“I’ve come to realize that music can help us to clarify, to ascertain, and to assert our humanity while making genuine connections….We are all looking for the same things out of life and music has always been a tool we’ve used to explore it.” —Jon Batiste, 2019
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Newport Folk turns 60
a small collection of photos and articles about The Newport Folk Festival, original inspiration for this blog, which celebrated its 60th anniversary on july 26-28.
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review/article from The Arts Fuse
“This [festival community] surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.” —Jay Sweet, memorializing Pete Seeger
evidence shows studying music improves academic performance
“Often, resources for music education—including the hiring of trained, specialized music educators, and band and stringed instruments—are cut or not available in elementary and secondary schools so that they could focus on math, science and English,” said Gouzouasis. “The irony is that music education—multiple years of high-quality instrumental learning and playing in a band or orchestra or singing in a choir at an advanced level—can be the very thing that improves all-around academic achievement and an ideal way to have students learn more holistically in schools.”
quote from Olafur Eliasson
“Art helps us identify with one another and expands our notion of we – from the local to the global.” — Olafur Eliasson, 2016
quote from Joni Mitchell
“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark.” —Joni Mitchell, 2006
interview with Jay Sweet
“The spirit of servitude that [Pete] Seeger brought to the world didn’t die when he passed away in 2014, and that fact is perhaps most evident at Newport Folk Festival, the now-iconic event that Seeger helped George Wein get off the ground in 1959. “The spirit of Pete, and of Pete’s egalitarian nature, is in every ounce of this festival’s DNA,” says Jay Sweet, executive producer of Newport Festivals.” —Dacey Orr Sivewright in The Bluegrass Situation, 5/22/2019
quote from Patti Smith
“We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it’s opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There’s so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.” — Patti Smith, 2015
quote from Arlo Guthrie
“Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows – conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.” –Arlo Guthrie, 1991
quote from Jesse Colin Young
“I feel like my country needs me to speak up. Every voice that speaks for love should come out and speak.” —Jesse Colin Young in No Depression, 3/29/2019
study: music in relation to Alzheimer’s and dementia
“The part of your brain responsible for ASMR catalogs music, and appears to be a stronghold against Alzheimer’s and dementia.”