The upcoming film 'Newport & The Great Folk Dream' is packed with rare footage of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Johnny Cash, and other icons.
“Newport & the Great Folk Dream” is a rapturous documentary — elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical black-and-white images and performances that have a timeless power. The movie tells the ...
In its ‘60s heyday, Newport Folk Festival became the crucible where tradition collided with an emergent generation’s fervent, socially activated spirit to forge a new musical counterculture. This ...
From 1963 to 1966, a team of filmmakers shot nearly 80 hours of footage of the Newport Folk Festival, documenting performances, interviewing attendees, and capturing the festival’s changes as rock ...
Evidence suggests that Newport, a popular summer tourism destination, was also a summer destination for the native people who lived on the island before settlers arrived.