Faves: Sharon Jones, Avett Brothers, Swell Season, Tim Barry and Gaslight Anthem

The Newport Folk Festival dates back to 1959, but has always adhered to a somewhat loose definition of “folk.” Among the people who played there in the early days of the festival and early in their careers were Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash and Howlin’ Wolf. More recently people as diverse as Jakob Dylan, The Decemberists, The Low Anthem, Jimmy Buffett, Nickel Creek, the Allman Brothers Band, Agenlique Kidjo, and Emmylou Harris have played the festival that now takes place annually at Fort Adams State Park.
This year’s festival was impressive, as usual. We got there just in time to see Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. As usual they were brilliant. Sharon Jones interacts with her audience more than any other performer I have seen live, and if you get a chance to see her in a small club, do. She’ll bring folks on stage to sing to them, or even to have them sing and dance with her. She singles people in the audience out for recognition when they show affection, and she handles unruliness with particular dexterity. I wasn’t sure how that would play out in the noonday sun on the highly elevated stage in Fort Adams State Park.
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Happy Birthday, Bruce!


Bruce turns 60 today! Springsteen has provided the soundtrack for an awful lot of my life and have found it almost uncanny the way his music somehow matched whatever I was going through during a given period in my life. I have seen him in concert multiple times throughout the years, most recently in Hyde Park this summer. He was amazing, just as he has been so many times during the past decades.
So happy birthday, Mr. Springsteen! And thanks!
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