Скачать или смотреть WELLES SmAsHeS Newport Folk Festival 07/27/2025

Jesse Welles brings the 2025 Newport Folk Festival to a smashing conclusion on Sunday, July 27th, 2025.

For those who are upset with the destruction of a musical instrument - This was a non-functioning guitar that would not allow Jesse to play properly, or to finish the song with the guitar solo he was attempting to play. You can see in the video how hard he is working, to try to get it to play correctly. But it won't. So, in the moment, Jesse chose to launch the guitar into music history.

He did not choose to give this old, non-functioning guitar away, but what he DID choose was to gather up the pieces, sign them, and donate them to the Newport Festival Foundation, to be sold at auction as a fundraising event for the Festival. And that's what happened. Today, the guitar has become a treasured, prized possession of the lucky auction winner.