Friday, Aug 3, 2001
Gillian Welch
Also on the bill: Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison , Mark Olson & Victoria Williams
- Date
- Friday, Aug 3, 2001
- Show time
- 8:00 PM
- Venue
- Newport Folk Festival
- City
- Newport, RI
- Seating
- GA
- Face value
- $28.00
- Promoter
- Newport Creamery Presents
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
Stub is signed by Gillian Welch in black marker. Rain or shine. Also on the bill, recovered from setlist.fm's record of who played this room that night. setlist.fm stores no running order, so the slot each act played is unknown.
The moment
Time (The Revelator) had come out three days before this set — the spare, apocalyptic masterpiece that became the consensus great American folk album of its decade — and Gillian Welch was simultaneously riding the O Brother, Where Art Thou? wave that made old-time music a platinum phenomenon that year. Newport, the most storied stage in folk, three days into the record of her life. She signed the stub in black marker; the archive keeps the ink.
From the time
- Time (The Revelator)
“Released July 31, 2001 — three days before this Newport set — and canonized ever since.”
The stub
