NEWPORT, R.I. – Blue skies and strong ticket sales blessed this year’s Newport Folk Festival, two days of veteran acts and up-and-comers from a variety of musical genres.
An estimated 10,000 people attended the long-running festival Sunday at Fort Adams State Park, and they were treated to performances from Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, Wanda Jackson and more than a dozen other acts on three stages set around Newport’s historic fort.
Hundreds more fans listened from sailboats, kayaks and rafts just offshore.
“We’ve been trying to get here for 40 years,” said Terry Reese, of Fallbrook, Calif., who attended the festival with her husband, Donn, to celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary. “We wanted to hear real music, music that’s not canned or packaged.”
The festival, first held in 1959 and known as the place where Bob Dylan went electric in 1965, sold out in advance for the first time this year. Festival creator George Wein
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