{"id":976649,"date":"2020-04-29T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=991514"},"modified":"2020-04-29T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T19:00:41","slug":"2020-newport-folk-and-jazz-festivals-canceled-due-to-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/2020-newport-folk-and-jazz-festivals-canceled-due-to-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals Canceled Due to Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This year\u2019s long-standing Newport Folk and Jazz festivals have been canceled due to ongoing health and safety concerns due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe we can emerge from this adversity stronger and more connected than ever before,\u201d said Jay Sweet, the executive producer of the festivals. <\/p>\n

The Newport Folk and Jazz festivals are two of the most historic and longest running music festivals in the country. The Jazz Festival began in 1954, and the Folk Festival followed five years later, in 1959.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Newport Folk Festival<\/a> would have featured the National, Randy Newman, Mandy Moore, Waxahatchee, and others, and the Jazz Festival was to include top names like Wynton Marsalis, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, and Jimmy Cliff.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough we won\u2019t be able to gather at the fort this summer, rest assured we have invited all the announced artists to join us next year,\u201d said Sweet, who made the decision to cancel the festivals in accordance with Rhode Island\u2019s ongoing restrictions on mass gatherings. \u201cIn the meantime, we promise we will all commune one way or another on our festival weekend. As always, we have some secret surprises in store as well, so stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks. Until then, be present, be kind, be open, be together, and stay strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ticket holders have the option of receiving a full refund, applying their tickets to a membership that essentially gives them a presale package for 2021, or donating their tickets to the Newport Festivals Foundation, which has kick-started<\/a> a COVID-19<\/a> Musician Relief Fund to provide aid to artists who have played either festival in the past.<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s long-standing Newport Folk and Jazz festivals have been canceled due to ongoing health and safety concerns due to the coronavirus pandemic. \u201cI believe we can emerge from this adversity stronger and more connected than ever before,\u201d said Jay Sweet, the executive producer of the festivals.  The Newport Folk and Jazz festivals are two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-976649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 04:44:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}