Lineup Archive

Newport Folk On Tour 1998 lineup

The Newport Folk line-up page lists 9 acts for Newport Folk On Tour 1998. 6 acts appeared at Newport Folk for the first time in our records.

9acts
67%first time at Newport Folk
Joan Baez Mark Eitzel Jimmie Dale Gilmore Leo Kottke Rickie Lee Jones John Hiatt The Staple Singers Wilco
Lucinda Williams

Full lineup

Lineup

  1. 1Joan Baez
  2. 2Mark Eitzel
  3. 3Jimmie Dale Gilmore
  4. 4Leo Kottke
  5. 5Rickie Lee Jones
  6. 6John Hiatt
  7. 7The Staple Singers
  8. 8Wilco
  9. 9Lucinda Williams
On this bill

Their festival histories

Wilco 17 appearances · headlined 2× Joan Baez 16 appearances John Hiatt 9 appearances Lucinda Williams 7 appearances The Staple Singers 4 appearances Jimmie Dale Gilmore 2 appearances Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon 2 appearances

First time at Newport Folk in 1998

Jimmie Dale GilmoreLeo Kottke & Mike GordonLucinda WilliamsMark EitzelRickie Lee JonesWilco

Longest-awaited returns

  1. The Staple Singerslast played Newport Folk in 19917 years

Questions about Newport Folk On Tour 1998

How many acts are on the Newport Folk On Tour 1998 lineup?

The Newport Folk line-up page lists 9 acts for Newport Folk On Tour 1998. Smaller stages and late additions may be missing.

Who played Newport Folk for the first time in 1998?

6 acts on the 1998 lineup had not appeared at Newport Folk before in our records, including Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon, Lucinda Williams, Mark Eitzel and Rickie Lee Jones.

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.