Arts & Culture

Discover all that’s happening, new, and to do with live music and entertainment this weekend. Friday, September 7 Buskers: Live music at 9 pmCeltica: Karaoke at 10 pmClarke Cooke House: DJ & Dancing in the Boom Boom Room at 10 pmDiego’s Barrio Cantina (Middletown): Soul Keepers at 10 pmFirehouse Theater: The Bit Players at 8 pmJane Pickens Theater: The […]

Newport Galleries Night 2018 is underway and the season is in high gear at their member galleries, museums and cultural institutions with September Newport Gallery Night on Thursday, September 13th from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Their popular free Summer Guided Walking Art Tours continue for September Newport Gallery Night. And these short, informational tours […]

Newport Art Museum’s Art After Dark, which recently received the 2017 Editor’s Pick Award for Best Artsy Social Event by Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, is back on Thursday, September 13 from 5 – 9 pm. Each Art After Dark has unique programming for the whole family. This event joins the ranks of the many events and educational programs the Museum currently offers in its galleries at 76 Bellevue […]

Discover all that’s happening for live music and entertainment in and around Newport this week. Tuesday, September 4 Jane Pickens Theater: Three Identical Strangers at 4:45 pm, Eighth Grade at 7:30 pmOne Pelham East: Stu Sinclair at 9:30 pm Wednesday, September 5 Buskers Irish Pub: Open Mic at 9 pmFastnet Pub: Trivia at 9 pmJane Pickens […]

Rhode Island’s Official Tall Ship SSVOliver Hazard Perry is wrapping up a successful 2018 season with Island Moving Company’s site-specific production of Second Star to the Right: A Tale of Hook & Pan. The ticketed event, scheduled for September 6-10, will be danced on the docks at Fort Adams and on the deck and in the rigging of the 200 […]

Discover all that’s happening for live music, arts, entertainment, and theater this Labor Day Weekend across Newport County! Friday, August 31 Atlantic Resort: Sean Rivers at 4 pmBuskers: Live music at 9 pmCeltica: Karaoke at 10 pmClarke Cooke House: DJ & Dancing in the Boom Boom Room at 10 pmDiego’s Barrio Cantina (Middletown): Little Compton […]

The Town of Middletown is finishing its Monday Nights at Second Beach on Labor Day, September 3rd from 6:00 – 9:00 pm with the Travis Colby band. This event was originally scheduled for Monday, August 13 and rescheduled because of inclement weather. In addition to live music, there will be food trucks and small fire […]

On behalf of 2018 Newport Folk Festival performer Lucius, Newport Festivals Foundation announced on Tuesday via a press release that they have donated $5,000 to the Harmony Project – a nonprofit that provides free music instruction and instruments to youth in underserved areas of LA. The funds will be used to underwrite expenses for Harmony Project’s Leimert Park […]

More than 360 music fans from around the world turned out to celebrate the Newport Jazz and Folk festivals at Newport Festivals Foundation’s Eighth Annual Gala held at The Elms on Saturday, August 4. The dinner event, which raised more than $660,000, included performances by pianist Jon Batiste, vocalist Jazzmeia Horn and a special duo […]

Discover all that’s happening for live music, arts, entertainment, and theater this week across Newport County! Unless otherwise indicated, the venue is located in Newport. Bold listings are our advertisers and supporters. Please consider supporting them, they make what we do possible. Monday, August 27 Fastnet Pub: The Ubiquitones at 10 pmFifth Element: The Groove Merchants from […]

The Newport Art Museum and the Chanler at Cliff Walk will cohost a book signing and talk with author Donna M. Lucey, held on the Terrace at The Chanler at Cliff Walk, on Sunday, September 9 at 4 pm. Lucey will discuss her new book, Sargent’s Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas, which shares the lives of four remarkable […]

On Saturday, September 1st, the last free concert in this year’s Waterfront series will be a mini-Irish festival featuring RI-based Irish traditional artists.  The festivities are scheduled from 2 pm – 6 pm. A gazebo concert and dance with The Exiles (2pm) with former members of RI’s longstanding Pendragon folk ensemble and featuring National Heritage Award-winning dancer […]

With only a few summer weekends to go, now is the time to get out and enjoy some live music. We’ve got your “Six Picks” here, including a popular festival in Providence and more. Providence Folk Festival Sunday (PVD) What would Roger Williams think? The 5th annual Providence Folk Festival is back at the Roger […]

