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The Portsmouth Tiverton Rotary Club hosts the 66th Annual Newport Motor Car Festival, the longest-running event of its kind in Rhode Island, at Portsmouth Abbey on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at ...
Newport Classical, previously known as Newport Music Festival, is an annual chamber music-oriented music festival and year-round classical music arts organization in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1969. The festival consists of dozens of concerts each year, held in a variety of historic sites around town.
The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. They hired George Wein to organize the first festival and bring jazz to Rhode Island. [1] [2]
Newport's Van Bueren family donated money to the private Preservation Society of Newport to restore the building in 1952, after years of neglect as a boarding house. [2] After the restoration, it was sold and once again operated as a private tavern and restaurant, [ 2 ] and it remains a popular drinking and dining location today.
Additionally, it was a thrill to be able to pop to the “ice room” and access the hotel’s complimentary dessert bar, open 24/7, which was fully stocked with ice cream sandwiches, Hoodsie cups ...
Christmas in Newport: Take a trip to the City by the Sea to feel like you're in a movie Outside, the 13-acre garden at the Breakers are wrapped in lights for the " Sparking Lights at the Breakers ...
The Newport Folk Festival is an annual American folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959 as a counterpart to the Newport Jazz Festival. The festival was founded by music promoter and Jazz Festival founder George Wein , music manager Albert Grossman , and folk singers Pete Seeger , Theodore Bikel , and Oscar Brand .
Described as a "concert space that still had the fun of bar", the cozy 300-seat space hosted many prominent bands in the late 70s into the early 80s. The reputation of Lupo's grew among musicians, although in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the club was better known as a bar than as a concert venue. [ 7 ]