
Though it isn’t even officially fall yet, George Wein, Chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc., has confirmed the 2012 dates for his two Rhode Island summer festivals. The Newport Folk Festival will be held July 28 – 29 while the Newport Jazz Festival is set for August 3 – 5. Additional information will be announced in the coming months. “Following a sold-out 2011 Folk Festival and a very successful Jazz Festival, we want to make sure that music fans throughout the area and around the world have the 2012 dates on their calendars early,” Wein said in a statement, who has produced the jazz and folk festivals since their inceptions in 1954 and 1959, respectively. Both festival’s lineups will be confirmed in the coming months.
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