Here’s where to find entertainment and live music in and around Newport, RI this weekend. Friday, August 24 Atlantic Resort: Sean Rivers at 4 pmBuskers: Live music at 9 pmCeltica: Karaoke at 10 pmClarke Cooke House: DJ & Dancing in the Boom Boom Room at 10 pmDiego’s Barrio Cantina (Middletown): Los Gallos Locos at 10 […]

The Newport Art Museum’s beloved art making event and fundraiser, Wet Paint, wrapped up on Sunday, August 12 raising a grand total of $121,780 for the Museum’s exhibitions, outreach, education and historic preservation. On Saturday, 380 artists of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels made art and donated their work, much of it still wet, to the Museum. Over […]

Discover all that’s happening for live music, arts, entertainment, and theater this week across Newport County! Unless otherwise indicated, the venue is located in Newport. Bold listings are our advertisers and supporters. Please consider supporting them, they make what we do possible. Monday, August 20 Fastnet Pub: The Ubiquitones at 10 pmFifth Element: The Groove Merchants from […]

On Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 6pm, the Newport Art Museum will host the Navy Band Northeast’s Alumni Big Band for a free, family-friendly outdoor concert on the Museum’s lawn. Always popular, the Navy Band Northeast’s upcoming performance is particularly exciting as the band will be joined by past alumni musicians. This special reunion concert of the Alumni […]

Discover all that’s happening, new, and to do in and around Newport for arts, live music, theater, and entertainment. Friday, August 17 Atlantic Resort: Sean Rivers at 4 pmBuskers: Live music at 9 pmCeltica: Karaoke at 10 pmClarke Cooke House: DJ & Dancing in the Boom Boom Room at 10 pmDiego’s Barrio Cantina (Middletown): The […]

Discover all that’s happening for live music, arts, entertainment, and theater this week across Newport County! Unless otherwise indicated, the venue is located in Newport. Monday, August 13 Fastnet Pub: The Ubiquitones at 10 pmFifth Element: The Groove Merchants from 7 pm to 10 pmFirehouse Theater: Laughter For Locals with The Bit Players at 8 pmJane Pickens […]

Island Moving Company, Newport’s contemporary ballet company announces the return of Second Star to the Right: A Tale of Hook and Pan. The site-specific ballet is in the tradition of Island Moving Company’s renowned Newport Nutcracker at Rosecliff and legendary Dracula at Belcourt Castle.  In partnership with Rhode Island’s official flagship and Tall Ship ambassador, […]

Discover all that’s happening, new, and to do in and around Newport this weekend for live music, movies, and entertainment. Friday, August 10 Atlantic Resort: Sean Rivers at 4 pmBuskers: Live music at 9 pmCeltica: Karaoke at 10 pmClarke Cooke House: DJ & Dancing in the Boom Boom Room at 10 pmDiego’s Barrio Cantina (Middletown): […]

The Newport Playhouse and Cabaret Restaurant will once again be transformed into a listening room tonight for their singer-songwriter series “Newport to Nashville”. Newport To Nashville is meant to be a Nashville Style Listening Room, that showcases local and national songwriters performing their own original songs. In this round, Rhode Island musicians Emily Hahn and […]

Discover all that’s happening, new, and to do in and around Newport this week for live music, movies, and entertainment. Tuesday, August 7 Easton’s Beach: Black Tie Band at 6 pmJane Pickens Theater: Three Identical Strangers at 4:45 pm & 7:30 pmLanding: The Naticks at 3:30 pm, Sam James at 7 pmNewport Blues Cafe: Felix Brown at […]

The Newport Jazz Festival held its Friday evening concert once again at the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino on Friday night. World-renowned Pat Metheny took to the stage at 8 pm and provided a beautiful evening of music with his band and with his guitar before turning the stage over to José […]

Newport Galleries Night 2018 is underway and the season is in high gear at our member galleries, museums and cultural institutions with August Newport Gallery Night on Thursday, August 9th from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Our popular FREE Summer Guided Walking Art Tours continue for August Newport Gallery Night. And these short, informational tours […]

Greg Abate, who is listed in Downbeat Magazine’s latest critics poll as among jazz music’s top rising stars, brought his uptown jazz quintet to The Newport Playhouse & Cabaret Restaurant for a high powered night of music on Thursday. Known for his straight-ahead jazz and bee-bop style, Abate’s performance is part of Bridgefest, linking the folk […]

Gates for the 2018 Newport Jazz Festival will open at 10 am this morning at Fort Adams State Park. This year’s event yet again promises to be a jam-packed weekend of music, here’s a look at the schedule. If you want to personalize your own schedule on your mobile phone, be sure to get one of […]

