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Wilco announce tour dates including XPoNential Music Festival in Camden & Newport Folk Fes…

Wilco in Chicago (more by Matt Ziegler)

Wilco dates have been popping up here and there, but are now part of a fully announced tour that happens in May, June, July and August...

BrooklynVegan Staff

Newport Folk Fest 50 – Day 2 pics & video (Deer Tick, Neko Case, Joan Baez, Del McCoury, E…

"...And to think it almost didn't happen. When the festival's future was in question earlier this year, original executive producer George Wein took back the reins and scrambled to fill two days with an impressive lineup that appealed, in producer Jay Sweet's words, to "the…

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Newport Folk Fest 50 – Day 1 pics, video, audio (Pete Seeger, Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, S…

"Half a century ago, Pete Seeger helped found the Newport Folk Festival, a weekend notorious for its dichotomies- Rhode Island high society and scrappy folk singers, old time traditions and new sounds, social rebellion and responsible activism...

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Newport Folk Festival – 2009 lineup & tickets info (Pete Seeger, Neko Case, Iron & Wine, T…

The 50th annual Newport Folk Festival will take place at Rhode Island's Fort Adams Park on Saturday, August 1st and Sunday, August 2nd. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, May 6th at 10am

Pete Seeger, who is a cofounder of the Festival and who just celebrated his 90th birthday with a show at MSG, will…

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