Newport Folk Festival: Quick Facts

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Fleet Foxes perform on an outdoor stage at the Newport Folk Festival in 2017, with band members playing instruments and singing before a crowd, and a large Newport Folk banner in the background.

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Doc Watson

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Odetta

American folk singer

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