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Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏Jul 28, 2023

We dig the bicycle-powered stage at #NewportFolk Festival. Our daughter is there again this year, and wherever she goes, she has an eye out for bicycles, to share bike buzz with us. She sent us this video clip from Newport today: #IlliterateLight

Here's a story about the NFF bike stage written by Ryan Belmore: "Illiterate Light bringing their bicycle-powered stage back to Newport Folk Festival" - https://whatsupnewp.com/2023/07/illiterate-light-bringing-their-bicycle-powered-stage-back-to-newport-folk-festival/

We're waiting for #MontereyJazzFestival, #CaliRoots, or other live music events in #MontereyCounty to make use of bicycle power too!

#PeoplePowered #LiveMusic #NewportFolkFest2023
#BikeTooter #MusicFestivals #Newport #RhodeIsland

Illiterate Light bringing their bicycle-powered stage back to Newport Folk Festival

Building on the momentum of last year, Illiterate Light – the duo of singer-guitarist Jeff Gorman and drummer Jake Cochran – are very excited to continue hosting The Bike Stage at Newport Folk Festival, taking place July 28-30. The Bike Stage […]

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Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏

What’s on our mind? Newport Folk Festival! We’re in California and have never been. We enjoy it vicariously via our daughter attending (she lives much closer to Rhode Island now, in Connecticut). Among the very special music she’s enjoyed at Newport was Joni Mitchell in 2022. https://youtu.be/9evpH6yjxrI (ICYMI, Duck Player “lets you watch videos on YouTube without privacy-invading ads, and keeps what you watch from impacting your recommendations.‌” https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help)

If you’re at 2025 #NewportFolkFestival #NewportFolk, we’ll enjoy your posts from there too. Love to see pics of 2025 bike valet station too, and #IlliterateLight bike-powered stage. https://sfba.social/@bikemonterey/114700484697807901

Joni Mitchell – A Case of You (Live at the Newport Folk Festival 2022) [Official Video]

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Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏Jul 26, 2025

“Newport has been amazing at giving us a platform to actually start to provide some [#ClimateChange] solutions for people. A lot of this comes down to reducing the amount that we’re in our #cars. A big part of this tour for us was looking at #infrastructure all up and down the east coast.

“This is a beautiful sight to see 2,000 bicyclists outside one of the best musical festivals in the country. This needs to be the standard for what we see all throughout the country and all throughout the world.”—Jeff Gorman, #IlliterateLight #musician #ClimateActivist #BikeAdvocate

#PeoplePowered #LiveMusic #concerts #festivals #NewportFolk #NewportFolkFestival #NewportFolkFest2025
#MusicFestivals #Newport #RhodeIsland #BikeTooter #cycling #transportation #ClimateAction

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/rock-duo-bikes-700-miles-to-newport-folk-festival/

Rock duo Illiterate Light bikes 700 miles to Newport Folk Festival

The annual Newport Folk Festival kicked off on Friday. Many festival attendees ride their bikes to the festival to promote reducing carbon emissions. Jeff Gorman, who is part of the rock duo Illiterate Light, joins CBS News to share his experience biking 700 miles to the festival.

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