Bleachers welcomed a range of big names to the stage during their show at Newport Folk Festival this weekend – watch footage below.
Jack Antonoff’s band took to the stage at Rhode Island’s Fort Adams State Park on Friday (July 25), where Hayley Williams, Waxahatchee, Jeff Tweedy, Weyes Blood, Rufus Wainwright, Maren Morris and Dan Reedy were all special guests.
The set was billed as a Newport edition of Bleachers’ annual The Ally Coalition Talent Show, which had its 10th edition in New York last December and raises funds for the non-profit organisation of the same name.
Weyes Blood’s Natalie Mering joined for a cover of ‘Dream A Little Dream Of Me’, while they were then both joined by Waxahatchee for Roy Orbison’s ‘You Got It’. Elsewhere, Wainwright came out for a version of Bob Dylan’s ‘Not Dark Yet’, and Wilco frontman Tweedy sang Lana Del Rey’s ‘Margaret’ as well as his own ‘Kamera’.
Paramore singer Williams gave a live debut to her recent new song ‘Mirtazapine’ and covered Modern English’s ‘I Melt With You’, while Bleachers also covered The Waterboys’ ‘The Whole Of The Moon’.
Watch footage from the show here:
Bleachers played:
‘91’
‘Rollercoaster’
‘Goodmorning’
‘Dream A Little Dream Of Me’ (with Weyes Blood)
‘You Got It’ (with Waxahatchee and Weyes Blood)
‘Maybe’ (with Dan Reeder, Waxahatchee and Weyes Blood)
‘I Wanna Get Better’
‘Don’t Go Dark’ (with Maren Morris)
‘45’ (with Rufus Wainwright)
‘Not Dark Yet’ (with Rufus Wainwright)
‘Margaret’ (with Jeff Tweedy)
‘Kamera’ (with Jeff Tweedy)
‘Mirtazapine’ (with Hayley Williams)
‘I Melt With You’ (with Hayley Williams)
‘The Whole Of The Moon’
‘Modern Girl’
At the Ally Coalition show last December, Sabrina Carpenter and Remi Wolf made appearances, as did Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates.
2024 saw The Ally Coalition’s most successful year with roughly $450,000 raised to help at-risk LGBTQ+ youth. You can visit here to shop their merch which was designed in-house by Rachel Antonoff with all proceeds going to support LGBTQ Youth, and here to donate to the cause.