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Newport Folk Festival in Concert for Labor Day

WXXI News | By Michael Black

Published August 31, 2017 at 4:38 PM EDT

Different Radio will air concert sets from this year's Newport Folk Festival from 9AM to Noon, and again 6PM to Midnight. Wilco, John Prine, Shovels & Rope, and Hurray for the Riff Raff are just some of the acts you can hear. It all starts Monday, Labor Day, at 9AM, only on Different Radio, WRUR 88.5 FM and WITH 90.1 FM.

Here is the lineup (times aproximate):

9:00 AM John Prine & Friends

10:10 AM Marlon William

10:46 AM Wilco

6:00 PM The Wild Reeds

6:43 PM Big Thief

7:31 PM Pinegrove

8:17 PM John Paul White

9:02 PM Shovels & Rope

10:00 PM Hurray For The Riff Raff

10:48 PM Drive By Truckers

11:36 PM Joseph

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Michael Black

I was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, and grew up mostly in and around the Rochester area. I got my radio start at WBKT at Brockport High school as a sophomore, and was its station manager in my senior year in high school. I had caught the radio & TV bug. While in high school, I started working for the local commercial station in town (WWBK/WJBT). While attending SUNY Brockport, I helped build WBSU-FM, and started as an intern for WXXI-TV. I started working for WXXI in the broadcast operations area, and eventually became an online television editor. In 1985, I took a position at WHYY in Philadelphia in their engineering department, working primarily as a video editor, but also provided audio support for TV productions and for some radio productions, including NPR's Fresh Air.

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