Folk The Vote Newport’s Tradition of Civic Engagement Continues with HeadCount by Every movement needs an anthem – the power of song to bring people together around a common cause. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Music is the soul of the movement.” Few anthems...
Remembering Earl Scruggs at 100 by It’s impossible to think of bluegrass music today without Earl Scruggs. The prints of his fingerpicks are everywhere. And this month, he would have turned 100. Earl Scruggs is the man who invented the modern bluegrass banjo, and as a...
Fortune, Coincidence, and Karma: The Return of Dylan’s Guitar by Music is made up of moments, and some moments turn into legends. Arguably the most legendary is “Dylan Goes Electric.” Three words that came to connote breaking free of confines, taking...
Odetta, Ginger Ale, and the First Newport Folk Festival Newport artists remember the artist who helped inspire it all. by What compelled George Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, to launch a folk festival back in 1959? Two things: Ginger ale and Odetta....