Fans from across the globe will take over scenic Fort Adams today through Sunday to hear some of the world’s greatest musicians at the Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Investment Managers, but no one should leave the Festival without visiting the Craft and Food Vendors who set up shop on the Festival grounds. From […]

Discover all that’s happening for live music and entertainment in and around Newport this weekend. Friday, August 3rd Atlantic Resort: Sean Rivers at 4 pmBuskers: Live music at 9 pmCeltica: Karaoke at 10 pmClarke Cooke House: DJ & Dancing in the Boom Boom Room at 10 pmDiego’s Barrio Cantina (Middletown): The Devil Fish at 10 […]

The University of Rhode Island’s Big Band will perform again at this year’s Newport Jazz Festival. Performing music by classical jazz musicians like Duke Ellington and contemporary artists like Maria Schneider, 17 URI students and alumni will take the Harbor Stage at the 2018 Newport Jazz Fest on  Saturday, August 4 that 11 a.m. “Concertgoers […]

More than a dozen musicians from across Rhode Island performed on the same stages used during Newport Folk Festival and Newport Jazz Festival at Fort Adams on Wednesday night. The official Bridgefest event, Local Bridges: A Celebration of Rhode Island’s Music Community presented by Newport Festivals Foundation, featured Franny & Friends, Wave Length Band, The […]

Since 1954, the Newport Jazz Festival® has been a prominent showcase for jazz trumpeters to show off their chops – from Louis Armstrong playing “Blue Room” and Dizzy Gillespie performing “Manteca” to Miles Davis blowing cool on “‘Round Midnight,” and Wynton Marsalis putting his neo-classic nuances on “Black Codes from the Underground.” In every era, […]

In a 2017 interview with the Providence Journal, George Wein, the legendary impresario and founder of the Newport Jazz Festival remarked that “We can’t all be Charlie Parkers or John Coltranes, but we can be creative leaders. Create your own group, your own sound, and add to what jazz is.” The 2018 edition of the Newport […]

Discover all that’s happening for live music, arts, entertainment, and theater this week across Newport County! Unless otherwise indicated, the venue is located in Newport. Bridgefest, the annual celebration of Jazz, Folk and Newport’s rich musical community, returns to Newport Monday through Thursday and will feature local artists performing at 19 events at 14 venues over four days (scroll down for […]

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Have a look back at day #2 of the 2018 Newport Folk Festival. Photos by Patrick Murphy.

Day 1 of the 2018 Newport Folk Festival is now history and it is one that folks will remember and be talking about for quite a while. The day kicked off with stellar performances by Boston’s Darlingside on the Harbor Stage and ended with David Crosby surprising the crowd when he joined Jason Isbell and […]

Gates for the 2018 Newport Folk Festival will open at 10 am this morning at Fort Adams State Park. This year’s event yet again promises to be a jam-packed weekend of music, here’s a look at the schedule; Here’s this year’s schedule! If you want to personalize your own schedule on your mobile phone, be sure to […]

Discover all that’s happening for live music, arts, entertainment, and theater this week across Newport County! Unless otherwise indicated, the venue is located in Newport. Friday, July 27 Atlantic Resort: Sean Rivers at 4 pmBuskers: Live music at 9 pmCeltica: Karaoke at 10 pmClarke Cooke House: DJ & Dancing in the Boom Boom Room at 10 pmDiego’s […]

Joe Louis Walker, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee and four-time Blues Music Award winner celebrates a career that exceeds a half a century. His new album Everybody Wants A Piece cements his legacy as a prolific torchbearer for the blues. Walker joins What’sUpNewp’s Frank Prosnitz on this edition of the Open Forum on AM 1540 WADK […]

Greg Abate, who is listed in Downbeat Magazine’s latest critics poll as among jazz music’s top rising stars, brings his uptown jazz quintet for a high powered night of music at the Newport Playhouse, Thursday, August 2. Known for his straight-ahead jazz and bee-bop style, Abate’s performance is part of Bridgefest, linking the folk and […]

The next few weeks are arguably the busiest for restaurants, retailers, streets and just about everything else in Newport.  A lot of that has to do with a few of largest events of the summer taking place, Newport Festival Foundation’s Newport Folk Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, and Newport BridgeFest. We love numbers and fun facts, […]

University of Rhode Island Professor Mary Healey Jamiel’s awarding-winning documentary film “Searchdog”  has been released to an international audience on i-Tunes, Amazon, and Google Play. Prior to the official release Wednesday, July 18, in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, the film had been No. 2 for i-Tunes pre-sales. The 88-minute film, about […]

