Good Morning! Today is Saturday, August 5. Today’s newsletter is 1,070 words, approximately a 5-minute read.
🎺 The 2023 Newport Jazz Festival kicked off on Friday, August 4, playing to a near-sellout crowd comprised of the youngest jazz festival audience in recent memory.
What brought the younger crowd to Fort Adams? A slew of contemporary artists who shatter the mold of traditional jazz, bringing fresh voices and new ideas to America’s original art form. Not that there wasn’t some room for traditionalists, but the theme Friday was innovation and experimentation.
⚾ Weather postponed Game Two of the NECBL Playoffs. The Newport Gulls will now take on the Danbury Westerners in Danbury at 6:30 pm tonight and will return home to Cardines Field for Game Three at 6:30 pm on Sunday.
👉 At 11 am today as part of the international Emancipation Day celebrations, the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society will host a ceremony to recognize and celebrate the thousands of persons of West African heritage who once lived, worked, worshiped, and died in Colonial Newport and who are represented by the hundreds of burial markers that remain in the “God’s Little Acre” section of the Newport Common Burying Ground. Read More
🎉 Skipper Charlie Enright and the 11th Hour Racing Team got a hometown heroes welcome at the Newport Jazz Festival on Friday. Jay Sweet, Executive Director of Newport Festivals Foundation, introduced the team to a near-sell-out crowd who gave the team a loud round of applause in celebration of their recent Ocean Race victory.
Later in the day, the team celebrated with a victory party on the lawn of the Great Friends Meeting House.
What’s Up Today
Weather
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Southwest wind 3 to 8 mph.
Tonight: Patchy fog between 1am and 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Marine Forecast
Today: Variable winds less than 5 kt becoming SSW 5 to 7 kt in the afternoon. Mostly sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tonight: Variable winds 5 kt or less. Patchy fog between 1am and 3am. Seas 1 ft or less.
Coastal Water Temperature: 71°F.
Sun, Moon, & Tide
Sunrise: 5:44 am | Sunset: 7:58 pm | 14 hours and 14 minutes of sun.
High tide at 11:28 am & 11:51 pm | Low tide at 4:42 am & 5:11 pm.
Moon: Waning Gibbous. 18.5 days, 85% lighting.
Things To Do
Newport Jazz Festival at Fort Adams State Park
9 am to 12 pm: Aquidneck Growers Market at 25 Enterprise Drive, Middletown
9 am: Middletown Football Car Wash at Knights Of Columbus
10 am to 5 pm: Open Studios at Jamestown Arts Center
12 pm to 5 pm: IYRS Maritime Library Summer Book Sale at IYRS
12 pm to 6 pm: Ca’ del Bosco Wine Garden at The Chanler at Cliff Walk
5 pm: Newport International Polo Series at Newport International Polo Grounds
5 pm to 7 pm: 39th Annual Members’ Show and Celebration ! at DeBlois Gallery
8 pm: Improv with the Bit Players at The Firehouse Theater
For more events and things to do, visit our events calendar.
Live Music & Entertainment
Blue Anchor Grill: Hurricane from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Busker’s Irish Pub: Brian Twohey at 9 pm
Clarke Cooke House: Live music at 10 pm
Dockside & Riptides: To be announced
Greenvale Vineyards: Live Jazz Music from 1 pm to 4 pm
Johnny’s at The Atlantic Resort: Phoenix Avenue from 6 pm to 9 pm
JPT Film & Event Center: The Miracle Club at 2 pm,
Landing: Timmy Smith from 1 pm to 4 pm, Jim Devlin from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm, Blockhead from 8 pm to 12 am
Midtown Oyster Bar: Live music at 9 pm
Newport Blues Cafe: Never In Vegas at 9 pm
Newport Harbor Island Resort: DJ Nook at The Firepits from 6 pm to 10 pm
O’Brien’s Pub: CGray the DJ at 10 pm
One Pelham East: MYSA from 8 pm to 11:30 pm
Shops At Long Wharf Mall: In Tandem from 1 pm to 5 pm
Speakeasy: Live music at 9 pm
Sunset Cove: The Girls from 6 pm to 9 pm
The Deck: To be announced
The Firehouse Theatre: Live improv comedy with The Bit Players at 8 pm
The Reef: Brian Scott from. 1 pm to 4 pm, Ruby Mac from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm, Steve Donavon Band from 8 pm to 11 pm
Top of Newport at Hotel Viking: Live music from 6 pm to 9 pm
Top of Pelham: Dueling Pianos at 7:30 pm
Local Government
No meetings are scheduled in Newport County.
See the agendas and a complete list of public meetings across Rhode Island here.
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