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" 55: number of years the Newport Folk Festival has been up and running. Founded by George Wein, the festival invites a handful of music&amp;#039;s most talented to descend on Fort Adams State Park in Rhode Island every summer, where they play some four stages for an audience of 30,000. With a lineup growing more varied by the year that reaches well outside the realm of typical folk music, Newport Folk has become a destination for the the most beloved traditional tunes and genre-shirking music that challenges the definition of &amp;quot;folk.&amp;quot; This year, we decided to look at some of the impressive statistics of the festival, from the total number of bike check-ins (2,720, according to Bike Newport and REI) to the number of customized Fort Lonesome Newport Folk shirts producer Jay Sweet owns and wore (4, in case you&amp;#039;re curious) over the festival&amp;#039;s 3 days. Have a look at our final tally.  2: Number of decades The Lonesome Trio \u2014 aka Ed Helms, Ian Riggs, and Jacob Tilove \u2014 have been stompin&amp;#039; through bluegrass. While the group was posing for this shot in a ramshackle corner of Fort Adams, the joke was cracked that they&amp;#039;re the longest running bluegrass band without a record or tour between them. (Given Ed&amp;#039;s shooting schedule, we think that&amp;#039;s perfectly acceptable.) Stand by, because that&amp;#039;s changing soon.  5: Number of years that John Reilly (yeah, that John Reilly), Becky Stark, and Tom Brosseau have been practicing bluegrass covers and writing their own songs inspired by yesteryear as John Reilly and Friends.  5: Number of Deer Tick members who can fit in one Porta-Potty backstage, even if they&amp;#039;re sporting snazzy white tuxes. Deer Tick threw a series of raucous after-parties on each night of the festival, so the duds definitely upped the look for the hard-rocking hosts.   2: Number of sequined dresses channeling &amp;#039;70s disco-ball glamour sported by Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius. In addition to their own set on Saturday, the girls returned to the Fort on the festival&amp;#039;s closing day to accompany Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco before heading to the Newport Blues Caf\u00E9 to get rowdy with Deer Tick.  6:2: Ratio of dirty boots to clean boots onstage during Gregory Alan Isakov&amp;#039;s set. All eight brought one incredible performance to Newport Folk with 20 strings and four voices stunning the crowd. It&amp;#039;s what we&amp;#039;ve come to expect from Gregory and his crew, after we recorded him playing a killer Live Session for us.   1,150: Number of miles from Fort Adams to Birmingham, Alabama, namesake of the stunning ballad Shovels &amp;amp;amp; Rope played at Newport, which transported the crowd to the Deep South for a moment.  103: Number of smiles exchanged between Lake Street Dive&amp;#039;s Rachael Price and Mavis Staples during their duet. &amp;quot;Bad Self Portraits&amp;quot; is the single that shot the Brooklyn four-piece to the top of every Hear Now playlist. Not many bands can say that a legend has their first hit stuck in her head, but that&amp;#039;s exactly what happened to Lake Street Dive, as Staples could be heard singing the chorus to &amp;quot;Bad Self Portraits&amp;quot; in the hours following the set.  75: Number of candles Mavis Staples blew out on her birthday cake Sunday afternoon. Mavis (and yes, she treated us to some scat singing while we took her photo!) is one of the Staple Singers, most famously known for contributing &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll Take You There&amp;quot; to American soul and Muscle Shoals&amp;#039; storied musical history. A popular gal, Mavis sat in with tons of people at Newport Folk, and Lucius, Norah Jones, Taylor Goldsmith, Trampled by Turtles, and friend and collaborator Jeff Tweedy joined her for her own festival-closing set on her 75th birthday.  3: Number of times Trampled by Turtles have played Newport Folk, and the frenzied picking and perplexingly perfect punk/bluegrass explosion bounces off the walls of Fort Adams with the same fervor each and every single time.   30: Number of hours Shakey Graves spent driving to Newport Folk. That&amp;#039;s nothing compared to the trip ahead for Austin&amp;#039;s own cosmic cowboy post-festival: After his time in Newport, he threw his guitar and suit in the van and set out for Portland, Oregon, on a cross-country trek, a typical jaunt for the troubadour.  Oh, plus 1 awesome hip shake!    6: Number of festivals Hurray for the Riff Raff has hit so far this summer. Alynda Lee Segarra will see a few more before the close of the season, but thankfully the vibrant, compelling strains of 2014&amp;#039;s Small Town Heroes keep audiences coming back for more.   126: Number of hours Lucero are currently spending on their tour bus per week, approximately. Newport Folk is a northeastern stop on the national tour the Memphis country-punk act is currently plowing through as they ready for the release of Lucero: Live from Atlanta on August 12.  912: Number of times Ryan Adams got distracted by passing sailboats and/or cracked a joke at his own expense during his Friday night set. Read our thoughts on the return of Ryan Adams at Newport Folk here. (Photo by Nina Westervelt)  84: Number of years since Pokey LaFarge&amp;#039;s suit was tailored \u2014 or at least that&amp;#039;s what we initially thought, because LaFarge&amp;#039;s vibe is that of another century, and that&amp;#039;s one of the reasons we love the American roots musician (and buddy of Jack White).  And speaking of Jack...  .420: Jack White&amp;#039;s listed batting average on his baseball card for the Detroit Tigers, which we happened to get a look at backstage. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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