ahead to return to Fort Adams around 5 p.m. They were ordered to ...

“Newport & the Great Folk Dream” is a rapturous documentary — elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical black-and-white images and performances that have a timeless power. The movie tells the ...