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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bob Dylan, the Freedom Singers, Peter Yarrow and Pete Seeger seen in 'Newport & the Great Folk Dream' - Credit: Courtesy of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2024 Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown introduced the history of the Newport Folk Festival to an entirely new generation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Gordon's transporting film draws on 100 hours of footage that has never been seen before, presenting performances of timeless power. The movie presents a far richer, more wide-ranging and ...

Rambling hobo --Ground hog --Little orphan girl --Train that carried my girl from town --House carpenter --Little sadie -- Coocoo bird --The devil and the farmer's wife --The storms are on the ocean - ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

They say you can’t go home again. But don’t tell that to Oscar winner John Ridley. The writer-director and co-host of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast returned to his hometown for the 18th annual Milwaukee ...