TAS Review: Ten Newport Folk Festival Highlights

If you didn't make it to this past weekend's sold-out and sun-drenched Newport Folk Festival, you might have caught it broadcast live via The Alternate Side's sister station WFUV and NPR Music. TAS asked WFUV's acting assistant PD, weekend host and producer Sarah Wardrop if she'd keep track of her own top ten Newport Folk Festival highlights, which runs the gamut from the intoxicating Gogol Bordello to knockout newcomers David Wax Museum.

Pixies, Gorillaz, Klaxons, Costello Pull Out Of Israeli Gigs

Following a volatile and deadly May 30 incident in which Israeli soldiers raided a flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza, an array of bands and artists, like the Pixies, Elvis Costello and Gorillaz, have cancelled their involvement in Tel Aviv's PicNic Festival and other concert appearances.

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