Our Newport Live Music and Entertainment Guide is Newport County’s premier and most comprehensive source for live music and entertainment in our area.

Here’s a look at all the live music and entertainment that’s worth seeing, hearing, doing, or knowing about in Newport County this weekend.

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Friday, December 1st

  • Buskers: Live music at 9 pm
  • Celtica: Karaoke at 10 pm
  • Clarke Cooke House: DJ& Dancing in the Boom Boom Room at 10 pm
  • Firehouse Theater: The Bit Players at 8 pm
  • Gurney’s: Live music from 6 pm to 9 pm
  • Jane Pickens Theater: Loving Vincent at 2 pm, 4:30 pm & 7:30 pm
  • Jimmy’s Saloon: Metal w/ ICE GIANT / Episodes  at 9 pm
  • Jo’s American Bistro: John and Joanne from 7 pm to 10 pm
  • Midtown Oyster Bar: The C-Note Missionaries at 10 pm
  • Newport Blues Cafe: Juice Box at 10 pm
  • Newport Playhouse & Cabaret Restaurant: Dashing Through The Snow at 6 pm
  • Newport Vineyards: Holiday Fireside Live Music Friday: Grayson Ty from 5 pm to 8 pm
  • One Pelham East: Sweet Tooth & The Sugar Babies at 10 pm
  • Pour Judgement: Live music at 10 pm
  • Speakeasy: Live music at 10 pm
  • The Cafe at Parlor Newport: The Z-Boys, Crooked Coast, Analog at 9 pm
  • Wharf Pub: Anamcara at 8:30 pm

Saturday, December 2nd

  • Buskers: Brian Twohey at 8 pm
  • Celtica: Karaoke at 10 pm
  • Clarke Cooke House: Brian Scott in The Candy Store at 10 pm, DJ & Dancing in the Boom Boom Room at 10 pm
  • Firehouse Theater: The Bit Players at 8 pm
  • Gurney’s Newport Resort & Marina: Live music from 6 pm to 9 pm
  • Jane Pickens Theater: Loving Vincent at 2 pm, 4:30 pm & 7:30 pm
  • Jimmy’s Saloon: Live music at 9 pm
  • Midtown Oyster Bar: John Erickson at 10 pm
  • Narragansett Cafe (Jamestown): Live music at 9 pm
  • Newport Blues Cafe: Fever at 10 pm
  • Newport Grand: Big Me at 9 pm
  • Newport Marriott: Mark Gorman from 8 pm to 11 pm
  • Newport Playhouse & Cabaret Restaurant: Dashing Through The Snow at 6 pm
  • Newport Vineyards:  Barrel of Laughs Comedy Show: Brian Beaudoin at 8 pm
  • O’Brien’s Pub: DJ C Gray at 8 pm
  • One Pelham East: Good Will & Them Apples from 10 pm to 1 am
  • Pour Judgement: The Lost Arts at 9 pm
  • Saltwater at Newport Harbor Hotel: Anamcara at 7 pm
  • Speakeasy Bar & Grille: Straight Outta Rehab at 10 pm
  • Tavern On Broadway: Live music at 10 pm.
  • The Cafe at Parlor: Bob-A-Palooza from 7 pm to 11:30 pm
  • The Wharf Pub: Mike Baez at 9 pm
  • Vanderbilt Grace: Kristine on piano at 6 pm

Sunday, December 3rd

  • Atlantic Resort (Middletown): The Mac Chrupcala Jazz Trio from 3 pm to 7 pm
  • Clarke Cooke House: Bobby Ferreira at 12:30 pm
  • Fastnet Pub: Irish Sessions at 6 pm
  • Fifth Element: Greg Silva and friends from 12 pm to 3 pm
  • Gurney’s Newport Resort & Marina: Live music from 6 pm to 9 pm
  • Jane Pickens Theater: Exhibition On The Screen: Canaletto & The Art of Venice at 1 pm,  Three Billboards at 4:30 pm & 7:30 pm
  • Jo’s American Bistro: The Playboys from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
  • Midtown Oyster Bar: Justin Pomfret from 4 pm to 7 pm
  • Narragansett Cafe (Jamestown): Live music from 4 pm to 7 pm
  • Newport Playhouse & Cabaret Restaurant: Dashing Through The Snow  at 11 am
  • Pour Judgement: The Kane Brothers at 3 pm, Los Duderinos at 9 pm
  • Speakeasy Bar & Grille: Sean Rivers at 10 pm

Ryan Belmore

Ryan Belmore is the Owner and Publisher of What'sUpNewp.  He has been involved with What’sUpNewp since shortly after its launch in 2012, proudly leading it to be named Best Local News Blog in Rhode Island by Rhode Island Monthly readers in 2018, 2019, and 2020 and an honorable mention in the Common Good Awards in 2021.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Potter League For Animals. He previously served on the boards of Fort Adams Trust, Lucy's Hearth, and the Arts & Cultural Alliance for Newport County.

In 2020, he was named Member of the Year by LION and won the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Newport County's Dominque Award.

He is a member of Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the North American Snowsports Journalists Association.

Born and raised in Rhode Island, he spent 39 years living in Rhode Island before recently moving to Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife and two rescue dogs. He still considers Rhode Island home, and visits at least once a month.