On Artscape today, we take a look at the URI Guitar festival, getting underway this weekend, for its 6th year, showcasing a wide variety of virtuoso guitar and other stringed instrumentalists from around the world. Last year, because of the pandemic, the festival was all virtual, but this year, it’s operating on a hybrid model, with a return to live performances. The Public's Radio's morning host Chuck Hinman talked about that earlier this week, with Adam Levin, classical guitarist and URI professor, and the force behind the festival.

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"A Lie Agreed Upon" is on now at The Gamm Theatre in Warwick. Morning host Chuck Hinman and Artscape producer James Baumgartner review the play.

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George Wein died Monday at the age of 95. He was the founder of the Newport Folk and Jazz festivals and helped set the template for music festivals around the world. In 2015, he talked with Chuck Hinman, morning host for The Public’s Radio. It was 50 years after Bob Dylan played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and shocked the folk music faithful with an electric guitar.

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The WaterFire Arts Center in Providence is currently showing “Eye to Eye” an arresting exhibition of portraiture by Mary Beth Meehan. Artscape producer James Baumgartner visited the Center in the Valley district in Providence.

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This is the Artscape demo page, created this morning.

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Reverend Osagyefu Sekou is playing in Woonsocket Friday night with his band The Freedom Fighters. Artscape producer James Baumgartner has this preview.

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The Rhode Island International Film Festival gets underway this week, running until the 15th of August.

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