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Ryan Adams Live Webcast Today

By WUNC Updates • Jul 21, 2014

This audio concert was streamed on Friday, July 25, 2014.

Can't be at this year's Newport Folk Festival? We'll bring some of the festival home to you with a live in-concert audio webcast from Ryan Adams.

Adams is from North Carolina. He'll be playing the festival, which is known for stretching the definition of "folk music." Nearly a half century ago on its stage Bob Dylan notoriously plugged in and folk-rocked out.

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Marisa Anderson: Tiny Desk Concert

By editor • Jul 19, 2014

Marisa Anderson knows where American guitar music has been and where it is now, and probably possesses an inkling of where it can go. She's studied the history and musical nuance of blues, country and folk music through and through, and ingests it all in a style that's as raw as it true. But mostly, Anderson just wants to kick up some dirt — which isn't easy here, given that the NPR Music offices are relatively clean. (Mind the towering stacks of CDs, though. They could topple over at any time.)

'Live In The Present': Charlie Haden Remembered

By editor • Jul 18, 2014

At 2014's Newport Folk Festival, 5 Discoveries To Stretch Folk's Limits

By Stephen Thompson • Jul 18, 2014

From its legendary beachfront locale to its celebrations of folk music's past, the Newport Folk Festival draws on more than half a century of celebrated traditions. But it's also an event in which folk's boundaries are tested: This is, after all, where Bob Dylan famously plugged in an electric guitar 49 years ago, in the process enraging the purists in the crowd.

NPR Music Returns For 2014's Newport Folk Festival

By Stephen Thompson • Jul 18, 2014

The Newport Folk Festival has been around for more than half a century now — this is its 55th year, to be exact — and the event now routinely sells out months before its lineup is even announced. And why shouldn't it?

The Thistle & Shamrock: Tales Of The Riverbank

By editor • May 21, 2014

Rivers run through many of our well-loved and best-known landscapes. Their quiet banks and neglected docksides are now often the focus of rural rediscovery and urban regeneration. Music, old and new, celebrates our rivers as sources of life and of timeless inspirations to song-makers.

This program previously ran May 2014.

The Thistle & Shamrock: Season Of Light

By editor • May 7, 2014

Marked in early May, Beltane is one of four quarter-day festivals in the old year. Join our celebration of the natural elements — Air, Earth, Water and Fire — in a Beltane-themed hour of music.

The Thistle And Shamrock: Fiddle Styles

By editor • Oct 16, 2013

Sample a variety of fiddle flavors from the wide world of Celtic music.

The Thistle And Shamrock: Gaelic Voices

By editor • Oct 9, 2013

Explore the branches of contemporary song sprouting from the roots of ancient vocal traditions.

The Thistle And Shamrock: Celtic Piano

By editor • Jan 23, 2013

In the right hands, the driving rhythms of fiddle music and the ornamentations of Celtic pipes and harp all dance freely on piano keys. Join us for a trip to the heart of Celtic piano music, featuring artists like Antoni O'Breskey and Micháel Ó Súilleabháin.

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