Discover all that’s happening, new, and to do in and around Newport County this weekend.
All Weekend
27 Open Houses to check out in Newport County this weekend: August 12 – 14
‘Six Picks’ Music: The best in local music this weekend (August 12-14)
Six Picks Events: What’s Up in RI this weekend (Aug. 12-14)
Safe Harbor Race Weekend returns August 12 – 14
RI Shakespeare Rep to present ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at John Brown House in Providence Aug. 12-14
Friday, August 12
The Gottabees bring ‘Go Home Tiny Monster’ to Theatre By The Sea on August 12
Chris Lane coming to Bold Point Park on August 12
Things To Do
- 9 am: Tree Walk: Aquidneck Park – A Closer Look at Beech Leaf Disease at Aquidneck Park
- 10 am: Summer Stories at Whitehorne House Museum
- 11 am: Coastal Queen’s Lighthouse and Mimosa Cruises departing from Bowen’s Wharf, Newport
- 11 am: Newport History Walking Tours: Rogues and Scoundrels
- 12 pm to 4 pm: Ketel One Botanicals Spritz Bar at Hotel Viking
- 1 pm & 3 pm: Coastal Queen’s Scenic Bay Cruises departing from Bowen’s Wharf, Newport
- 4:30 pm: After the Gilded Age: “Grey Garden” at The JPT
- 5 pm to 7 pm: Waterfront Concert Series at King Park
- 6 pm: Tiverton Concerts in the Park: Keats & Co
- 7 pm: Birds and Brews at Ragged Island Brewing Co.
- 8 pm: Improv with the Bit Players at The Firehouse Theater
- For more events and things to do, visit our events calendar.
Entertainment
- @ The Deck: The Complaints at 9 pm
- Bar & Board: Lois Vaughan Jazz Trio from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
- Blue Anchor Grill: John & Joanne from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
- Celtica: Karaoke at 10 pm
- Dockside: Spiffy at 9 pm
- Gulf Stream Bar & Grille: Butch McCarthy & Steve Mazza from 6 pm to 9 pm
- Gurney’s: DJ from 5 pm to 10 pm on The Firepit Deck
- Johnny’s at Wyndham: Live music from 6 pm to 9 pm
- JPT Film & Event Center: Grey Gardens at 4:30 pm, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On at 7:30 pm
- La Forge: Dave Manuel from 6 pm to 9 pm
- Landing: John Erikson at 1 pm, Dave Alves Band at 4:30 pm, Straight Outta Rehab at 8 pm
- Narragansett Cafe: Neal & The Vipers from 8 pm to 11:30 pm
- Newport Blues Cafe: Inside Out at 9 pm
- O’Brien’s Pub: John Erikson at 4:30 pm, DJ Remedy (video DJ) from 10 pm to close
- Officers Club: The Naticks from 5:30 pm to 8 pm
- One Pelham East: Live music from 4 pm to 7:30 pm, live music at 8:30 pm, DJ at 11 pm
- Speakeasy: Live music at 10 pm
- The Firehouse Theatre: Live improv comedy with The Bit Players at 8 pm
- Top Of Pelham: Dueling Pianos at 7:30 pm
- Vieste Simply Italian: Live music at 7:30 pm
City & Government
- No meetings are scheduled in Newport County.
- See a full list of public meetings in Rhode Island here.
Saturday, August 13
Newport International Polo Series will feature Palm Beach versus Newport on Saturday
Lobby Muddy Festival returns on August 13, proceeds to benefit Newport Mental Health
Two shows added to Bold Point Park including Blues Festival with Buddy Guy August 13
What’s Up Interview: Award-winning RI hip-hop artist Chachi Carvalho, playing Waterfire August 13
What’s Up Interview: Kenny Wayne Shepherd, playing Bold Point with Buddy Guy Saturday August 13
Things To Do
- 9 am to 12 pm: Aquidneck Growers Market at Embrace Home Loans
- 9 am to 5 pm: 2022 Eastern RI 4-H Fair at Glen Farm
- 9:30 am: Yoga for All at The Norman Bird Sanctuary
- 10 am to 5 pm: Newport Car Museum Hoods Up Weekend
- 11 am: Coastal Queen’s Lighthouse and Mimosa Cruises departing from Bowen’s Wharf, Newport
- 11 am: Newport History Walking Tours: Common Burying Ground
- 12 pm to 4 pm: Ketel One Botanicals Spritz Bar at Hotel Viking
- 1 pm & 3 pm: Coastal Queen’s Scenic Bay Cruises departing from Bowen’s Wharf, Newport
- 2 pm: Newport History Walking Tours: Discover Colonial Newport
- 2 pm to 6 pm: Lobby Muddy Fest at On The Docks
- 3 pm: Whitehorne Day: Makers Past and Present at Whirehorne House Museum
- 5 pm: Newport International Polo Series
- 6 pm: Coastal Queen’s Evening Cocktail Cruises departing from Bowen’s Wharf, Newport
- 7 pm to 10 pm: Ketel Cafe at Hill Market at Hotel Viking
- 7 pm & 9 pm: Improv with the Bit Players at The Firehouse Theater
- For more events and things to do, visit our events calendar.
