We put a lot of money and good back out in the world with everything we do. We actually are a proactive non-profit where we give back to, I think last year was over, something like 100 different non-profit organizations that range from music education to musicians relief, to teaching music and people who are incarcerated for low level crime. And a lot of that has to do with all the work we do at the foundation level, because we're a true non-profit and we're not a nonprofit that's a non-profit organization just trying to stay alive against the duopoly that is Live Nation and AEG. Selling out Saturday and Sunday of jazz, this far in advance hasn't happened since I think '69 for jazz. On the folk side, we sell out all the tickets in under a minute without a lineup.
Sweet: We're a super unique organization though. So, yeah, it feels like it's been a while.īaltin: What are the biggest changes you have seen in the last few years? And then I added the head of the foundation as well, the non-profit that runs the two festivals. I came up as the producer of folk and then became the executive producer of folk, and then I became the executive producer of both folk and jazz. Once I got past 10 years, it kind of just all started to blur. So yeah, 16, 17 years, it's all a blur at this point. So I'm bad at math because I don't know if that year actually counts, if you count the 2007. So you need one of those in the equation. It's if we have no money, so we have to have time because right, time equals money. Don't have that many out yet for 2024 Jazz. Yeah, we have at least a third of the offers out for Newport Folk for 2024. You can't stop really, to be honest with you. Yeah, I'm building 24 while I'm building 23. I'm focusing now just for a second on the jazz best, Big Freedia, Marcus Miller, talk to me a little bit about how you start to put together this line-up and when you do so. Jon Batiste, Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, so many great people. It's a worldwide thing, more than 50 percent drive, the other 50 percent are from beyond three and a half, four hours.īaltin: You have a great lineup this year. Steve Baltin: Do you typically get a lot of people from all over? I spoke with Newport festivals and foundation Executive Director Jay Sweet about the festival's history, the appearances of Mitchell and Paul Simon last year, putting together this year's lineup, the festivals' philanthropic ventures and more.
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