Word: newporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pete Seeger remarking on a folk music festival he once attended in Ireland, pointed out that "there are no large groups like this one [the Sunday night concert at Newport], but wherever there is a fiddler or a balled singer the people gather, and that's their festival." And although most of what one hears of Newport is record crowds and jammed facilities, the Festival is more than a series of concerts; it, too, has this sense of participation that Seeger noted in Ireland. The people who come to Newport come to listen, but they also come to play...
...folk music, provide anyone who is interested with a chance to listen to their favorite people play and explain their individual styles and techniques. The workshops are of every conceivable kind--blues, topical songs, the autoharp, you name it. And for many, they provide the main attraction of Newport...
...foredeck of Constellation racing off Newport, R.I., last week, several crewmen had an urgent command magic-markered on their right knees: "Beat the Bird." That was about the size of it. As the second series of America's Cup trials neared an end, anyone who hoped to defend the cup for the U.S. against Britain this September had to beat American Eagle and her brilliant skipper, Bill Cox. In six official races in the current series, the big new twelve-meter has defeated Constellation once, Nefertiti once, Columbia twice, Easterner twice. Her overall record in the first two series...
...used to taking your jazz in a club, Newport is rather a shock. Instead of the usual hot, smokey atmosphere, and the sweating, swinging musicians alternately caressing and blasting your ears, you sit anonymously at a distance in a cool summer breeze, listening to a series of musicians each of whom has about 45 minutes to get on stage, get warmed up, establish his mood, and then get off again. It's like a parade, but somehow nearly every artist can establish himself and make himself felt...
...lead with a furlong-and-a-half to go. The $149,730 victory brought Santa's winnings to $376,423 this year-and meant a present of $140,000 to each of 24 lucky ticket holders in the worldwide Irish Sweepstakes lottery. >Milton Ernstof's Burgoo: the Newport-Bermuda yacht race, over 142 of the world's fastest racing yachts-biggest field in the event's 58-year history. A Class E, 38-ft. fiber-glass yawl, one of the smallest boats in the race, Burgoo proved to be just right for the light, fluffy breezes...