Because of its size and success the Festival has been able to bring to Newport folk music of every style, and on the front porch of an old rooming house there will be a traditional fiddler from Kentucky warming up his bowing arm, in an ornate Victorian hotel lobby a Mississippi blues man will be putting a new string on his guitar, under a tree in one of the town's small parks a ballad singer from Arkansas will be giving the words of one of her songs to a beginning singer. Even in 1965, when the Festival moved to its new grounds just outside of town, there were still the slow moving crowds along the main streets and the same young city musicians playing and singing in every style from Bluegrass to Rhythm and Blues along the beaches and sidewalks. And at Newport, with its wide range of music, it's easy to hear the root sources for the professional folk singers who also play an important part in bringing crowds to the evening concerts and workshops. Most of these singers, no matter how much they've changed or interpreted the music, are still close to the folk traditions from which their own personal style has sprung.
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