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Deer Tick & Friends feel more like a Quad closer in the style of North Hills than a fort closer to me.
I don't know how much truth there is to it, but I've seen it mentioned a few times on the boards that someone close to the band said they wouldn't come back to Newport until they headlined...
Is this the 2nd release from album? Still not really feeling it.
I love this song. As someone from a big family I really like the lyrics and loved when they played it at Newport. I also didn't hate the first single like many did so I may just be biased towards liking these
Early Bird membership emails came out this afternoon.
Got clarity on the single to family upgrade for existing members. Donate and get thrown into the lottery for a family membership, if not selected existing members retain/get bumped back down to the original single membership.
Original Planxty Version Of Bonny Light Horseman. The new band took their name from the song.
Planxty were an early 1970s folk band from Ireland. The story was relevant as an Irish folk song because around 30% of the British Army and 40% of Wellington's personal army were Irish during the Napoleonic Wars. One of the Irish folk singers I posted months back was Christy Moore. When I was a kid in the 80s I knew him as a solo singer. Before I was born he has been in Planxty.
I love the new version and it's better sung by a woman. Anaïs does a great job. I'm sure they'll perform it with Christy if they tour in Ireland.
Note: The folk revival in the UK and Ireland at that time had be triggered by the work done there by Pete Seeger.
Original Planxty Version Of Bonny Light Horseman. The new band took their name from the song.
Planxty were an early 1970s folk band from Ireland. The story was relevant as an Irish folk song because around 30% of the British Army and 40% of Wellington's personal army were Irish during the Napoleonic Wars. One of the Irish folk singers I posted months back was Christy Moore. When I was a kid in the 80s I knew him as a solo singer. Before I was born he has been in Planxty.
I love the new version and it's better sung by a woman. Anaïs does a great job. I'm sure they'll perform it with Christy if they tour in Ireland.
Note: The folk revival in the UK and Ireland at that time had be triggered by the work done there by Pete Seeger.
I believe the tune itself goes back far longer than Planxty though, no? I'd imagine they popularized it
Original Planxty Version Of Bonny Light Horseman. The new band took their name from the song.
Planxty were an early 1970s folk band from Ireland. The story was relevant as an Irish folk song because around 30% of the British Army and 40% of Wellington's personal army were Irish during the Napoleonic Wars. One of the Irish folk singers I posted months back was Christy Moore. When I was a kid in the 80s I knew him as a solo singer. Before I was born he has been in Planxty.
I love the new version and it's better sung by a woman. Anaïs does a great job. I'm sure they'll perform it with Christy if they tour in Ireland.
Note: The folk revival in the UK and Ireland at that time had be triggered by the work done there by Pete Seeger.
I believe the tune itself goes back far longer than Planxty though, no? I'd imagine they popularized it
From what I read initally about the song just credited Planxty but I did a bit more digging and you're right. I found this.
The Bonny Light Horseman is a lament from the Napoleonic Wars.
A song from the days of Waterloo. Numerous broadside printers issued it. Some versions include verses relating to Napoleon Bonaparte—see, for example, the version in Terry Moylan’s The Age of Revolution in the Irish Song Tradition 1776-1815 (Dublin, 2000, p. 139).
Sam Henry noted the tune is probably over four hundred years old and is of Irish origin because it used the old Irish gapped scale (which did not use the fourth and seventh notes of the modern scale). Sam Henry, Songs of the People, No. 122.
Planxty recorded Bonny Light Horseman in 1979 for their album After the Break.
It would be amazing if Elton John wanted to check off the NFF box on his concert bucket list, since he's doing this huge goodbye tour.
I would love to get Frank Turner back. He hasn't played since 2013.
Wonder if there's a chance The Black Keys could headline. Dan Auerbach played with The Arcs a couple of years ago.
Definitely feeling like Justin Vernon will be there in some capacity... or at least I'm convincing myself of it.
I'd expect Noname to be back on the lineup, assuming scheduling works with whatever else she has going on.
The debut of Gang Of Youths and the return of Low Cut Connie, please!!!
People have mentioned both Haim and Vampire Weekend already, and I'd loveee to get either, or ideally both since Danielle Haim is on a bunch of the new VW songs.
