The past blends with the present.
The Rhode Island Wind Ensemble performs for our free summer concert series in Touro Park, July 2022.

Historic Music of Newport Founder, Dr. Mark Stickney, leading a tour at Fort Adams Cemetery.

Instrument petting zoo at Green Animals Topiary Garden. Photo courtesy of the Preservation Society of Newport County.

Board member, Dr. Christopher Brellochs, playing saxophone during “Melodies of the Gilded Age” lecture, at Rosecliff in 2022. Photo Courtesy of the Preservation Society of Newport County.

Our Archives

Our research and our archives inform everything we do. Below is a rotating sample of items in our collection that have inspired us.
Please email staff@historicmusicofnewport.org if you would like to research something further or if you have a family geneology question.

Organist and composer Josephine (MacDonald) McHenry.

1903 Letter from Fort Adams Bandmaster John Freeman.

Down in Dear Old Newport Town, composed and published in Newport in 1913.