Photos of George Wein’s Folk Festival 50 (Newport Folk Festival)

Photo of Pete Seeger at George Wein’s Folk Festival 50 by Rich Gastwirt

Rich Gastwirt captured dozens of great photos at the recent George Wein’s Folk Festival 50 — better known as the Newport Folk Festival. To say it was an awesome experience for the lucky music fans who attended is probably going to be the understatement of 2009.

Photo Slideshow of Newport Folk Festival 2009

More Folk Festival 50 Coverage

Check out NPR for lots of photos and recorded audio of all the performances. Ryan’s Smashing Life tweeted a lot throughout the Festival and will have a photo album on their website soon.

Boston Music Blog Roundup #1

Boston is percolating with many awesome blogs dedicated to sharing their love of bands from Boston and beyond. This is the first of a new weekly Boston music blog roundup series. If you write for a Boston music blog and you’re not in our “Around Boston” list o’ sites (over on the right) — let us know where we can find you!

Tea Party Boston: The girls of Tea Party Boston have been sharing their love of Boston on their new blog since May. Read the interview with the always awesome Hallelujah The Hills.

Bradley’s Almanac: Brad Searles made it down to Chapel Hill, North Carolina area for XXMerge – the 5-day 20th anniversary celebrating Merge Records, July 22-26. Read his blog for the write-up about XX Merge happenings and view the photos at Flickr. Photo of M Ward and Zooey Deschanel at XXMerge by Brad Searles.

Ryan’s Smashing Life: RSL’s latest viral video spotlight is musician/actor/comedian Miles Fisher’s cover of “This Must Be The Place” by The Talking Heads. Ryan’s Smashing Life will be tweeting from Newport Folk Festival next week with reviews and photos, too.

Boston Band Crush: The gang of music lovers over at Boston Band Crush are hosting a rock and roll spectacle on August 29th called “One Night Band” — they have impressively assembled a huge group of Boston musicians who will divide into teams and create a band that day and then later perform at The Middle East Downstairs. The show benefits Zumix, a youth music organization located in East Boston. Read Boston Band Crush’s interviews with musicians who are participating in One Night Band.

Melophobe: For those of us with a short attention span, Melophobe’s 50-word music reviews are a must-read.