Newport Folk Festival 2026 @ Newport Folk Festival

Flytjendur

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  Lizzy McAlpine
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  Hayley Williams

  www.hayleywilliams.net

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  Dawes

  A group of road warriors who’ve carved out their blend of amplified folk-rock, the music is nuanced and collaborative, with no single instrument dominating the track list.

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  Gillian Welch

  www.gillianwelch.com

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  Amble

  Amble are Robbie Cunningham, Oisin McCaffrey and Ross Mc Nerney, a 3-piece ensemble of songwriters hailing from the Midlands and West of Ireland.

  If Amble’s debut EP, 2023’s “Amble (Live)”, introduced a new, musing, trad-tinged trio of songwriters to the Irish music scene, 2024’s highly distinctive “Of Land and Sea” finds the group expanding their sound to an ever-more global audience.

  The unique perspective of three individual songwriters creates a peerless body of work - built on the now familiar, ruminative observations on the world and more fitting to the Amble journey - the stories unfolding each day within it.

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  David Rawlings

  daverawlingsmachine.com

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  This Is Lorelei

  A long running songwriting outlet for New York-based Nate Amos, known for his work as one half of the critically acclaimed duo Water From Your Eyes and the duo My Idea, which he leads with Lily Konigsberg, This Is Lorelei began in 2015 while Amos lived in Chicago. He cut his teeth producing hundreds of records for collaborators in the DIY scene there, steadily amassing a vast catalog of Lorelei EP’s and albums along the way, all produced, performed, and engineered by Amos. While originally a home for Amos’ most experimental compositions, the project has evolved to seamlessly thread a needle through indie, electronica, country, and more, operating in an almost diaristic manner. Amos grew up singing harmony and performing in his father Bob Amos’ bluegrass band, developing sensibilities that come to the foreground in his work under the Lorelei moniker. Some of his earliest memories are of songwriting, picking up a guitar in the 5th grade, and as he remembers “I was always trying to start a band but wasn’t around anyone who was interested in doing more than coming up with a name and making an album cover until high school.”
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  Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

  Gillian Welch's musical style combines elements of bluegrass, neotraditional country, americana, old time string band music and folk into a rustic style that she dubs "American Primitive". Her music is often described as haunting or soothing.
  
  Welch was born in Manhattan and was adopted when she was three days old. She moved to Los Angeles at the age of four. By the age of seven, she had learned to play the guitar. Studying at the University of California, Santa Cruz Welch discovered bluegrass music through the "mountain soul" stylings of The Stanley Brothers. After a short stint in a local band, Welch moved to Boston and studied at the Berklee College of Music.
  
  In Boston, Welch met and began dating David Rawlings, who would become her longtime musical partner. In 1992, they moved to Nashville and began building a career. In Nashville, she met T-Bone Burnett, producer to such artists as Los Lobos, Sam Phillips, Counting Crows, and Elvis Costello. In 1996, Welch released her first album, Revival, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1997. Since then, she has recorded other albums and collaborated on the songs "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby" and "I'll Fly Away" on the soundtrack of the Coen Brothers hit O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
  
  Welch has also collaborated with good friend and singer/songwriter Ryan Adams on the albums Heartbreaker, Gold, and Demolition. She and Rawlings toured with Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, and Buddy Miller in 2004 as The Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue. Welch and Rawlings have collaborated with Old Crow Medicine Show and appear in their video of their song "Wagon Wheel".
  
  It's also of note that Welch covered the Radiohead track "Black Star" with her own distinctive sound in at least one live set. A recording of this cover has not been released on any album, but is widely available online.
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  Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band
• David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
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  Brittany Davis

  Fresh off their recent NPR Tiny Desk, Brittany Davis is a gifted multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and engineer from Seattle, WA. Brittany grew up in Kansas City and played piano/organ in church, then moved to Seattle a decade ago where their exceptional songwriting began, capturing the attention of Stone Gossard and his Seattle-based record label Loosegroove Records. Brittany is blind and describes themself as a vessel of sound and experiences music in spirit and colors. Everything about Brittany represents music and everything is an instrument to them. Brittany’s music has a wide range and credits Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, John Legend, H.E.R., Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Lizzo, Cardi B, & Beyonce as some of their main artist influences. In conjunction with an aspiring solo career, Brittany is also a core member of Rock band Painted Shield, who released their debut album in November 2020 which now has over 3M streams & sold out of their initial LP pressing released on 2020's Record Store Day Black Friday. Brittany Davis's debut EP 'I Choose To Live' produced/engineered by Davis and Seattle legend Josh Evans is out now via Loosegroove Records.
• Brother Wallace