The Newport Folk Festival has usually performed host to jaw-dropping shock performances, none greater than Joni Mitchell’s first correct live performance in additional than 20 years in 2022. The custom continued there yesterday (July 26), as Beck performed an unannounced afternoon full-band set on the Quad Stage with a set checklist paying tribute to the occasion’s musical roots.
Having not too long ago begun a tour backed by an enormous orchestra, Beck was very a lot alone on stage yesterday and opened, appropriately, with a canopy of “Maggie’s Farm” by Bob Dylan, whose determination to “go electrical” at Newport in 1965 stays probably the most vital moments in rock historical past. From there, he carried out materials by roots legends akin to Fred Neil (“The Different Aspect of This Life”), Jimmie Rodgers (“Ready for a Prepare”) and Blind Willie Johnson (“God Strikes on the Water”) in addition to the traditionals “John Hardy” and “Stag’ Lee.”
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With these out of his system, Beck wrapped the 10-song efficiency together with his personal “The Golden Age,” “Misplaced Trigger,” “One Foot within the Grave” and “Loser.” The artist’s symphonic exhibits proceed tonight at Wolf Entice in Vienna, Va.
In different Newport Folk Festival information, Hozier welcomed Mavis Staples, Joan Baez, Allison Russell, Nathaniel Rateliff and the members of the Lumineers for a canopy of the Band’s “The Weight” throughout his set. A lot of these musicians then remained on the stage for a set-closing rendition of Baez’s “We Shall Overcome.”
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