As part of this festival coverage, NPR Music, WBGO and WFUV will also produce radio specials from the festivals, highlighting standout performances and interviews with musicians. The broadcast specials will air on NPR Member stations across the country. Throughout the festivals, NPR will also host a live web chat at www.NPR.org/music. NPR Music is a media partner for both festivals, and is teaming with Festival Network on its webcasts and broadcasts of the concerts. WFUV has a longstanding promotional relationship with the Newport Folk Festival, as has WBGO with the JVC Jazz Festival Newport.
NPR Music and WFUV will webcast more than 10 performances from the biggest names playing the Newport Folk Festival over two days: Saturday, August 2 from noon to 5:00PM (ET) and Sunday, August 3 from 11:30AM to 3:00PM (ET). WFUV will also broadcast live on 90.7FM from the festival on August 2, with performances by Jakob Dylan of the Wallflowers; Steve Earle and Alison Moorer; Jim James of My Morning Jacket; and She & Him, the musical pairing of M. Ward and actress Zooey Deschanel. NPR will also webcast concerts by Gillian Welch, Calexico, Cowboy Junkies and Brandy Carlile. The webcasts will be co-hosted by Bob Boilen, host and creator of the popular NPR Music show All Songs Considered, and WFUV host and music director Rita Houston. Updated artist lists and performance schedules are at: www.nprmusic.org/newportfolkfestival
The following weekend, August 9 and 10, NPR Music and WBGO team up to live webcast main stage acts from the JVC Jazz Festival Newport. WBGO will also broadcast live from 11:30AM to 2:00PM (ET) on both days. On the bill are legendary pianist Herbie Hancock; producer, performer and Jazz Festival founder George Wein; guitarist Howard Alden; along with rising jazz stars Esperanza Spalding and Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos. WBGO special projects producer Josh Jackson will host the Jazz Festival webcasts. Updated artist lists and performance schedules are at: www.nprmusic.org/jvcjazzfestnewport
NPR Music frequently live webcasts concerts from venues across the country as part of its continuing “Live in Concert" series, which has featured more than 100 live events to date. In March, NPR Music, WFUV and several other Member stations traveled to Austin, TX, to live webcast and broadcast 14 concerts from South by Southwest, among them R.E.M., My Morning Jacket, Vampire Weekend, Bon Iver and Yo La Tengo. Earlier this summer, NPR Music and WBGO launched the site's first concert series of live jazz webcasts, “Live at the Village Vanguard," which offers monthly shows from the legendary New York City venue. The NPR Music Concert Calendar lists all upcoming live webcasts, and calendar reminders for Google Mail or Outlook: www.NPR.org/concertcalendar
About NPR Music
NPR Music launched in November 2007 as a free, comprehensive music discovery destination, featuring content from NPR, WBGO, WFVU and 10 other NPR Member public radio stations, as well as original-to-NPR Music features such as live performances, studio sessions, interviews, reviews and blogs. Specific sections of the site are dedicated to rock/pop/folk, classical, jazz/blues, world and urban music. The site culls from NPR's and the stations' extensive music archives to present thousands of features; its popular Concert section offers hundreds of regional and national web concerts, with more than 15 new performances added each month. NPR Music also offers dozens of original public radio music podcasts.
About WBGO
WBGO is a full service, non-commercial public radio station that presents Jazz, Blues, R&B and has an award-winning News Department on air at 88.3FM, and online at wbgo.org. As a cultural arts organization, WBGO champions jazz through a host of events in the community; a focus on educating young people about this music through programs such as the annual Free Kids Jazz Concert Series, Jazzamatazz Magazine and in-schools education programs; and a commitment to producing jazz programming such as the weekly show JazzSet with DeeDee Bridgewater. WBGO has won the National Arts Club Gold Medal for promoting interest in Jazz, the Blues Foundation's “Keeping the Blues Alive" Award and twice won the Gavin Report's “Jazz Station of the Year" Award.
About WFUV
WFUV is a non-commercial, listener-supported public radio station, licensed to Fordham University for 60 years. A leader in contemporary music radio, WFUV offers an eclectic mix of rock, singer-songwriters, blues, world and other music, plus headlines from National Public Radio and award-winning local news and sports. The station has a full-time professional staff of 30, along with 70 Fordham student employees, and serves nearly 400,000 listeners each week in the New York area and thousands more worldwide on the web.
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