Entertainment
- Bar & Board: Mel at 7:30 pm
- Blue Anchor Grill: Steve Rodrigues from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
- Buskers: Brian Twohey at 9 pm
- Celtica: Karaoke at 10 pm
- Clarke Cooke House: Live music at 10 pm
- Dockside: Fast Times at 9 pm
- Fifth Element: Lois Vaughan Jazz Trio from 11 am to 3 pm
- Greenvale Vineyards: Dick Lupino & friends from 1 pm to 4 pm
- Gulf Stream Bar & Grille: Live music from 6 pm to 9 pm
- Gurney’s: Chelley Knight Band from 6 pm to 9 pm at The Pineapple Club, DJ from 5 pm to 10 pm on The Firepit Deck
- Johnny’s at Wyndham: Live music from 6 pm to 9 pm
- JPT Film & Event Center: High Society at 4:30 pm, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On at 7:30 pm
- La Forge: Dave Manuel from 6 pm to 10 pm
- Landing: The Naticks at 1 pm, Jim Devlin at 4:30 pm, Blockhead at 8 pm
- Narragansett Cafe: Heavy Rescue from 8 pm to 11:30 pm
- Newport Blues Cafe: Never In Vegas at 9 pm
- O’Brien’s Pub: C Gray the DJ from 10 pm to close
- One Pelham East: Live music at 4:30 pm, live music at 8:30 pm, DJ at 11 pm
- Rusty’s Bar & Grille: My Joe Called Life at 8 pm
- Shops at Long Wharf: In Tandem from 1 pm to 5 pm
- Speakeasy: Live music at 10 pm
- The Firehouse Theatre: Live improv comedy with The Bit Players at 7 pm & 9 pm
- The Reef: Brian Scott from 1 pm to 3 pm, Nate C. from 4 pm to 7 pm, OutCry from 7 pm to 10 pm
- Top of Pelham: Dueling Pianos at 7:30 pm & 10:30 pm
- Vieste Simply Italian: Live music at 7:30 pm
City & Government
- Portsmouth: Prudence Island Water District at 10 am
- See a full list of public meetings in Rhode Island here.
Sunday, August 14
Outdoor concert series at Lippitt House Museum returns on August 14 and 21
Things To Do
- 8 am to 10 am: Cars & Coffee at Salve Regina University
- 9 am to 5 pm: 2022 Eastern RI 4-H Fair at Glen Farm
- 10 am to 5 pm: Newport Car Museum Hoods Up Weekend
- 11 am: Newport History Walking Tours: Golden to Gilded
- 11 am: Coastal Queen’s Lighthouse and Mimosa Cruises departing from Bowen’s Wharf, Newport
- 11 am: Colonial Jewish Walking Tours
- 12 pm to 3 pm: Second Sundays at Prescott Farm: Audubon Society of RI
- 12 pm to 4 pm: Ketel One Botanicals Spritz Bar at Hotel Viking
- 1 pm & 3 pm: Coastal Queen’s Scenic Bay Cruises departing from Bowen’s Wharf, Newport
- 2 pm: ICE CREAM SOCIAL at The Commons in Little Compton
- 3 pm to 6 pm: Concerts in King Park – NIMFest – Sunday Gazebo Concerts at King Park
- 3 pm to 6 pm: Benefit Concert for PARL at Newport Blues Café featuring John Cafferty and James Montgomery
- 4 pm: Pints for Play! at Ragged Island Brewery
- 5 pm: Summer Concert Series at Burr’s Hill Park
- 6 pm: Coastal Queen’s Evening Cocktail Cruises departing from Bowen’s Wharf, Newport
- 6 pm: FirstWorks Summer Beats Concert Series: William Cepeda Afro-Rican Jazz
- For more events and things to do, visit our events calendar.