Discover all that’s happening for live music, arts, entertainment, and theater this week across Newport County! Unless otherwise indicated, the venue is located in Newport. Monday, July 23 Fastnet Pub: The Ubiquitones at 10 pmFifth Element: The Groove Merchants from 7 pm to 10 pmFirehouse Theater: Laughter For Locals with The Bit Players at 8 pmJane Pickens […]

The Newport Jazz Festival has showcased some of the finest bandleaders in jazz from Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dave Brubeck, to Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams and Miles Davis. Make your way to The-City-By-The-Sea where the 2018 edition of the festival will present a cache of leaders who move the music forward while paying […]

Here’s what’s up in and around Newport this weekend for live music, karaoke, comedy, movies, and other forms of entertainment, enjoy! Friday, July 20th Atlantic Beach Resort: Rosewood Trio at 4 pmBuskers: Live music at 9 pmCeltica: Karaoke at 10 pmClarke Cooke House: DJ & Dancing in the Boom Boom Room at 10 pmDiego’s Barrio Cantina […]

For the past six decades, the Newport Jazz Festival has been the premier showcase for jazz’s most supremely loved vocalists, from Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, to Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. And, this year’s edition of the festival continues in that hallowed tradition.   Whether he’s channeling the message music of Gil Scott-Heron or […]

(Photo: Patrick Murphy introduces The Z-Boys at the 2017 Live Local Music Festival) The Live Local Music Festival, a celebration of the art and culture that defines Newport and Rhode Island as a whole, is set to take place on Saturday, July 21st. Jamie Horoszko and Patrick Murphy, co-founders of the Festival, and musician Amato Zinno […]

Ray Harrington, winner of the Los Angeles Comedy Festival, brings his irreverent and improvisational comedy to the Newport Playhouse at 102 Connell Highway, Newport, opening the theater’s comedy series at 8 p.m., Thursday (July 19). Harrington headlines an evening that also features Rob Greene, a semi-finalist at Boston’s Comedy Festival, and Marie Forster, a Rhode […]

Three time Grammy winner Tom Chapin, described in the New York Times as “one of the great personalities in contemporary folk music,” comes to the Narragansett Community Center, 53 Mumford Road, Narragansett, for a 7:30 p.m. performance on Saturday, July 28. The performance is part of Congregation Beth David’s summer entertainment series, which concludes on […]

Discover all that’s happening for live music, arts, entertainment, and theater this week across Newport County! The Newport Music Festival continues this week, visit www.newportmusic.org for a full schedule of events. Unless otherwise indicated, the venue is located in Newport. Monday, July 16th Fastnet Pub: The Ubiquitones at 10 pmFifth Element: The Groove Merchants from 7 pm […]

The majority of surfing movies transport us to exotic locations where impossibly blue water forms itself into perfect waves so that exceptional athletes can perform high-flying, occasionally death-defying maneuvers on them. There is some of that in the film Andy Irons: Kissed By God but the latest film from Teton Gravity Research offers much more. […]

Island Moving Company and BankNewport are partnering to give away 150 free tickets to the opening night of the ninth annual Great Friends Dance Festival on July 18, 2018, at St Michaels Country Day School. The community tickets are being distributed to local residents through area social service agencies. “Through our partnership with Island Moving […]

The second Hogan Associates “Music on the Porch” concert at the Eisenhower House in Fort Adams State Park will be on Thursday, July 19th from 5-7 PM.  The free concerts will feature the Lois Vaughan Quintet with special performances from guitarist and singer Paul Williams.  Concert guests can also partake in refreshments from Newport Storm Breweries and […]

With just two weeks until Newport Folk Festival gets underway, organizers of the sold-out event updated their smartphone apps overnight, announcing the 2018 lineup schedule. In an effort to encourage people to download their latest smartphone app, organizers have only released the schedule on their iOS App and Android App.  iOS App: http://apple.co/1Httwl1Android App: http://bit.ly/29wkCwq Newport Folk Festival […]

On Sunday, August 5, a Mothership commander will land on the Fort Adams stage when the 76-year old vocalist, songwriter, producer, bandleader, icon and Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame Inductee George Clinton and his supergroup, the Grammy Award-winning Parliament Funkadelic, perform for the first time at the Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Investment Managers. In […]

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. Unless otherwise indicated, the venue is located in Newport. Friday, July 13th Atlantic Beach Resort: Rosewood Trio at 4 pmBuskers: Live music at 9 pmCeltica: Karaoke at 10 pmClarke Cooke House: DJ & Dancing in […]

