The Black roots supergroup New Dangerfield has only existed as a band for about a year and played a handful of gigs, but that was hardly evident from the band’s Sunday-morning mainstage performance, which blended fiddle-tune traditionals (“Half Irish”) with original songs (“Put No Walls Around Your Garden”).
of the Newport Folk Festival has made blending the past and the future its brand, but never was that dynamic more present than at this year’s 65th annual festival. There were, as always, plenty of reminders of the festival’s Sixties heyday: Joan Baez serving as this year’s Newport Patron Saint, mainstage sing-alongs to “This Land Is Your Land” and “We Shall Overcome,” Taj Mahal carrying the folk-blues torch. Even Bob Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm” was covered multiple times on a single day.
But this year’s Newport was also a space where the most crowded side-stage set of the weekend belonged to Bertha, a Grateful Dead drag band, where a new generation of artists like Rett Madison and Palmyra made their debuts, where two artists making wildly different music each offered moments of mourning for both
Most exciting, as always, was when past and future impulses collided: Gillian Welch and Sierra Ferrell duetting on a folk standard, Killer Mike and De La Soul further solidifying hip-hop’s presence at this folk festival, War on Drugs and Craig Finn covering John Hiatt, or Mavis Staples collaborating with current Top 40 hitmaker Hozier and being driven around in a golf cart all weekend thatsupergroup New Dangerfield has only existed as a band for about a year and played a handful of gigs, but...
began with a litany of sound issues: She sang a few songs with no functioning microphone, then bought time by leading the crowd through an a cappella version of Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz.” Once everything was resolved, Giddens thrilled with a set of string band tunes, Cajun jams, and highlights from her solo catalog, including “We Could Fly” and “Another Wasted Life.
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