_Newport Folk Fest 2012 – Sunday

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 →