{"id":62972,"date":"2026-04-21T17:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/thundercat-angine-de-poitrine-to-play-newport-jazz-festival-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:22:41","slug":"thundercat-angine-de-poitrine-to-play-newport-jazz-festival-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/thundercat-angine-de-poitrine-to-play-newport-jazz-festival-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Thundercat, Angine de Poitrine to Play Newport Jazz Festival 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Newport Jazz Festival returns to Rhode Island for a 72nd edition this summer, and today, the annual event confirmed which artists will be tuning up. Highlights across this year\u2019s lineup include <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/33239-little-simz\/\">Little Simz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/angine-de-poitrine\/\">Angine de Poitrine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/12521-herbie-hancock\/\">Herbie Hancock<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29695-thundercat\/\">Thundercat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/gary-clark-jr\/\">Gary Clark Jr.<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/flea\/\">Flea<\/a> and his Honora Band, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/gena\/\">Gena<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/arlo-parks\/\">Arlo Parks<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/anoushka-shankar\/\">Anoushka Shankar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/32915-kamasi-washington\/\">Kamasi Washington<\/a>, trumpeter Chief Adjuah, and others will present a show in celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/798-john-coltrane\/\">John Coltrane<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/1023-miles-davis\/\">Miles Davis<\/a>\u2019 100th birthdays. <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/33664-robert-glasper\/\">Robert Glasper<\/a> is also set to perform alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29167-bilal\/\">Bilal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/ari-lennox\/\">Ari Lennox<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/jon-batiste\/\">Jon Batiste<\/a> will perform with his Jonathan Batiste Trio, which features Joe Saylor on drums and Phil Kuehn on bass. Browse the full lineup below.<\/p>\n<p>The festival returns to its longtime home of Fort Adams State Park from July 31 through August 2. The 2025 edition hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/3599-the-roots\/\">The Roots<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/1028-de-la-soul\/\">De La Soul<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/10788-janelle-monae\/\">Janelle Mon\u00e1e<\/a>, Jorja Smith, Esperanza Spalding, Terence Blanchard, and many more.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-iJvQnD cOWUYC asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-fnduJP iaVSwI asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-kFnjvc eKnjjD responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-gaAbQ hXaxHA asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-jKunQM gjCCFj AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-gaAbQ hXaxHA asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/thundercat-angine-de-poitrine-to-play-newport-jazz-festival-2026\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newport Jazz Festival returns to Rhode Island for a 72nd edition this summer, and today, the annual event confirmed which artists will be tuning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-62972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","tag-alt","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}