Festival Field Apartments (Newport, Rhode Island)

USA / Rhode Island / Middletown / Newport, Rhode Island / Girard Avenue, 90
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Section 8 housing - www.aspensquare.com/rhode-island/newport/festival-field...

home of the Newport Jazz Festival for some years 1965 - ?
"The 1964 festival was the last at Freebody Park since the event had outgrown that venue also. Festival organizers saw a need to move the festival outside of the downtown area since the festival-caused gridlock there was a contentious point in the community. A suitable site, actually a simple but ample field, which would become known as Festival Field, was identified and the move was completed for the 1965 festival. Frank Sinatra played the festival that year and new attendance records were set." cont...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Jazz_Festival
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Coordinates:   41°30'42"N   71°18'50"W
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