Lineup Archive

Newport Folk 2000 lineup

The Newport Folk line-up page lists 28 acts for Newport Folk 2000. 16 acts appeared at Newport Folk for the first time in our records.

28acts
57%first time at Newport Folk
Mary Chapin Carpenter Guy Clark Slaid Cleaves Shawn Colvin Stacey Earle Cliff Eberhardt Equation Melissa Ferrick
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones Mary Gauthier John Gorka Kerry Grombacher Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines Ray Wylie Hubbard Lucy Kaplansky Peter Keane Jess Klein Natalie MacMaster Natalie Merchant Willie Nelson Bob Neuwirth Carrie Newcomer Peter Rowan's Texas Trio with Tony Rice Toshi Reagon and Big Lovely Richard Shindell The String Cheese Incident Cheryl Wheeler Dar Williams

Full lineup

Lineup

  1. 1Mary Chapin Carpenter
  2. 2Guy Clark
  3. 3Slaid Cleaves
  4. 4Shawn Colvin
  5. 5Stacey Earle
  6. 6Cliff Eberhardt
  7. 7Equation
  8. 8Melissa Ferrick
  9. 9Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  10. 10Mary Gauthier
  11. 11John Gorka
  12. 12Kerry Grombacher
  13. 13Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines
  14. 14Ray Wylie Hubbard
  15. 15Lucy Kaplansky
  16. 16Peter Keane
  17. 17Jess Klein
  18. 18Natalie MacMaster
  19. 19Natalie Merchant
  20. 20Willie Nelson
  21. 21Bob Neuwirth
  22. 22Carrie Newcomer
  23. 23Peter Rowan's Texas Trio with Tony Rice
  24. 24Toshi Reagon and Big Lovely
  25. 25Richard Shindell
  26. 26The String Cheese Incident
  27. 27Cheryl Wheeler
  28. 28Dar Williams
On this bill

Their festival histories

Shawn Colvin 9 appearances Cheryl Wheeler 7 appearances Willie Nelson 7 appearances Dar Williams 6 appearances John Gorka 6 appearances Mary Chapin Carpenter 6 appearances Terri Hendrix 5 appearances The String Cheese Incident 5 appearances

First time at Newport Folk in 2000

Bela Fleck & The FlecktonesBob NeuwirthCarrie NewcomerEquationGuy ClarkJess KleinKerry GrombacherMary GauthierNatalie MacMasterNatalie MerchantPeter Rowan's Texas Trio with Tony RiceSlaid CleavesThe String Cheese IncidentTerri HendrixToshi Reagon and Big LovelyWillie Nelson

Longest-awaited returns

  1. Shawn Colvinlast played Newport Folk in 19928 years
  2. Peter Keanelast played Newport Folk in 19937 years
  3. Cliff Eberhardtlast played Newport Folk in 19946 years
  4. Mary Chapin Carpenterlast played Newport Folk in 19955 years
  5. John Gorkalast played Newport Folk in 19973 years

Other festivals in 2000

Glastonbury 2000 1 sharedReading & Leeds 2000
Next yearNewport Folk 2001See the lineup →

Questions about Newport Folk 2000

How many acts are on the Newport Folk 2000 lineup?

The Newport Folk line-up page lists 28 acts for Newport Folk 2000. Smaller stages and late additions may be missing.

Who played Newport Folk for the first time in 2000?

16 acts on the 2000 lineup had not appeared at Newport Folk before in our records, including Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Bob Neuwirth, Carrie Newcomer, Equation and Guy Clark.

Source: Wikipedia, "Newport Folk Festival lineups by year" (revision 1378953340), CC BY-SA 4.0. The lineup covers the stages and acts that page lists. Billing order follows the order acts are listed there; headliners are the acts it marks as headliners. This festival's source lists acts alphabetically, so the order says nothing about billing. "First time" means no earlier appearance in this archive. Spotted an error? Tell us.