Blog: Hidden Track

We're roughly a month away from the 2012 edition of the Newport Folk Festival , and while we still await the daily schedule, we can report that the grandaddy of all music fests has made some final additions to its lineup. Joining the meaty bill, which already features headliners My Morning Jacket and Jackson Browne, will be bluegrass legend Del McCoury and singer-songwriter Tao Rodriguez Seeger (who happens to the grandson of the legendary folkie Pete Seeger). Both McCoury and Seeger will appear as special guests of Preservation Hall Jazz Band for their scheduled set on Saturday [...]