Carmel Holt

It's not often you find a band with three lead singers who each sound as impressive on their own as they do together.

A power trio of an entirely different kind, the Houston band led a journey through globally-influenced funk, jazz, surf and psych-rock — before creating a live, instrumental hip-hop mixtape.

The Nashville-by-way-of-Brooklyn band repeatedly took the Newport audience from joyful, foot-stomping singalongs, to a rapturous hush.

Slingshot is a project by NPR Music to highlight emerging artists. Bedouine was born in Aleppo, Syria, and has moved around a lot, but her music is rooted in the country folk rock of the 60s and 70s.

The irresistible groove of "Cream On Chrome" proves that with a propulsive beat, hooky guitars and a touch of synthesizer, instrumentals can be earworms, too.