Elvis plays Newport Folk Festival, July 24, 2016

[johnfoyle]

Mixtape Magazine (@magazinemixtape)
.@ElvisCostello was legendary at @Newportfolkfest. Check out @CHRlSTOPHERHALL's photos https://t.co/Qt51Fd1kN1
(https://twitter.com/magazinemixt…/statu ... 7030643712…)

[johnfoyle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpzuPxfGduo


Glen Hansard "The Old Triangle" NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL 2016
With Elvis Costello, Jocie Adams, Anthony Mulcahy and Curtis Fowkes.





















Intriguing f/book posting by Elvis Costello -

Thanks to everyone on and off the stage at Newport Folk Festival; Rebecca and Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Taylor Goldsmith and the guys from The Middle Brother, Conor O'Brien of The Villagers and Curtis Fowlkes

Thanks to Glen Hansard for the loan of the boxing gloves, they said what I felt but could not express.

[johnfoyle]

Rehearsal photo by Patrick Glennon @PTGphotos



Glen Hansard , Conor O'Brien ( The Villagers) & Elvis.

[docinwestchester]

Elvis leaving by boat:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIRRBiehlIT/

[johnfoyle]

http://www.rollingstone.com/country/pic ... lo-w430686

Since its inception in 1959, the Newport Folk Festival has become that rarest of music events: an undeniable piece of American history. To capture the festival's timeless quality, Nashville photographer Giles Clement asked some of Newport's headliners, from Kris Kristofferson to Elvis Costello, to sit for clear-glass ambrotypes — a mid-19th century photography technique similar to tintypes. The results are stunning, depicting country, folk and rock artists in rich sepia tones reflective of their personalities and music.

http://www.gilesclement.com/


https://twitter.com/gilesclement/status ... 3599748096

[johnfoyle]

Glen Hansard tweets another angle - https://twitter.com/Glen_Hansard/status ... 5376303104

[johnfoyle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdH8JCak_yk

"Lowly Deserter" - Glen Hansard with Curtis Fowlkes and Elvis Costello at NFF

[johnfoyle]

I was reminded of this , 'Elvis Costello by Adam Birtwistle'
tempera and gouache on paper, 1996

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/searc ... =art&rNo=0

[johnfoyle]

Uncredited photo just used on Elvis's Twitter account

[johnfoyle]

Photos by Neil Swanson , via Larkin Poe/Facebook

[johnfoyle]

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/07/n ... to-best/6/



Ben Kaye -


The last time Elvis Costello played Newport billed as a solo performer in 2011, his voice was shot and he ended up bringing The Attractions (hmm?....JF) to mask it. This time through, his voice sounded damn magnificent, but he still brought along support to turn in a stellar set. Larkin Poe were surprisingly good foils for the iconic guitarist, bookending him with superb voices and instrumentals. Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s dirge-y version of “Side by Side” was one of the more unique songs of the festival, and as always, they provided a great backing band. So did Dawes on classics like “Every Day I Write the Book” and “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love and Understanding”, even if Costello kept mistakenly referring to them as “The Middle Brother”. (Yes, technically Dawes is the Middle Brother band, but still.) He re-teamed with Glen Hansard plus Preservation Hall Jazz Band for closer “The Scarlet Tide”, capping his set with another memorable moment in a string of them.

[johnfoyle]

https://twitter.com/PTGphotos/status/757944179225989121

Patrick Glennon @PTGphotos
Favorite @Newportfolkfest moment...http://bit.ly/29WVlwB @Glen_Hansard @ElvisCostello @mulographyNYC @folksy308

[johnfoyle]

http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/co ... p?xid=1112

Jeffrey B. Remz -

(extract)

Elvis Costello was a busy man on Sunday, not only doing his own musically eclectic set, but also sitting in with Glen Hansard for a bit.

Costello offered old and new during his 65 minutes, going back to such songs as "Blame It On Cain" (a very fine and punchy at that) and "Every Day I Write the Book."

Costello was backed by a variety of acts, including sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell, aka Larkin Poe, on mandolin and lap steel, to provide more of a country/roots sound. Middle Brother, Hansard and especially Preservation Hall Jazz Band all enjoyed stints on stage with Costello.

Costello, who had a few words for Trump, also played the piano man for several songs on the grand piano. He went single mic with the closing "The Scarlet Tide" where he received help from a few more musicians and even his roadie taking stanzas.