On Thursday, July 12th, The Newport Playhouse and Cabaret Restaurant will once again be transformed into a listening room for Newport to Nashville. Newport To Nashville is a Nashville Style Listening Room, that showcases local and national songwriters performing their own original songs. In this round, three performers will take the stage for an entertaining […]

The Arts and Cultural Alliance (ACA) of Newport County will feature Ronald Lee Fleming’s Nymphaeum vision in a special two-part ‘Arts Behind the Scenes.’  The first part will focus on the buildup of the Nymphaeum, as well as the Library, indoor theater, outdoor pool, and Cascade of Years of Living Dangerously (CYLD).   The second part […]

Here’s a look at all the live music and entertainment that’s worth seeing, hearing, doing, or knowing about in Newport County this week. Unless otherwise indicated, the venue is located in Newport. Monday, July 9th Fastnet Pub: The Ubiquitones at 10 pmFifth Element: The Groove Merchants from 7 pm to 10 pmFirehouse Theater: Laughter For Locals at […]

Jonathan Perry from the Newport Playhouse & Cabaret Restaurant joined What’sUpNewp’s Frank Prosnitz on this edition of The Open Forum on AM 1540 WADK.s Among the variety of topics that made up the conversation was Newport To Nashville, Cabaret Comedy Night, Newport Bridgefest events, the opening of No Tell Motel, and more upcoming events and […]

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. Unless otherwise indicated, the venue is located in Newport. Friday, July 6th Buskers: Live music at 9 pmCeltica: Karaoke at 10 pmClarke Cooke House: DJ & Dancing in the Boom Boom Room at 10 […]

For six decades, the Newport Jazz Festival has showcased the music of the most important female musicians in the art form – from Mary Lou Williams and Toshiko Akiyoshi, to Carla Bley and the late Geri Allen. And this edition of the festival offers a powerful potpourri of sophisticated ladies, who, while maintaining the base […]

Island Books has announced that children’s author Chris Gorman will be at their store on Saturday, July 14th at 11 am.  Gorman will be reading from and signing copies of his new children’s book One of a Kind. One of a Kind is a picture book celebration of individuality and community. It tells the story of a […]

Newport Art Museum’s Art  After Dark, which recently received the 2017 Editor’s Pick Award for Best Artsy Social Event by Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, is back on Thursday, July 12 from 5 – 9 pm. Each Art After Dark has unique programming for the whole family. This event joins the ranks of the many events and educational programs the Museum currently offers in its galleries at 76 Bellevue […]

On Friday, July 20, 2018 the Newport Art Museum will hold its annual summer gala, the Artists’ Ball, the Museum’s largest fundraiser of the year. This fashion forward event’s presenting sponsor is Oscar de la Renta and will feature guest artist Donald Robertson. Tickets for the event, as well as a preview of the items […]

Here’s a look at all the live music and entertainment that’s worth seeing, hearing, doing, or knowing about in Newport County this week. Unless otherwise indicated, venue is located in Newport. Monday, July 2nd Diego’s: Trivia at 9:30 pmFastnet Pub: The Ubiquitones at 10 pmFifth Element: The Groove Merchants from 7 pm to 10 pmFirehouse […]

A free music camp at the Rhythm & Roots Festival in Charlestown is open to all children 8-18, even if their families are not attending the annual music and dance festival at Ninigret Park over Labor Day Weekend. Kids can learn to play, sing and perform traditional Cajun music. Classes are offered in fiddle, guitar, […]

Here’s what’s happening for live music and entertainment in and around Newport County this week. Friday, June 29th Atlantic Resort: Sean Rivers at 4 pmBuskers: Live music at 9 pmCeltica: Karaoke at 10 pmClarke Cooke House: DJ & Dancing in the Boom Boom Room at 10 pmDiego’s Barrio Cantina: Live music at 8 pmDockside: DJs […]

Time is running out to take advantage of the local discount for tickets to the Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Investment Manager, so head to the Newport Visitors Information Center by Wednesday, July 4. Discount tickets are just $50 for General Admission to the concerts at Fort Adams State Park on Friday, August 3, […]

Newport Festivals Foundation announced via press release today the schedule for their 2018 Bridgefest. Bridgefest,  the annual celebration of Jazz, Folk and Newport’s rich musical community, returns to Newport from July 30 – August 2 and will feature local artists performing at 19 events at 14 venues over four days. Produced by Newport Festivals Foundation, […]