Courtney Barnett is First Announced for '15 Newport Folk Festival

In recent years, the folks behind the Newport Folk Festival have mastered the art of building anticipation in the months leading up to the annual summer concert megafest.

Little by little, artist by artist, the festival’s PR arm steadily spills the beans on who will be playing at the three-day festival, allowing fans to get excited repeatedly as the full lineup takes shape.

And so it begins for 2015 with this year’s first announcement: Courtney Barnett.

Barnett is an Australian singer and songwriter who rose to prominence fairly recently with the release of How to Carve a Carrot into a Rose and The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas.

Barnett, 26, is known for her smart lyrics as well as being a dandy guitarist and bandleader. Her music employs storytelling and narrative with songs that Rolling Stone said “unspool like barstool revelations like some hybrid of Kimya Dawson and Kurt Cobain.”

Barnett has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, was named one of 2013’s “10 Best Discoveries” by Rolling Stone and blew away the audience at the CMJ Music Marathon. Her debut full-length album is due to drop on March 23.

The first song released from the new album, ”Pedestrian at Best,” is below: