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Duo with acoustic guitars singing at the Newport Folk Festival

Snapshots from the 65th Newport Folk Festival

From Hozier to Joan Baez, Black Pumas to De La Sol, Conan O’Brien and the Dropkick Murphys, plus many more, there was something for everyone at the 2024 installment of Newport Folk Fest

Photos by Emilee Angell | Newport Life Staff

Guitarist playing on stage at the Newport Folk Festival
Hozier
Duo with acoustic guitars singing at the Newport Folk Festival
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Singer with an acoustic guitar in front of a Newport Folk banner
Steve Poltz
Accordion and banjo players performing at the Newport Folk Festival
Dropkick Murphys
Crowd cheering at the front of the stage at the Newport Folk Festival
Black Pumas
Two singers with microphones performing at the Newport Folk Festival
De La Soul
Performers with guitars and a fan on stage at the Newport Folk Festival
Bertha
Crowd cheering under a tent at the Newport Folk Festival
Dropkick Murphys
Performers in costumes with guitars on stage at the Newport Folk Festival
Bertha
Singer in a blue cowboy hat and jacket playing guitar at the Newport Folk Festival
Orville Peck
Fiddler in a yellow gown with flowers at the Newport Folk Festival
Sierra Elizabeth Ferrell
Guitarist and keyboard singer performing at the Newport Folk Festival
Ocie Elliot
Performer waving to the crowd on stage at the Newport Folk Festival
Conan O’Brien
Band in colorful costumes performing on a tent stage at the Newport Folk Festival
Bertha of Grateful Drag fame
Guitarist and pedal steel player performing at the Newport Folk Festival
War On Drugs
White-haired woman reading from a book at a microphone at the Newport Folk Festival
Joan Baez
Guitarist singing on stage at the Newport Folk Festival
Conan O’Brien
Performer leaping on stage at the Newport Folk Festival
Black Pumas
Saxophonist performing at the Newport Folk Festival
Cory Wong & Friends
Guitarist with a white hollow-body guitar on a festival stage
Hozier
Singer in a white T-shirt performing at the Newport Folk Festival
De La Soul
Accordion player performing at the Newport Folk Festival
Guitarist in a straw hat seated on stage at the Newport Folk Festival
Taj Mahal
Singer pointing skyward on stage at the Newport Folk Festival
Dropkick Murphys
Woman in a yellow gown playing acoustic guitar at the Newport Folk Festival
Sierra Elizabeth Ferrell
Singer in a fringed western outfit giving two thumbs up at the Newport Folk Festival
Elle King
Woman playing banjo at a microphone on a festival stage
Rhiannon Giddens
Festivalgoers dancing in a circle on a sunny lawn at the Newport Folk Festival
Festivalgoers join hands during a spiritual circle led by the Eastern Medicine Singers.
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