This, of course, was Costello light in that he didn't put in a full set (for him), but he made the most of his time

[johnfoyle]

Photo by Eric Tsurumoto


https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/ ... hotos.html


By Geoffrey Himes

July 26, 2016

(extract)

Glen Hansard had started his song “Lowly Deserter,” when he stopped and asked someone to come from backstage and play tambourine. Out popped Elvis Costello with a circular rattle in hand. Three songs later Costello returned to sing two verses on the old Brendan Behan folk song about prison, “The Auld Triangle” (aka “The Banks of the Royal Canal”). In between, Hansard and his unusual accompanist, jazz trombonist Curtis Fowlkes, played a version of Woody Guthrie’s “Vigilante Man” that seamlessly incorporated a certain presidential candidate into its tale of reactionary thuggery.

Costello began his own set as a trio: himself on acoustic guitar with the folk-rock duo Larkin Poe backing him up on mandolin and electric dobro. After four songs like that, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band came marching out on stage, the clarinet trilling and the tuba bleating. Costello introduced “Sulphur to Sugarcane” as “a song for the campaign season” and went on to impersonate a loathsome lothario who leers, “I wouldn’t cheat you, honey. When can I see you again?” Still later Costello joined the Dawes spin-off group Middle Brother to do a rousing version of “Everyday I Write the Book.”

Amid all these entrances and exits, Costello sat down alone at the piano and previewed a song from his work-in-progress, a stage musical based on the 1957 movie A Face in the Crowd about an amoral show-biz star who becomes a right-wing populist. “In this song,” Costello said, “he makes an appeal to your worst instincts. Not that it should remind you of anyone you know.”

Or maybe it should. Perhaps the best way to respond to this summer of blood and bluster is to take the sharpened weapon of humor and place it in the hand of the social-justice tradition that has been a part of American folk music as long as there’s been a Newport Festival to celebrate it.

[johnfoyle]

Larkin Poe post to f/book


TGIF, folks... Laughing it up with Elvis Costello, Glen Hansard, and #conorobrien at Newport Folk Festival (photo: Josh Wool)

[blureu]

Oh yeah!! Thank You NPR.

http://www.npr.org/event/music/48784342 ... -folk-2016

[sweetest punch]

Wow, this sounds really great!

[docinwestchester]

Complete webcast audio with partial video:



What does the audience member shout at 58:05? Something about Liverpool? EC gives it a good laugh.

Also, that's Dawes (Taylor Goldsmith, Griffin Goldsmith, Wylie Gelber, Lee Pardini, Duane Betts), not Middle Brother, on stage. EC keeps calling them Middle Brother, which is not the same band. I'm a huge Dawes fan, so I want them to get their proper credit!

[And No Coffee Table]

What does the audience member shout at 58:05? Something about Liverpool? EC gives it a good laugh.

"In My Liverpool Home."

[johnfoyle]

http://www.wlrfm.com/shows/6-the-drive- ... tello.html

Terresane O'Reilly-


Ah, us Waterford folk just can't help attracting attention everywhere we go!

We're also a talented bunch, as Bonmahon man Anthony Mulcahy proved when he was invited on stage at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island to sing "The Auld Triangle" with Glen Hansard and Elvis Costello!

Anthony was in the crowd taking photos and singing along for Glen's whole set when his fellow Irish man stopped and said to the crowd "I have to ask this man right here to help me out on this one" Anthony then handed his camera to a complete stranger in the front row who shot this pretty cool video of Anthony helping to entertain a crowd of over 25,000 people.

Anthony is in a band called "Those Sensible Shoes" but says Glen recognized him from a gig he played with another band in NYC.

Brilliant stuff!

[johnfoyle]

https://twitter.com/Newportfolkfest/sta ... 0590943232

Sulphur to Sugarcane. @preshallband transcribing horn lines for sit in with @ElvisCostello. Photo: @brianlimaphoto

[johnfoyle]

Elvis Costello - Newport Folk Festival 2016

by Josh Wool

27 Jul 2016

http://joshwool.tumblr.com/post/1480531 ... al-2016-by


http://joshwool.tumblr.com/post/1481035 ... cca-lovell





Backstage - Newport Folk Festival

Rebecca Lovell, Elvis Costello, Glen Hansard, Conor O’Brien, and Megan Lovell

http://joshwool.tumblr.com/post/1479615 ... 16-by-josh

[johnfoyle]

http://www.indieminded.com/2016/09/elvi ... n-newport/