It was one of those moments that you will never forget on Sunday at the 2015 Newport Folk Festival.

It was a Newport Folk Festival first when Christopher Paul Stelling proposed to his girlfriend, Julia Christgau, after a standing ovation at the end of their set on the Harbor Stage at Fort Adams State Park.

As you can see in the video, the moment brought Jay Sweet, Producer of the Newport Folk Festival, to tears.

Christopher Paul Stelling is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Brooklyn, New York.

 

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...

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