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NIMFEST returns to King Park

Good Morning, Newport! Today is Monday, June 16, the 167th day of 2025. There are 198 days left in the year.

🚨 You need to know

If you’re a fan of live outdoor music, Newport is once again the place to be this summer.

Discover Newport, the convention and visitors bureau for Newport and Bristol Counties, has compiled a comprehensive list of outdoor concerts taking place this summer in and around Newport.

“The 2025 lineup is vast and includes family-friendly concerts and children’s nights with an array of genres like jazz, folk, blues, house music and so much more,” Discover Newport writes on their website.

You can read the full story here or jump ahead to a particular location below.

  1. NIMFest
  2. Newport Live Summer Series
  3. Newport Craft Summer Series 2025
  4. Bristol Fourth Concert Series
  5. Blithewold Mansion’s Music at Sunset
  6. Warren Summer Concerts
  7. Barrington Summer Concert Series
  8. Tiverton Summer Concert Lineup
  9. Fogland Beach Sunset Series
  10. Touro Park Summer Concert Series
  11. 50th Anniversary Music Series at Sakonnet Vineyard
  12. LC350 Summer Sunset Concert Series

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What else you need to know

👉 Despite a steady light rain, hundreds filled all four corners of Middletown’s Two Mile Corner, carrying home-made signs and umbrellas, wearing slickers and carrying American flags, cheering as passing drivers blew their cars’ horns in support.

🎓 Middletown High School’s Class of 2025 celebrated its big day with a graduation ceremony at Gaudet Field on Saturday, June 14. Photo Gallery

ICYMI: Here’s more of our 2025 graduation coverage;

🍷 The Chanler at Cliff Walk has rolled out its wine garden experience for summer 2025. From May 23 to September 1, visitors can enjoy the Ca’ del Bosco Wine Garden, a scenic spot overlooking Easton’s Bay.

📈 Yesterday’s most-read

The following were yesterday’s most-read What’sUpNewp articles.

  1. ‘No King’ protests peaceful and defiant
  2. Obituary: Peter Barry
  3. Middletown High School celebrates Class of 2025 Graduation
  4. Obituary: Pamela Braman
  5. Morning Notes: Ca’ del Bosco Wine Garden offers coastal views and refreshing beverages through September 1
  6. Portsmouth resident wins $378,630 in Wild Money Jackpot
  7. Morning Notes: “No Kings, Yes Democracy” rally planned for today in Middletown
  8. Obituary: Catherine C. McGill
  9. Obituary: Marilyn Isabelle (Washburn) Murphy
  10. Traffic Alert: Lane shifts on East Main Road scheduled for next two weeks

📅 What’s Up Today

Weather Forecast

  • Today: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 67. East wind 7 to 10 mph.
  • Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59. East wind around 7 mph.

Marine Forecast

  • Today: NE wind 6 to 9 kt becoming E in the morning. Mostly cloudy. Seas 1 ft or less.
  • Tonight: E wind around 6 kt. Mostly cloudy. Seas 1 ft or less.
  • The coastal water temperature is 58 degrees.

Sun, Moon & Tide

  • Sunrise at 5:10 am. Sunset at 8:21 pm. 15 hours & 10 minutes of sun.
  • High tide at 12:17 p.m. Low tide at 5:24 am & 5:27 pm.
  • The lunar phase is a Waning Gibbous.

Things To Do

Live Music & Entertainment

  • Firehouse Theatre: NEE JAM at 7 pm
  • Landing: Justin Pomfret at 12:30 pm, Mark Flynn at 4 pm, The Naticks at 8 pm
  • Newport Craft: Bingo at 6 pm
  • Newport Harbor Island Resort: Music Bingo at 6:30 pm
  • Newport Pickleball Club: The Newport Groove Merchants at 6:30 pm
  • One Pelham East: Bruce Jacques at 9 pm
  • Perro Salado: John Monllos at 5:30 pm
  • Stoneacre Garden: Mah Jongg Monday at 6 pm
  • The Fastnet Pub: The Ubiquitones at 10 pm

Newport County Public Meetings

Cruise Ship Schedule

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...