Newport Festivals Foundation

Newport Festivals Foundation www.newportfestivalsfoundation.org

The Newport Festivals Foundation fosters the legacy and expands the impact of its Festivals through educational initiatives that celebrate innovation while preserving the deep traditions inherent in Jazz and Folk music.

It’s official! The Newport Festivals license plates are now out in the wild. Thank you to everyone who preordered a plat...
06/07/2026

It’s official! The Newport Festivals license plates are now out in the wild. Thank you to everyone who preordered a plate and came out to yesterday to pick them up.

Special shoutout to Ragged Island for hosting us. And to for sponsoring the legislation to make the plates. $20 from each plate will go towards our free music lessons.

Last pic is for all the history nerds. Our plate next to the first iteration of Rhode Island plates (from 1912) most of which were used for horse-drawn carts.

Click the link in our bio to order your own NFF plate!

Excited to announce Skylar Tang as our special guest for the upcoming Newport Jazz Jam session on June10th! Skylar is a ...
06/06/2026

Excited to announce Skylar Tang as our special guest for the upcoming Newport Jazz Jam session on June10th! Skylar is a brilliant up and coming trumpet player hailing from San Francisco. Now based in New York City, she performs, writes and leads her own projects. She was featured on Joshua Redman’s recent album, Words Fall Short.

Join us at the Blue Room in Cranston from 7pm-10pm. No cover charge. All musicians are welcome.

Thank you to PMJazz for making this artist series possible.

05/22/2026

Come take a look into our Newport Jazz Camp where aspiring young jazz musicians get the opportunity to network, meet and learn from professional and famous jazz artists, and perform at the iconic Newport Jazz Festival.  

➡️ Link in bio

Come play some of your favorite jazz standards with us at the jazz jam session! The house band will play an assortment o...
05/22/2026

Come play some of your favorite jazz standards with us at the jazz jam session! The house band will play an assortment of jazz repertoire ranging from Joe Henderson to Herbie Hancock. No cover.

We teamed up with to donate over $5,000 worth of guitars to a high school in his hometown of Anchorage, Alaska. Nick wa...
05/15/2026

We teamed up with to donate over $5,000 worth of guitars to a high school in his hometown of Anchorage, Alaska. Nick was kind enough to take some time off his busy tour to visit the school, speak with the students about music and even play a few songs.

This was made possible through our ArtistGives program which allows artists on the lineup to support school music education programs in America.

Photographs by Tom Turner

The great, Walter Smith III came through for our Newport Jazz Jam last night. Unforgettable evening for the sold out cro...
05/14/2026

The great, Walter Smith III came through for our Newport Jazz Jam last night. Unforgettable evening for the sold out crowd and 28 musicians who jammed.

Keep an eye out for more special guest artists at our Jams. Thank you PMJazz who provided a grant to make this possible.

An immense honor to host the legendary, Randy Brecker at our Jam Session on Wednesday. Randy also spent the day down at ...
04/24/2026

An immense honor to host the legendary, Randy Brecker at our Jam Session on Wednesday. Randy also spent the day down at URI passing on his wisdom to their music students.

Keep an eye out for more guest artists at our Jams. Walter Smith III will be joining us in May. Thanks to PMJazz for making this program possible.

04/20/2026

For the last few months, our Music Lab students have had the incredible opportunity to record at Power Station New England, a professional recording studio in Connecticut. They’re creating their very own EP of original songs, which will be released this summer, leading up to their performance on stage at the Newport Folk Festival.

A huge thank you to Power Station New England for donating their time and staff to make this happen.

Excited to announce two special guests for our upcoming Newport Jazz Jam sessions!4/22 - Randy Brecker 5/13 - Walter Whi...
04/15/2026

Excited to announce two special guests for our upcoming Newport Jazz Jam sessions!

4/22 - Randy Brecker
5/13 - Walter White III

Join us at the Blue Room in Cranston from 7pm-10pm. No cover charge. All musicians welcome.

Thank you to PMJazz for making this artist series possible.

Last Saturday we had the privilege of hosting our first ever Music Education Summit. We invited music educators from acr...
04/08/2026

Last Saturday we had the privilege of hosting our first ever Music Education Summit. We invited music educators from across Rhode Island to join us for an honest conversation about the state of music education. We learned first hand about the challenges educators are facing and what we as a nonprofit can do to help. We believe this is a crucial first step in helping to turn Rhode Island into a nationwide leader in arts education.

Thank you to all the music educators who joined us and for all the amazing work you do changing lives through music.

Special shout out to our panelists:
chilton



Elizabeth Richards-Hegnauer

And thank you to for hosting us!

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