Have you even *started* to think about gigs this autumn? Evidently Ed Sheeran has. 'The A Team' man has already announced a significant tour for October and November. Tickets are on sale now. Saturday 13th October 2012 - London HMV Hammersmith Apollo Tuesday 16th October 2012 – London HMV Hammersmith Apollo Saturday 20th October 2012 - Newport Newport Centre Sunday 21st October 2012 - Bournemouth Windsor Hall at BIC Monday 22nd October 2012 [...]
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The '80s chanteuse has lost none of her charisma and vocal prowess on her first live album in 16 years.

Newport Folk 2011 Photos by Emma Dessau Freelance Whales - Kilojoules - NEWPORT FOLK SET LIST - Generator 1st Floor Kilojoules Enzymer Starring Ghosting We Could be Friends The Great Estates Broken House Hannah Location Generator 2nd Floor DOWNLOAD this set [...]

Newport Folk 2011 Photos by Emma Dessau Carolina Chocolate Drops - Hit 'Em Up Style - NEWPORT FOLK SET LIST - Georgia Buck Short Life of Trouble Didlbux Baby Ain't Sweet Dom No [...]

from Newport Folk 52 Photos by Chris March Tegan and Sara - The Con ( Album Version - humble Editor. ) - SET LIST - Call It Off BIYH Where Does [...]
Basia - It's been a couple of decades or so since singer Basia Trzetrzelewska joined up with trendsetting Brit band Matt Bianco but the Latin-flavoured jazz/pop that also influenced contemporaries like Sade and Everything But the Girl stuck with the platinum-selling Polish-born vocalist...Basia and keyboardist Danny White continued to explore the cocktail-cool rhythmic pop for a series of best-selling Basia "solo" albums in the 90's...New concert album, recorded this past June in the Polish city of Łódź, offers up 15 live versions plus two new studio tracks // Release : From Newport to London/Greatest Hits [...]

photos by Jim Brueckner Emmylou Harris Day two (7/31) of Newport Folk Festival featured performances by The Cave Singers , Wanda Jackson , Justin Townes Earle , Middle Brother , Elvis Costello , M. Ward , Emmylou Harris and others. If you missed the fest, you can listen to archives of the sets at NPR . Like they've done in the past , [...]

Newport Folk 2011 Photos by Emma Dessau Brown Bird - Fingers to the Bone [ mp3 Download ] NEW ENGLAND POWERHOUSE - The powerful indie Americana duo, Rhode-Island-based Brown Bird , alternated between foot stomping back porch fiddling and haunting Eastern European gypsy caravan. David Lamb's guitar & [...]

from Newport Folk 52 Photos by Chris March The Decemberists - All Arise! My favorite thing about seeing Colin Meloy and Decemberists on the stage at Newport Folk is understand right away that they ' get it .' The Decemberists know [...]

Newport Folk 2011 Photos by Jeremiah Robinson Chris Thile - Song For A Young Queen A FAVORITE SET AT NEWPORT - Bluegrass was on the menu during mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile and guitarist Michael Davis ' outstanding set [...]

Newport Folk 2011 Photos by Jeremiah Robinson Mountain Man - Animal Tracks Mountain Man are a three piece group from Vermont, making their first Newport Folk appearance this year. Their highly complementary voices combine in a fresh, exquisitely beautiful way, both eerie and ethereal. Their harmonies crested and receded with quick [...]

Newport Folk 2011 Photos by Mark Jenko A Scorcher of a Set from Delta Spirit ! Delta Spirit - Children San Diego's Delta Spirit proved, yet again, that they are probably America's best rock band at Newport. Their [...]

Newport Folk #52 Photos by Jeremiah Robinson Elvis Costello - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood Eric Burdon & The Animals cover Costello reigns supreme on the Fort Stage - An acoustic visit to Newport was on [...]

Newport Folk #52 Photos by Mark Jenko Typhoon - "Summer Home" A WINNING EXPERIENCE AT NEWPORT - I suppose there are all kinds of ways to say a band of as many as 13 musicians jamming sounds like [...]

Newport Folk 2011 Photos by Chris March Justin Townes Earle - Wanderin' Just 10 minutes before Justin Townes Earle was to take the Quad Stage, I stood less than a dozen feet away from the singer, our backs turned to one-another in the [...]

The Middle Brother Gang: Taylor, John, Matt I'm just back from an epic family vacation that took us from the Valley of the Sun to Boston, then to New York City, and then on to Newport, Rhode Island for my (and my family's) first Newport Folk Festival . First off, it was great to have the opportunity to meet some of the people I've gotten to know through this web site, and through the internet music community I've been immersed in for the last several years. In Boston, I met Mike Heyliger [...]

photos by Jim Brueckner Sallie Ford @ Newport Folk Fest Partisan Records was repping hard in Newport over the weekend. Between the fest itself and a bunch of afterparties, there were all kinds of Deer Tick-related collaborations going on including Partisan's Mountain Man playing the fest and later joining Middle Brother on stage, and Partisan's Sallie Ford & the Outside Sound playing the fest (pics in this post) in addition to Sallie singing John Prine's "In Spite of Ourselves" [...]

photos by Jim Brueckner , words by Rachel Kowal The ladies that are Mountain Man played Mercury Lounge last week (7/28) with BOBBY . Due largely to the un-Google-ability of their name (and recent self-titled album), BOBBY has enjoyed a certain amount of mystique, but chances are they won't be able to hide in the shadows much longer--especially not with Mountain Man members Amelia Randall Meathe and Molly Erin Sarle contributing vocals. [...]

Newport Folk 2011 Photos by 5342 Studios Fort Stage action: Colin Meloy of Decemberists The Decemberists - Summersong NEWPORT FOLK / JULY 30th, 2011 - In the early hours before the sun rises, I toss & turn like a [...]