The Violent Femmes will join the Friday lineup at this year’s sold out Newport Folk Festival, joining the likes of Flight of the Conchords, Ray LaMontagne, The Arcs, St. Paul and the Broken Bones and others as those slated to kick off the first day of the Rhode Island festival.

The rockers join a full lineup that also includes Norah Jones, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Father John Misty, Middle Brother, Glen Hansard, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats and many others.

Newport Folk Festival is slated for July 22-24 in Newport, RI.