This year marked the 65th anniversary of the Rhode Island festival, which brought performances from old faces and new, including Conan O'Brien. WBUR's Maddie Browning reviewed the three-day event.
“I’m here to prove I can ruin any genre,” said Conan O’Brien from the Fort Stage with an electric guitar strapped across his chest. The television host and comedian from Brookline closed out the 2024on an overcast, rainy Sunday night, July 28, at Fort Adams State Park. It was a strange, but comforting end to a long weekend of healing music.
The Rhode Island locale boasts views of Newport Harbor and the East Passage of Narragansett Bay — sounds pretty ideal, right? Well, my experience didn’t begin that way. I left Tiverton on Friday at 9 a.m. and didn’t cross the threshold into the festival — a mere 12 miles away — until nearly noon. The last mile and a half to the grounds were jam-packed with cars and bikes as we were all led through winding roads to the makeshift, grass-field parking lots.
Marten played acoustic guitar, with Katie Martucci on bass and backup vocals and Andrew Maguire on percussion. She lightly swayed to the music, engaged in intoxicating vocal runs and a soft vibrato on “God Above.” Marten also performed her new song “Swing.” “It’s a very silly song with nonsense lyrics, so you could sing along, and it still works,” she said as the audience laughed.
” with three-part harmonies that gave me chills. MUNA is clear about their political viewpoints on their platforms, stating “Free Palestine,” which was met with cheers and clapping, before ending the set with their flirty single “Silk Chiffon.”” on the Bike Stage, which is powered entirely by solar panels and audience members biking off to the side. She quipped that for her set, it should be called the “Dykes on Bikes Stage.
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