Newport Folk Festival Returns in 2021 with “Folk On”

By: Michael Kravetsky

The Newport folk festival is back in 2021 with a new “FOLK ON” ½ capacity 2 Three Day Festival Dates, July 23rd through July 25th and July 26th through July 28th.

Due to COVID-19 capacity restrictions, Newport Folk will be doing things a little differently this year. The Festival will be extending its dates to present two unique 3-day events of surprise performances, storytelling, and workshops at Fort Adams.

Newport Folk Info

The “FOLK ON” festival is also not announcing the lineup and allowing the artists who are performing to decide if they are going to reveal if they will be performing and when.

“This year, out of respect for our artists, we’re letting them decide whether or not to announce if they’re playing FOLK ON or to keep it a surprise. This is why you haven’t seen our regular lineup announcements, and instead have been seeing artists self-announcing. We created this page to aggregate all the artist announcements. Of course, this isn’t the full lineup, and we’ll be adding to this list should artists choose to self-announce.” – Newport Folk Festival Web Site Excerpt

This is a fun mysterious way to do the reveal since the weekend dates SOLD OUT Instantly and now The 2^nd Session is SOLD OUT as well. It’s really beautiful that the fans trust the Newport Folk Festival team to bring remarkable musicians and artists out each year and sell it out before a lineup has been announced! If you don’t have tickets, DON’T WORRY JUST YET, you can still go on the Official Newport Folk Festival Fan-to-Fan ticket exchange and Request Tickets to possibly buy tickets to FOLK ON!

Official Fan-to-Fan Exchange: https://newportfolk.lyte.com/363034

In the last few weeks, some artists have released/self-announced the dates they will be performing.

Here are some of the artists who have announced they will be performing:

Randy Newman

Langhorne Slim

Kevin Morby

The Marcus King Band

Margo Price

Lucy Dacus

Middle Brother Reunion

Deer Tick

Andrew Bird