Newport, RI – Within just an hour or two, all 30,000 tickets to the Newport Folk Festival have sold out. Yes, once again without a single lineup announcement made.
If you weren’t one of the lucky onese to get your hands on tickets to the 2019 Newport Folk Festival when they went on sale at 10 am this morning, you may still be able to get your hands on tickets through Lyte.
Ryan Belmore is the owner and publisher of What's Up Newp. He took over the publication in 2012 and has grown it into a three-time Rhode Island Monthly Best Local News Blog (2018, 2019, 2020). He was named LION Publishers Member of the Year in 2020 and received the Dominique Award from the Arts & Cultural Society of Newport County the same year. He has been awarded grants for investigative and community journalism, and continues to coach and mentor new local news publications nationwide. Ryan... More by Ryan Belmore
