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A Look at the Newport Folk Festival

Newport-Folk-Festival-LogoThe Festival...

Full of sweet rebellion and always on the cutting edge, the Newport Folk Festival has earned its reputation as a cultural icon while standing firmly on its liberal threshold. Founded in 1959, by jazz pianist and musical entrepreneur, George Wein, the Newport Folk Festival was born in a time of war and civil unrest. The festival introduced the world to the likes of  Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Odetta, Pete Seeger, and Mavis Staples and gave voice to a musical movement that would  greatly influence and empower a generation and the generations that followed.

 

The Man... 

George Wein is a man of great vision with a keen sense for talent and business know-how. He is, hands down, a pioneer in the music industry. In addition to founding both the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, George Wein was one of the first in the country to start organizing  and obtaining sponsorships for large scale music festivals and events which, ultimately, has had tremendous impact on the way we experience and are introduced to new music today. After the Newport Folk Festival fell into financial dismay and was forced to close its doors in 1971, Wein was on the forefront of one of the biggest festival comebacks ever. By changing the festivals business model from that of a non-profit organization to a for profit organization, The Newport Folk Festival was resurrected in 1985 and remains one of the longest running American music festivals to date. 

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An Interview with Eilen Jewell

Eilen Jewell

Like a fine whiskey, Eilen Jewell is top shelf. Smooth, mellow, and refined, Eilen's voice naturally blends, rises, and falls with the rhythm and beat of the band adding sultry melodies and classic country mixes capable of transporting you to another place and time. With punchy lyrics that tell stories about cheaters, lovers, and vagabonds, somehow Eilen Jewell can make even the burn of a bad day feel good. Eilen and her band have been well received in the States, Europe, and the UK. Eilen has made a name for herself as a modern day American roots performer. With a style and sound that is all her own, Eilen adds new life and meaning to a variety of genres including folk, vintage rock, traditional country western, blues, and jazz. Like a good bottle of Glenlivet ...Eilen and her work as both writer and musician is something to be valued, savored and appreciated now and in years to come...as this kind of woman only gets better with age!

 

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A Prayer and No Wings

  
They live with little hope and power, cast aside by smiles, shrugs; 
Swimming against a tide of paper, fates decided distantly,  
By slammed doors, bottom lines, lives misfiled. 
Barely existing in a sunless land, spirits spent. 
Daily I meet them, their arms raised,  
Eyes pleading, souls filled with pain. 
Drowning unheard in a sea of jargon,  
No markers or compass to guide them. 
Looking for answers, relief, comfort, 
A way to staunch the bleeding, bind the cuts.  
A husband cares for his wife, crushed by the depth of her suffering 
A single mother helplessly watches her dying daughter. 
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An Interview with Brandi Carlile

brandi-carlile-bonnarooThe girl can't help it. With a spirited smile that could charm the devil, Brandi Carlile possesses a natural beauty and wholesome goodness that radiates from the inside out. Like her music, she is honest, heartfelt and uncompromising in her values and beliefs. Her passion is her music and music is her life. And at 29, Brandi Carlile is doing exactly what she set out to do as a small child growing up in rural Ravensdale, Washington. She is living her dream. 

Born June 1, 1981, the oldest of three children, Brandi Carlile grew up listening to the likes of Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash.  Her early years were strongly influenced by her mother, Teresa Carlile, a local country and western singer. At 8 years old,  Brandi performed  Roseanne Cash's "Tennessee Flat-Top Box" at the Northwest Grand Ol' Opry and was immediately hooked by the lure and applause of the audience. Under her mother's watchful eye, Brandi continued giving live performances and cultivating her musical talent. At 16, Brandi got a job with her best friend as a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator, who also happened to be  her best friend's father. By 17 she had taught herself to play the guitar and piano, had long been writing songs, and had just discovered rock and roll. Brandi was completely "wowed" by legendary music greats Elton John, Freddie Mercury of Queen, Roy Orbison, and Radiohead's Thom Yorke, all whose influence would come to play an intricate part in refining Brandi as an artist.

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