With the relationship between music and municipality restored in the 1980s, the Newport Folk and Jazz festivals found staying ...

A visual history of the Newport Jazz and Folk festivals, from their inception in the 1950s by George Wein through riots, ...

Outside of the Montreux Jazz Festival, held annually in Switzerland, Newport is the pinnacle. Newport is singular in its vision and open to expanding what jazz is and can be. This year’s lineup ...

The Newport Jazz Festival returns for 2025 with a lineup headlined by Janelle Monáe, The Roots, and Jacob Collier. The long-running festival (71 years!) will come home to Fort Adams State Park in ...

Coming up: O Brother, Where Art Thou? w/ Live Music from Princess June on the Newport Patch calendar ...

What do Janelle Monáe, The Roots and Esperanza Spalding have in common? They'll all take the stage at Fort Adams this summer as part of the 71st Newport Jazz Festival this Aug. 1-3. That trio is ...

The 2025 edition of the Newport Jazz Festival happens August 1-3 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, and specially-priced 3-day passes are on sale now through July 17 at 12:59 PM ...

In 1956, Langston Hughes appeared at a symposium during the Newport Jazz Festival. He would return regularly, and in 1960, Hughes hosted and curated a blues conversation and concert that found him ...