Notes from The Wein Machine: Thank You!
A Fantasyland. The past two weeks at the Newport Folk Festival and Newport Jazz Festival was just that. Two exciting, entertaining, enlightening, engaging, exuberant, exhilarating, evolving, emotional and occasionally damp festivals. It was a memorable 60th Anniversary for Jazz and 55th year for Folk.
To me, the stars of both festivals were the dedicated, music-loving fans, who in spite of rain on the Sunday of Folk and Saturday of Jazz, never gave up the joyous feeling that both festivals inspired.
Over 53,000 people attended these iconic festivals this year. Some memorable moments for me were the historic concert by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which showed ultimate respect for the history of the music born of Newport over the past six decades.
To me, the stars of both festivals were the dedicated, music-loving fans, who in spite of rain on the Sunday of Folk and Saturday of Jazz, never gave up the joyous feeling that both festivals inspired.
Over 53,000 people attended these iconic festivals this year. Some memorable moments for me were the historic concert by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which showed ultimate respect for the history of the music born of Newport over the past six decades.
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