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If it follows last year's schedule announcement, we'd get a heads up next Friday then they'd be up Monday the 15th. I feel like in the past it was a little earlier so don't know if that's set in stone.
Agreed. A lotta people don’t want to read/hear this, but it’s true. Easy to plant your face in the sand and say I don’t care about that side of the business.
But let’s be honest…they want the tax benefits….so they’ll stay “non profit”
Also - when you look back at the earlier years of this festival, Wein took pennies to nothing for salary.
Nobody cares about how things are run, until one day they’re wondering “what happened to this festival”.
I think these are all good points. It *is* hard to hear coming out of the “In Jay we trust” era, but I think discussion of his salary is fair play, especially considering they market the expensive, guaranteed ticket options as “memberships.” I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect some say in the process, however small, if you’re a “member.” If memory serves Jay was also a music supervisor who came up in Hollywood with the Farrelly brothers, so I’m gonna guess he wasn’t exactly in the poor house when he took over.
All that said, and I’m not asking this to start a fight, I’m genuinely curious, what do we think about the actual charitable activities of the fest? I know they make donations to a wide variety of causes every year “on behalf of the artists,” but do we know how that works? Does the fest take the money from the alleged “pay cuts” the artists take and donate the equivalent amount? Or does that come out of the “profits” from the fest? What about the instrument donations I see for most of the off-season on Instagram? Doing genuine good? Just good marketing?
I think it’s worth interrogating the non-profit nature of the fest, beyond Jay’s salary. I’ve got a family member who works in the museum space, and there is no question that some non-profits take advantage of people who want to do good in order to enrich people at the top under the guise of charity.
Again, I am asking these questions in good faith and not just trying to start shit. My engagement with the charitable side of this is whatever they post on Instagram, so I genuinely don’t know what counts as “enough.” Just curious what others think about that.
I’m also not going this year despite really wanting to lol.
For the artist donations, I feel like that's between the Fest and the artist. If they're good with the arrangement, I'm not concerned with the accounting. I'm sure allowing bands to book other local shows around the Fest helps.
If anyone is genuinely interested in details on the charitable efforts you can go deep here: newportfestivals.org/our-work.
I spend my money with them because I feel like I get good value for it. Their charitable work is a nice bonus. This was our second year of Gull and Stars and we will definitely be doing a third.
If someone else is earnestly engaged with them more as a music education nonprofit than a music festival, scrutinize away. I just don't believe those people are posting on a forum like this.
also i caught Guster at Capitol Groove tonight and holy shit what a terribly unserious band. just the corniest thing i've ever seen, the lead singer should be taken out behind a shed like Old Yeller.
If somehow one of the replacements ended up being the Lemon Twigs that would have an incredibly massive lift for me for Sunday. One can hope (given their tour), but probably unlikely. I’m starting to see their new album pop up on best of the year lists.
Daniel Donato would also be amazing, has a favorable tour, and seems to be well connected to the Folk family.
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If somehow one of the replacements ended up being the Lemon Twigs that would have an incredibly massive lift for me for Sunday. One can hope (given their tour), but probably unlikely. I’m starting to see their new album pop up on best of the year lists.
Daniel Donato would also be amazing, has a favorable tour, and seems to be well connected to the Folk family.
Saw Daniel Danato last night in Vermont. Really fun. He is also headlining Friday of Rhythm and Roots. Stoked for that.
also i caught Guster at Capitol Groove tonight and holy shit what a terribly unserious band. just the corniest thing i've ever seen, the lead singer should be taken out behind a shed like Old Yeller.
Post by livefromthere on Jul 8, 2024 13:17:26 GMT -5
What’s funny is Taj Mahal was the first announcement of 2022 (Gillian Anderson/Dave Rawlings was the first this year, as everyone probably remembers). Replacing a fairly unknown artist for a multi-Grammy winning one is 🤯.
What’s funny is Taj Mahal was the first announcement of 2022 (Gillian Anderson/Dave Rawlings was the first this year, as everyone probably remembers). Replacing a fairly unknown artist for a multi-Grammy winning one is 🤯.
Thrilled about Taj. Friday lineup still sucks (by NFF standards), but Saturday/Sunday actually sort of slaps?
Woah, Friday is one of the best days of the weekend and maybe one of the better days of the last several years.
You have an actual amphitheater-playing headliner, a Pitchfork headliner as a sub, one of 2023’s album of the year contenders Wednesday, what I can imagine is one of 2024’s album of the year contenders Adrianne Lenker, one of the most exciting bands in bluegrass in Molly Tuttle, one of the top names on All Things Go Festival’s lineup Muna, indie social media darling Petey, Newport regular Shovels and Rope, and previous Newport headliner Allison Russell… just for starters. Plus it’s always exciting when we know there’s space in the schedule for a Newport surprise.
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Side note: I’m so mad that someone can use the description of “A Pitchfiork headliner as a sub” and it be in reference to Black Pumas, that’s still such a random fucking booking from pitchfork
also i caught Guster at Capitol Groove tonight and holy shit what a terribly unserious band. just the corniest thing i've ever seen, the lead singer should be taken out behind a shed like Old Yeller.
i have never heard their music before but i just have zero respect for them bc they played somerville porchfest this year and completely mobbed the streets around them, preventing a ton of local acts from being seen
You know they were playing the porch of their old band house from when they attended Tufts. It wasn’t random.
"You look like you're listening to every note." - Lady to me during LCD's "final" show 2023: Mar 29 - Guster Apr 6 - Postmodern Jukebox Apr 26 - Father John Misty May 14 - Taylor Swift (Philly) May 17 - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss July 12 - moe. July 16 - CAKE (Portland, ME) July 28-30 - Newport Folk (#12!) Dec 8-9 - Goosemas!
Side note: I’m so mad that someone can use the description of “A Pitchfiork headliner as a sub” and it be in reference to Black Pumas, that’s still such a random fucking booking from pitchfork
My ranking is yours in reverse. Sunday just isn't that exciting to me.
I’m surprised $70 to listen to two guys spin their favorite vinyl records in a restaurant sold well but $60 MJ Lenderman + special guest + popular podcast aftershow in an actual theater has not sold out. Name recognition of those who have previously played Newport goes a long way. (I also understand there’s probably a significant capacity difference.)
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I’m surprised $70 to listen to two guys spin their favorite vinyl records in a restaurant sold well but $50 MJ Lenderman + special guest + popular podcast aftershow in an actual theater has not sold out.
