Blog: Frontier Psychiatrist

Click to view slideshow. From the moment you pull in to Fort Adams State Park, with its views of the Newport Harbor and the Narraganssett Bay, it's clear that this is a special setting for a weekend of "folk" music. While every performer at the Newport Folk Festival has some sort of traditional foundation, this year's festival stretched the folk label to include such acts as My Morning Jacket and Alabama Shakes . To the conservatives this may seem like a step in the wrong direction, but the audience definitely skewed younger and more enthusiastic [...]