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I'm right there with you! I have to make a decision in the next couple of weeks. There have been past lineups where I'm not familiar with a lot of the artists but this year so far there have been none that I'm absolutely thrilled with. It's a big expense to travel to Newport and I'm really on the fence so far. So I may have two weekend passes plus a parking pass available.
We drive up from Philly and spend a week. It’s about more than just the lineup for us, it’s the whole experience, but I’m just not feeling it so far!
I'm hoping to still go, but in a weird universe in which I have two Friday tix that I cannot use; need one or two for Saturday; and I am set for Sunday,although may end up selling two of them. I wish there was a way to break these passes up. T Lyte Saturday tix have only moved 28 spaces since November.
I trust Jay 100%, but this is the first time in 6 years of going that I’m actually considering selling back my tickets. Deciding on doing so in a few weeks. Maybe I’m just out of touch with the “folk scene” of today, but most of these artists are not doing anything for me. (Lukas, JS Ondara are the highlights so far). Hoping for some bigger names soon!
I'm right there with you! I have to make a decision in the next couple of weeks. There have been past lineups where I'm not familiar with a lot of the artists but this year so far there have been none that I'm absolutely thrilled with. It's a big expense to travel to Newport and I'm really on the fence so far. So I may have two weekend passes plus a parking pass available.
It’s a great lineup but I have to imagine a festival in a race track has to be terrible. It just seems so compact and tight and a weird setting
Checking out the Lollapalooza lineup for other potential crossovers, outside of Hozier and Sharon Van Etten, I think Emily King would be great. She's a little more soul/R&B, but she'd be a nice slightly outside the box booking.
Checking out the Lollapalooza lineup for other potential crossovers, outside of Hozier and Sharon Van Etten, I think Emily King would be great. She's a little more soul/R&B, but she'd be a nice slightly outside the box booking.
I was looking as well. Childish would be a wild surprise. If they wanted to wander into the hip hop headliner realm..I know Jay saw him on tour last year, and he had some great seats for it...
Checking out the Lollapalooza lineup for other potential crossovers, outside of Hozier and Sharon Van Etten, I think Emily King would be great. She's a little more soul/R&B, but she'd be a nice slightly outside the box booking.
Checking out the Lollapalooza lineup for other potential crossovers, outside of Hozier and Sharon Van Etten, I think Emily King would be great. She's a little more soul/R&B, but she'd be a nice slightly outside the box booking.
Do you know something we don’t know regarding SVE
No I was just mentioning potential crossovers, not people that have already been announced, which so far includes: Kacey, Maggie, the Nude Party and Ruston Kelly.
Checking out the Lollapalooza lineup for other potential crossovers, outside of Hozier and Sharon Van Etten, I think Emily King would be great. She's a little more soul/R&B, but she'd be a nice slightly outside the box booking.
I was looking as well. Childish would be a wild surprise. If they wanted to wander into the hip hop headliner realm..I know Jay saw him on tour last year, and he had some great seats for it...
I don’t remotely expect it though.
While I would really enjoy seeing CG at some point, I really hope a hip-hop act doesn’t headline Newport anytime soon. I’d be pretty bummed if the headliner at a Folk Festival wasn’t, well, folk. And I don’t think hip-hop is at odds with folk on a semantic level of “what is folk?” and I don’t think hip-hop doesn’t belong at a folk fest, but with buying the tickets blindly, I’d be bummed if they pulled a surprise booking like that, without working up to it with more smaller stage acts along the way.
I was looking as well. Childish would be a wild surprise. If they wanted to wander into the hip hop headliner realm..I know Jay saw him on tour last year, and he had some great seats for it...
I don’t remotely expect it though.
While I would really enjoy seeing CG at some point, I really hope a hip-hop act doesn’t headline Newport anytime soon. I’d be pretty bummed if the headliner at a Folk Festival wasn’t, well, folk. And I don’t think hip-hop is at odds with folk on a semantic level of “what is folk?” and I don’t think hip-hop doesn’t belong at a folk fest, but with buying the tickets blindly, I’d be bummed if they pulled a surprise booking like that, without working up to it with more smaller stage acts along the way.
Hip-Hop is closer to folk music of the 50s than today's folk music is.
I would be ecstatic if Jay pushed the boundary and booked an act like Childish Gambino instead of a bunch of white dudes from NYC singing about farming.
While I would really enjoy seeing CG at some point, I really hope a hip-hop act doesn’t headline Newport anytime soon. I’d be pretty bummed if the headliner at a Folk Festival wasn’t, well, folk. And I don’t think hip-hop is at odds with folk on a semantic level of “what is folk?” and I don’t think hip-hop doesn’t belong at a folk fest, but with buying the tickets blindly, I’d be bummed if they pulled a surprise booking like that, without working up to it with more smaller stage acts along the way.
Hip-Hop is closer to folk music of the 50s than today's folk music is.
I would be ecstatic if Jay pushed the boundary and booked an act like Childish Gambino instead of a bunch of white dudes from NYC singing about farming.
Thematically, yeah, like I said, there are plenty of similarities you can draw between the two genres, but it’s wrong to think that everybody that buys tickets to a folk festival enjoy hip-hop. Not everybody is a music fanatic with eclectic tastes. Also, many people don’t have the luxury of buying tickets to however many concerts and/or festivals that they want. Last thing I’ll say, is regardin the “bunch of white dudes” comment, out of the 28 bands currently listed, less than half are headlined by white males—and I’d say it’s misguided to think that hip-hop is the only way to bring diversity to a folk festival (which clearly Jay is doing a great job of so far). If every band was a Punch Bros/Mumford and Sons clone, I’d have stopped buying tix to the festival long ago so I 100% agree with the need for diversity of music, but I think, at this point, a non-folk headliner would be pretty weak for a lot of people.
Not to bum anyone out but Lucy Dacus said in an interview with Rolling Stone that Woodstock is the only Boygenius gig on the books currently
Boygenius said this on twitter too. Unfortunate.
Well that bums me out.
Did Newport not reach out?
My only hope is that Newport grabbed Better Oblivion and Phoebe could not pull double duty in such a short time span.
I was originally okay with the fact that Newport may not have nabbed either, because of touring issues, but now that both Better Oblivion and boygenius have shows in August... and so far there’s no conflicting tours from any of the members... I’ll feel like it was a huge oversight.
If you could pick 2 reasonable non headliner acts that would do a lot for you, who would you pick. For me, if I got Andrew Bird and Dave Rawlings, I’d be ecstatic. I think Andrew is likely, Dave I’m not sure.
AA Bondy and Robert Ellis. id be OK with just those 2 (along with Ray Ray)
If you could pick 2 reasonable non headliner acts that would do a lot for you, who would you pick. For me, if I got Andrew Bird and Dave Rawlings, I’d be ecstatic. I think Andrew is likely, Dave I’m not sure.
AA Bondy and Robert Ellis. id be OK with just those 2 (along with Ray Ray)
I'm pulling for Robert Ellis too, the new album is one of my favorites this year
Definitely hoping for Ellis. A couple years ago I went to see the Decemberists new act (Offa Rex) instead which I’ve enjoyed more than most of their newer stuff, but I still think I chose poorly.
In partnership with The Mockingbird Foundation, Newport Festivals Foundation has made a donation on Trey's behalf to support the music program at Mt. Pleasant High School in Providence, RI. Mt. Pleasant is an ethnically diverse learning community where most students are the first of their families to receive formal music education, and NFF’s donation and Mockingbird’s match will be used to purchase musical instruments for their students to play.
