Ahhhh, summer festivals. I love when those come up in the news queue! Not because writing about them makes me feel all fun-in-the-sunny inside or because I have any great personal affinity for the blissfully unhygienic culture of weekend-long, bum-around-and-jam-outs. Nope, I love them because they always tell you everything you need to know about themselves on one bold, colorful, well-maintained, and easy-to-click-over-to website! Thus making my job as your humble newswriter as easy and fun as the cakewalk I’m gonna take over to Check Into Cash when I clock out today.
Take, for example, this year’s Newport Folk Festival, which just announced its 2011 lineup this past weekend. Sure, I could stress out my cuticles, eponychiums, lunulas, lateral nail folds, nail plates, periosteums, and hyponychiums (not to mention flexor AND extensor tendons) typing out a bunch of “humor-laced” bullshit about how the fest is going down July 30-31 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Or about how tickets are on sale now for $125 for a two-day pass and $69 for a single-day pass. Or about how The Decemberists, Gogol Bordello, Tegan and Sara, Mavis Staples, Emilou Harris, Elvis Costello, M. Ward, and Wanda Jackson feature near the top of the large list of acts.
OR! I could just tell you to go here: http://www.newportfolkfest.net.
Ah, simplicity. It’s what folk music’s all about anyway, isn’t it?
• Newport Folk Festival: http://www.newportfolkfest.net
• Newport Folk Festival: http://www.newportfolkfest.net
• Newport Folk Festival: http://www.newportfolkfest.net
