This pressure coupled with his various conversations with those in the folk community made it clear to Wein that an afternoon program at the Jazz Festival would not suffice and that there was demand for a full Folk festival.Īware of his own limitations in the folk scene, Wein asked Albert Grossman, then Odetta's manager, to join him in planning and producing the festival. Some in the jazz community accused Wein of crass commercialism in booking these groups because they deviated from, and had a larger following than, most jazz musicians of the time. Wein asked Odetta, Pete Seeger, and the Weavers to perform on the afternoon in addition to the Kingston Trio. Wein envisioned the program to be 'similar in scope and tone to the highly successful blues and gospel shows' that had taken place at the Jazz Festival in previous years. The afternoon performances consistently sold out and Wein began to consider the possibility of a 'folk afternoon embedded within the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival'. In 1958, Wein became aware of the growing Folk Revival movement and began inviting folk artists such as Odetta to perform on Sunday afternoons at Storyville. The Newport Folk Festival was started in 1959 by George Wein, founder of the already-well-established Newport Jazz Festival, and owner of Storyville, a jazz club located in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1985, its founder revived it in Newport, where it has been held at Fort Adams State Park ever since. The festival was held annually from 1959 to 1969, except in 19. It was one of the first modern music festivals in America, and remains a focal point in the expanding genre of folk music.

Newport Folk Festival is an annual American folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959 as a counterpart to the Newport Jazz Festival.

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