“The Old Churchyard,” performed here by the Portland band The Decemberists and English singer Olivia Chaney at this year’s Newport Folk Fest, is part of a rich, oral tradition passed along ...

It's not Beyonce, but Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staples closed out a week of ... Staples also made an appearance at this year's ...

The final guest during Conan O'Brien's star-studded Sunday evening set at Newport Folk Festival was his ... Man"); and a rousing performance from Mavis Staples, who sang an extended rendition ...

Pete Seeger remarking on a folk music festival he once attended in Ireland, pointed out that "there are no large groups like this one [the Sunday night concert at Newport], but wherever there is a ...

In August 2009, reporter Rick Massimo, MFA’98, was covering the Newport Folk Festival for The Providence Journal. Happily prowling around backstage, he took in the behind-the-scenes bustle, folk star ...

In these surreal days following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene, Tampa Bay area residents are hungry for ...

Gospel royalty Mavis Staples, 85, brought her musical-spiritual message to the Arlington, with The War and Treaty in tow.

Greg DeGuire/Getty Images Leno and his wife, Mavis, happened across the property during a drive down Newport’s iconic Ocean Avenue many years ago. Michael Ocean for Sotheby’s/Gustave White ...

Instillations spread from Over-the-Rhine to across the river in Covington and, for the first time, in Newport.As a first-time member in the festival, Newport is going all-in."Very happy about it ...

All the makings for one of Richmond’s best festivals. In 2005, the National Folk Festival visited Richmond for the first time. The music — from Ralph Stanley to Mexican mariachi — was electric.

But this was a special occasion in that the historic Monterey festival, in its first edition directed by ... Don’t try to hinder me, because I have work to do.” See Mavis Staples and The War and The ...

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