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The Music Savage Show | Newport Folk Festival 2022

The Music Savage Show · Newport Folk Festival 2022 Join me and celebrate our return to the Fort for a fun filled weekend in song! The new show highlights a whole bunch of amazing bands & musicians who will be playing incredible sets over the course of three glorious days. It is time my friends for Newport Folk Festival 2022! Playlist: Everyone I’ve Never Met – Leith RossGarden Song – The Dead TonguesDon’t Ask – John CraigiePygmalion – Cassandra JenkinsFeel The Pain – Dinosaur Jr. Everybody Wants to Love You – Japanese BreakfastNameless, Faceless – Courtney BarnettRight Love – Hannah GeorgasTrace – SkullcrusherWorldender…

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The Music Savage Show | 07.31.2020

The Music Savage Show · Be Present Be Open Be Kind Join me as I celebrate my favorite place in the whole world with a show dedicated to the bands/musicians who would have played live at Newport Folk Festival this weekend. We’re Stronger When We Sing Together. -Pete Seeger Playlist: Maggie’s Farm (Live @ Newport) – Bob DylanVanity Trip – The Ballroom ThievesGeorgia – Brittany HowardIt Ain’t Easy – Delta SpiritCocaine Jesus – Rainbow Kitten Surprise Just Another Reason – Watkins Family HourAge of a Man – Sunny WarGrand Restoration – Natalie HembyGood Luck Kid – JosephDrown – Son Volt…

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The Music Savage Show | 08.02.2019

The new show takes a loving look back on my favorite time of the year… The Newport Folk Festival! I open with a set of songs from a few of the incredible collaborative groups that graced the stages in 2019, play you some tunes from musicians and bands that were a few of the many extraordinary highlights of the weekend, showcase a handful of musicians/bands I would love to see return to the fort, and last but not least highlight the artists I hope make their debut in 2020. Let’s have some folkin’ fun! Playlist: Redesigning Women – The HighwomenBlack…

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Newport Folk Festival 2019 | It Folkin’ Begins

As the last powerful notes of the final Newport 2018 set, “A Change is Gonna Come,” flowed over the emotional crowd and through the breeze, drifting across the ocean to spread a message of hope, we all began the internal countdown. We’ve been eagerly anticipating what is about to happen to our senses for approximately eight thousand six hundred and eighty eight hours. We are excited! Speaking of said excitement the line-up for 2019 is out of this world bonkers. We get incredible up and coming bands/musicians like Black Belt Eagle Scout and Yola making their festival debuts. We have…

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The Music Savage Show | 07.19.2019

Today I celebrate Newport Folk Festival with an entire show dedicated to one of my most favorite weekends. As this year is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 team landing on the moon (and cutting James Taylor’s performance short on July 20th, 1969) I kick things off with a set celebrating the ’69 festival. I also highlight the new Song of the Week “Everyone’s Gone To The Moon” from Robert Ellis, play you some songs from a few favorite moments at the fort, let you in on some amazing tracks from our #Hottakes post, and so much folkin’ more!…

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The Music Savage Show | Newport Folk Festival 2018 Recap

The Music Savage show w/ DJ Ryan Doyon on WMFO! Today’s show takes a fond look back my favorite time of the year… Newport Folk Festival! I open with a tribute to my best friends and festival housemates on Spring St, play you some songs from musicians and bands that were a few of the many, many highlights of the weekend, give you the new Song of the Week, “Staring Out The Window,” from Friday’s NFF performer Erika Wennerstrom, and let you take a sneak peek at our new Hot Takes post Enjoy! Playlist: Spring Street Set You Make My…

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The Music Savage Show | Newport Folk Festival 2018 Special

The Music Savage show w/ DJ Ryan Doyon on WMFO! Today’s show celebrates my favorite time of the year… Newport Folk Festival! Together with my fellow WMFO DJ Gabi we talk about how much we love this festival and play tons of NFF musicians from past to present. You also get a new Song of the Week, “Hard Way,” from Glorietta … who are making their festival debut in 2018. Enjoy! Playlist: Maggie’s Farm – Bob Dylan (Live at Newport Folk Festival 1965) Casey Jones – Mississippi John Hurt (Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963) Big River – Johnny Cash…

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Song of the Week | Glorietta – Hard Way

The latest WFMO X Music Savage Show “Song of the Week” spotlight is focused on the excellent new single, “Hard Way,” from the brand new supergroup Glorietta. The six-piece band have just released a couple of singles from their upcoming, self-tilted debut album due out August 24th. Glorietta are Matthew Logan Vasquez (Middle Brother, Delta Spirit), Noah Gundersen (The Courage), Kelsey Wilson (Wild Child), David Ramirez, Adrian Quesada (Brownout, Black Pumas), and Jason Blum. The band came to life last year when Vasquez traveled to my old hometown of Austin, Texas to catch a show by singer-songwriter David Ramirez. The…

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Photos + Review | Newport Folk Presents: Colter Wall + Jade Bird @ The Sinclair

There’s a certain somber delight that comes with attending a performance by Colter Wall. While the subject of the songs you’re singing along to may range from being harassed by police, to infidelity and revenge homicide, to driving your motorcycle off a mountainside, there’s a comforting feeling that even in your loneliest hour, you’re never alone and there’s always another day ahead of you. Wall, an early-twenties Canadian Cowboy whose moody, husky baritone and classic songcraft have drawn the attention of music fans from Natuashish to Nashville, rolled into Cambridge this past Sunday to croon in front of a sold-out…

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