What does the Newport Folk Festival mean in 2025? For some, it means speaking truth to power. At this year’s festival, there was certainly a dose of that (though perhaps less than one might think).

It's that time of year again when the only thing hotter than the weather outside is the music coming from Fort Adams. The 2025 Newport Folk Festival is ready to jam out July 25-27 and the Newport Jazz ...

60 years removed from Newport Folk Festival‘s Dylan Goes Electric moment that Timothée Chalamet depicted so well in last year’s hit film A Complete Unknown, the Rhode Island festival is still full of ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Newport Folk Fest is set to resume after strong storms moved through the area on Friday. Attendees got the go-ahead to return to Fort Adams around 5 p.m. They were ordered to ...

“Newport & the Great Folk Dream” is a rapturous documentary — elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical black-and-white images and performances that have a timeless power. The movie tells the ...

Robert Gordon's transporting film draws on 100 hours of footage that has never been seen before, presenting performances of timeless power. The movie presents a far richer, more wide-ranging and ...