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 ...

A new documentary, Newport & The Great Folk Dream, uses rare archival footage and fresh interviews to revisit the legendary 1960s festival that shaped modern music The film spotlights Bob Dylan’s ...

For the majority of his career, Bob Dylan has always been the folk hero. From “Blowin’ in the Wind” to “Tangled Up in Blue", Dylan defined folk music and became a leading figure in the genre. However, ...

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 ...

It was a three song set that helped the change the course of pop music history: Bob Dylan ‘going electric’ at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Exactly fifty years after the event, the festival’s ...

VENICE - A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a pivotal moment in folk music history taps into a revival of interest in Bob Dylan thanks to the recent biopic “A Complete Unknown”, ...

The Fender Stratocaster that Bob Dylan plugged in when he famously went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival sold Friday for nearly $1 million — the highest price ever paid for a guitar at ...

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 ...