MUSIC

Mighty Poplar is ripe for pickin’ at Newport Folk Festival

The bluegrass supergroup will lean into tradition Sunday on the Harbor stage. 4:01 p.m.

So many notables at Newport Folk Festival this year. Here’s a taste.

With around 90 performances across five stages at the Newport Folk Festival this weekend, attendees will have to make some tough choices about what they see. 2:37 p.m.

In new poetry book, Joan Baez introduces us to some of her ‘alters’

The singer-songwriter addresses her childhood trauma and dissociative identity disorder diagnosis in her new book, which she'll read from at the Newport Folk Festival on Saturday. We talked ahead of time. 11:27 a.m.

Conan O’Brien says playing the Newport Folk Festival is a ‘dream gig’

The former late-night host will be playing at the folk festival on July 28. 6:00 a.m.

PODCAST

FringePVD brings ‘all things weird and wonderful’ to R.I.

On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Wilbury Theatre Group founder Josh Short talks about the 300 artists performing dance, theater, music, mixed media, and “a mashup of all of those great things,” at Providence's Fringe Festival. 6:00 a.m.

RI EDUCATION

Newport Festivals Foundation and The Met School are training the next generation of musicians in Newport, R.I.

A new internship-style program, Newport Festivals Music Lab, offers hands-on learning with an unforgettable end-of-year experience: playing at the Newport Folk Festival 6:00 a.m.

RI ARTS

John Cafferty brings his rocking R.I. roots — and his Beaver Brown band — back to where it all began

“Fifty-one years later, to still have a guitar in front of me, and a great rock and roll band standing beside me — it’s still a dream in the making,” says Cafferty, who grew up in North Providence. 6:00 a.m.