15 Best Things We Saw at Newport Folk Festival 2014
Mavis Staples’ birthday celebration, Jeff Tweedy’s family affair and other highlights from a weekend by the shore


Tracy Allison
55 years after its founding – and five years after its founder almost sold it off – the world's most storied folk festival returned to Rhode Island, filling the small beach town of Newport with many of the best musicians in the country. Here are the 15 best things we heard, saw and ate over the event's three days. By Jonathan Bernstein and Cady Drell