The Newport Folk Festival didn’t just predate generation-defining events like Woodstock and Monterey Pop — it laid the foundation for the youth-driven spectacles that followed, from Coachella to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Newport & the Great Folk Dream” is a rapturous documentary — elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical black-and-white ...

James Mangold's new film "A Complete Unknown" reaches its climax when Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) takes the stage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, drawing boos from the crowd and disgust from his ...

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 ...

The footage, including the light and sound, is excellent. This film is mesmerizing. I'd never seen such a young Dylan. I loved the very subtle aging, coming of age, captured in this film.

The recent Oscar-nominated film A Complete Unknown drew renewed attention to Bob Dylan’s historic performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where he caused a stir by performing with an electric ...

In August 1963, a yellow Telecaster emerged from Fender’s original California factory, ending up two years later in the hands of a gifted young guitarist named Michael Bloomfield — who bought it after ...

In a still from Newport & the Great Folk Dream, Bob Dylan sings "Blowing in the Wind" in 1963. (Photo: courtesy Robert Gordon) Today it was announced that Memphis director Robert Gordon’s newest film ...

Today, Bob Dylan is considered one of the most influential cultural figures of his time. But you wouldn’t have seen that coming had you seen him getting booed onstage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ...

Bob Dylan‘s early years on the New York and Minnesota folk scenes will be chronicled on the upcoming 18th volume of the Bootleg Series, Through The Open Window, 1956-1963. It arrives on October 31.