Post by earthshoe12 on Aug 3, 2019 16:42:17 GMT -5
Hoping to make our triumphant return in 2020. I’ll keep beating the same drum til the following are at the fort: Alvvays, Hop Along. Got my Todd Snider wish the year I didn’t go, naturally. We’re Hold Steady devotees in our house, and they might fit the raucous quad band mold from the last few years, but I’d love to see Craig Finn solo at the harbor as well.
For legacy headliners, Bruce is my ultimate dream. Stevie Nicks or Tom Waits would be a close second. Neil and Paul Simon I’ve seen elsewhere, so they are one rung down. Would U2 do an acoustic set at this festival?
Boygenius or Better Oblivion Community Center fall at the top of the “not technically repeats” category for me. How has Conor Oberst not been at this fest since 2014?
Bands others have mentioned/repeats I’d like to see: Haim, Joe Pug, Gaslight Anthem, Fleet Foxes, Iron and Wine, Rhiannon Giddens, Benjamin Booker, Guster and Dispatch for High School reminiscing and Passenger since apparently he was amazing and we didn’t see any of it.
Oh and I guess I should start asking now: anyone got tips on doing this fest with a one year old?
Deer Tick & Friends feel more like a Quad closer in the style of North Hills than a fort closer to me.
I don't know how much truth there is to it, but I've seen it mentioned a few times on the boards that someone close to the band said they wouldn't come back to Newport until they headlined...
Deer Tick and Friends could work if there's a strong headliner another night too.
Certainly DT has done enough for NFF and the RI scene to warrant a headline spot.
I don't know how much truth there is to it, but I've seen it mentioned a few times on the boards that someone close to the band said they wouldn't come back to Newport until they headlined...
Deer Tick and Friends could work if there's a strong headliner another night too.
Certainly DT has done enough for NFF and the RI scene to warrant a headline spot.
Couldn’t we have made the same argument about Dawes though too? (Not necessarily RI, but their love for the fest. And they’ve played a few aftershows before too.)
But I do agree that Deer Tick could go either way. Maybe Jay will give Deer Tick the Brandi treatment and permit them to curate a headlining set (Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks, Brandi, Sharon Van Etten, Middle Brother, etc. We’ve seen the epic after show guest lists. Imagine that on a larger scale.)
Brennan Wedl is a soon-to-be Nashville based singer-songwriter who'd be perfect for Newport. (I saw her perform in the middle of a street in Somerville, MA yesterday. Very impressive.)
I know we’ve mentioned his record club before in these threads. He has a new album out (or coming out).
And seems well connected to those in the community (check out the familiar faces in this new music video)
I have been pushing for Drew since 2015. He curates the Moon River Festival, where 80% of the artists are NFF alums. Crazy that he hasn't appeared yet. My wife and I had a meet and greet with him in 2018 and he said he hasn't been invited.
I know we’ve mentioned his record club before in these threads. He has a new album out (or coming out).
And seems well connected to those in the community (check out the familiar faces in this new music video)
I have been pushing for Drew since 2015. He curates the Moon River Festival, where 80% of the artists are NFF alums. Crazy that he hasn't appeared yet. My wife and I had a meet and greet with him in 2018 and he said he hasn't been invited.
It’s super interesting to hear that as of last year he hadn’t been invited.
Newport always asks us to petition our favorite artists, because they have to “get it” to be willing to pay at the price that Newport can pay... but when there are artists out there who clearly “get it”... how are they not being invited? It’s not like he’d take up a huge spot on the lineup.
Post by jumpinjamesbrown on Aug 6, 2019 17:46:55 GMT -5
If we’re going to get collaborative sets to finish the weekend I want to see some version of Bonnie Raitt, John Prine, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris with Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires and Phil Cook this is nonnegotiable.
I'm really digging Tyler Childer's new album. He put on a great quad set two years ago, I would love to see him back at the fort in the future.
He'd basically pre-headline or headline right?
I feel like they could get away with having him 3rd to last on the Fort or as a Quad closer, depending on who else was playing that day. Could definitely pre-headline but I don't think he'd headline.
I feel like they could get away with having him 3rd to last on the Fort or as a Quad closer, depending on who else was playing that day. Could definitely pre-headline but I don't think he'd headline.
He's just getting so popular. Selling out the Anthem almost 4 months in advance (if you believe the low ticket warning) is pretty impressive.
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