Entertainment
- @ The Deck: Kenra Girard at 7 pm
- Castle Hill Inn: Live Jazz Music from 11:30 am to 3 pm at the Terrace Bar
- Clarke Cooke House: Bobby Ferreira at 12:30 pm
- Fastnet Irish Pub: Irish Sessions from 6 pm to 9 pm
- Fifth Element: Lois Vaughan Jazz Trio at 11 am
- Gulf Stream Bar & Grille: Michelle Saylors from 12 pm to 3 pm
- Gurney’s: Rikki Rocksteady Band from 6 pm to 9 pm at The Pineapple Club
- Irish American Club: Karaoke at 9 pm
- Johnny’s at Wyndham: Live music from 3 pm to 7 pm
- King Park: Swinglane Orchestra from 3 pm to 6 pm
- La Forge: Dave Manuel from 11 am to 2 pm
- Landing: Nick Sproviero at 1 pm, John Erikson at 4:30 pm, Frye Street Radio at 8 pm
- Narragansett Cafe: Cee Cee & The Riders from 4 pm to 7 pm
- Newport Blues Cafe: Benefit Concert for PARL at Newport Blues Café featuring John Cafferty and James Montgomery from 3 pm to 6 pm
- O’Brien’s Pub: George Zecher on Steel Drums from 3 pm to 6 pm, Bingo inside at 7 pm
- One Pelham East: Live music at 5 pm
- Pour Judgement: Los Duderinos at 10 pm
- The Chanler at Cliff Walk: Blues & Jazz music in the Wine Garden from 2 pm to 5 pm
- The Firehouse Theater: Chase Ceglie Jazz Quartet at 5 pm
- The Reef: Brian Scott from 1 pm to 4 pm, Colin VanPelt from 6 pm to 9 pm
City & Government
- No meetings are scheduled in Newport County.
- See a full list of public meetings in Rhode Island here.
More Things To Do
Land Trust’s student art and writing contest opens, with winners to hang at the Newport Art Museum
Entries are due Dec. 4. Prizes run from $50 to $250, plus $500 grants to the first-place winners’ schools, and the work goes on view in the Cushing Gallery in February
MLK Community Center honors Gail Jacobs, Newport Mental Health and Liz Davis at annual meeting
Executive director Heather Hole Strout pointed to SNAP cuts, heavy snow and rising grocery and fuel prices as the year’s defining challenges
Free tour of St. Mary’s Cemetery on Saturday traces Newport’s Irish immigrant history
Guide Steve Marino leads a 45-minute walk through the burial ground of more than 1,000 Newporters. Meet at the Kingston Avenue gate at 1 p.m.
Salve Regina stages ‘The SpongeBob Musical’ at the Casino Theatre Nov. 5-8
Five performances, including a 10 a.m. Saturday show for families. Tickets are $17, $14 for children, military and seniors, and free for Salve students
J.T. Commons giving 10% of sales to the Middletown library on Nov. 17
The Friends of the Middletown Public Library are raising money to furnish the new building, which is scheduled to open in December
Newport Classical brings pianist Michael Leonardo Davidman and guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre to the Recital Hall in November
Davidman, winner of the 2025 American Piano Awards, makes his Newport debut Nov. 6. Feuillâtre, the first guitarist signed to Deutsche Grammophon in decades, plays a Spanish and Latin American program Nov. 20
JPT marks Halloween week with a John Carpenter triple feature, a 100-year-old silent film and ‘Psycho’
Saturday’s marathon pairs “They Live,” “Halloween” and a 4K restoration of “The Thing” with a live set by Salem Wolves. An all-day pass is $40
Meet Lucy Darling, the character who took over Carisa Hendrix’s career
The magician and comedian brings “Lucy Darling: You’re Welcome” to the Vets in Providence on Nov. 7. She grew up in Saskatchewan, where “most of my friends were farm animals and wheat”
‘Spooky State House’ returns to Providence on Oct. 29 with free trick-or-treating
Offices of the governor, secretary of state, attorney general, treasurer, lieutenant governor and both legislative chambers hand out treats from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Bring a canned good for the food bank and get a raffle entry
Bon Jovi returns to Gillette Stadium on July 28, 2027, first show there since 2013
The Forever Tour’s 2027 leg adds stadium dates in the U.K., Australia and North America. Artist presale registration is open now, with general sale Oct. 30
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