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Newport Folk Revival Radio starts Friday!

WITH 90.1 FM Different Radio | By Michael Black

Published July 28, 2020 at 9:42 AM EDT

There is no Newport Folk Festival this year, due to the worldwide pandemic. However, there will be a virtual festival on the radio! Starting Friday morning at 11AM, you will here live performances recorded through the decades at Newport, from Joni Mitchell to Courtney Barnett. A complete schedule will be posted each day so you can catch your favorites. Tune in to WITH all weekend long for Newport Folk Revival Radio!

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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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