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The Olympics are blaring in the background; we admit, it’s tough breaking away from all the young athletes giving their all. All the hard training, focus, skill… there are a great many talents that require an exceptional heft of dedication, not just performing music.   So we figure we’d showcase this exceptionally young banjoist (all photos © Julia Markowitz). The Mizzone trio (fiddle, banjo, guitar) could just as easily have named themselves The Middle School Bluegrass Bunch – instead, they went for Sleepy Man Banjo Boys. Better ring perhaps. Jonny, at 10, is the youngest of the soon-to-be high schoolers, and we just can’t getRead More →

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It’s that dreaded music moment: the morning after. Okay, so technically, yesterday was the morning after, and it’s well into the afternoon right now, but that same dread carries over pretty fierce. Still, it was four stages of acts (one more than 2011), about five acts per stage over about six hours… that’s getting folked pretty hard, we’d say.We’re still recuperating from a bludgeoning of music, so our mind’s still foggy. We roughly recall one Julia Markowitz as photographer (height? weight? age? still too foggy to guess) so many thanks to her for strapping a camera around (yes, all photos copyright JM) and dragging usRead More →

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So. All the tickets surrounding the NFF are sold out. Conor Oberst’s solo concert in Newport went out in three hours – I didn’t even have time to drive down. Everything else that’s remotely related is gone, sold out, etc. etc. no more cookies left in the jar.Except this one: Wilco on Fri.Now we’re guessing, what, with a brilliant new Wilco album out (finally! only waited like 10 years) there’s still some standing room to catch these guys? So previous NFF years have been at the Tennis Hall of Fame (which was AWESOME, just so nice), and we’re guessing there’s a ton more seating forRead More →

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So! Fellow New Englanders, not only has Wilco been added to the NFF lineup on Friday night (check out www.newportfolkfest.net), but Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes, Mystic Valley Band, et al) has another, later Friday night show at the Jane Pickens Theater because, well, he’s at the Folk Fest and apparently has time to kill. It’s a charming little venue (emphasis on ‘little’), and we very very greatly suspect these tickets will sell out incredibly quickly; check it out right here. The tics go on sale this Friday, and we’re gonna scramble downtown to pick up a pair. Strongly suggested you folks who are checkingRead More →