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Newport Folk Festival 2011 Lineup
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 12:00AM 
Hot off the presses...here is your Newport Folk Festival 2011 lineup! As we've come to expect from Newport Folk, the lineup features a healthy mix of new faces, legends and a few interesting surprises (Gogol Bordello acoustic!). In recent years the festival has focused on putting up-and-coming indie artists alongside folk legends, fostering a collaborative spirit and it looks like this year will follow that trend. Veterans like The Decemberists, M. Ward and Gillian Welch (collaboration, perhaps?) join fresh faces like The Head And The Heart, Middle Brother and Mountain Man alongside legends such as Emmylou Harris, Ramblin Jack Elliot and Mavis Staples. July can't come fast enough.
The Decemberists
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris
Elvis Costello (acoustic)
Gillian Welch
Gogol Bordello (acoustic)
Earl Scruggs
Amos Lee
Ramblin Jack Elliot
M. Ward
Wanda Jackson
Tegan and Sara
The Felice Brothers
Carolina Chocolate Drops
The Civil Wars
Freelance Whales
The Cave Singers
Devil makes Three
Pokey Lafarge & The South City Three
The Secret Sisters
Trampled By Turtles
Song Circle W/ John Gorka, Ellis Paul, Dar Williams & Liz Queler
Mountain Man
What Cheer? Brigade
The Seeger
Clogging All Stars
The Wailin' Jenny's
River City Extension
Typhoon
The Ebony Hillbillies
Brown Bird
PS22 Chorus
Last night's Newport Folk Festival lineup announcement party was a blast! The full lineup was revealed on cue cards in an homage to Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video. Steve at Kitchen Sessions filmed the event and (on a tight deadline) edited together the following Newport Folk Festival Lineup Announcement video - check it out...
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