Newport’s annual Winter Festival serves as the setting for the Rhode Island Wind Ensemble’s annual performance in the spacious and elegant Marriott Hotel atrium. Classical music from Europe, socialite songs of The Gilded Age, and military marches will be offered alongside music of enslaved people from Africa who came through Newport and the indigenous people native to the island. Our friends in the Block Island Sound Brass Quintet will join us, too! RIWE is honored to support Historic Music of Newport, a nonprofit dedicated to telling the story of the City by the Sea through the music of the people who lived and worked here; 100% of donations collected at the concert will go to support their important cultural preservation efforts.