Brandi Carlile and Amanda Shires’ The Highwomen Added to 2019 Newport Folk Festival Lineup

May 8, 2019
Brandi Carlile and Amanda Shires’ The Highwomen Added to 2019 Newport Folk Festival Lineup

The Highwomen, a new project headed up by Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires and Maren Morris, are the latest addition to the Newport Folk Festival 2019 lineup.

Fellow singer-songwriter and Highwoman Natalie Hemby will round out the quartet for this year’s Newport Folk, the same lineup that mad its first public appearance at Loretta Lynn’s birthday concert in Nashville earlier this year (the group previously said that the band could have a rotating lineup). Announced in early March, the band’s debut album also features musical input from Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell, producer Dave Cobb, Carlile’s longtime collaborators Tim and Phil Hanseroth, and others.

“The whole idea started with Amanda Shires,” Carlile said during a conversation with Morris on Apple Music’s Beats 1. “We were hanging out and we got to know each other, became fast friends, fell in love, and she said we should start like a political movement. She was like, ‘Yeah. We can call it the Highwomen. And not high like high, but like exulted.’”

Watch fan-shot video of The Highwomen performing Kitty Wells’ “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” at Lynn’s celebration below.

Newport Folk Festival returns to Rhode Island’s Fort Adams State Park July 26–28. The gathering will also feature performances from Trey Anastasio, Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band, Warren Haynes, Jeff Tweedy, Sheryl Crow, Kacey Musgraves, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Lake Street Dive, Dawes & Friends, I’m With Her, Rayland Baxter, Todd Snider and more. All festival information can be found here.

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