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Fantastic Negrito, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2018

Friday's incisive performance, rich with raging guitar and explosive organ, marked Fantastic Negrito's first appearance at Newport and his first in Rhode Island.
Fantastic Negrito performing at the 2018 Newport Folk Festival

's setting on Rhode Island's historic Fort Adams offers a panoramic view of the picturesque Narragansett Bay and the Claiborne Pell Bridge. Though a steamy summer fog hung over , a.k.a. Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, took the stage for one of the weekend's first sets, the festival folk he affectionately dubbed the Negrito Nation were unfazed.

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