New Belgium Brewing Company is a regional brewery located in Fort Collins, Colorado. It opened in 1991 after Jeff Lebesch, the brewery's founder, took his home-brewing passion commercial. In 2009, it produced over 582,000 barrels of its various labels.[1] As of 2010, it was the third-largest craft brewery and seventh-largest overall brewery in the United States.[2]
The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. In 1954 the first Newport Jazz Festival (billed actually as the "First Annual American Jazz Festival") was held at Newport Casino in the Bellevue Avenue Historic District of Newport, Rhode Island.