Newport & The Great Folk Dream, which premieres this week at the San Francisco International Film Festival, is packed with ...

You know that Bob Dylan's electric period was important. But you might not know why it made such a difference on the rock world.

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 recent biopic "A Complete Unknown", which starred ...

For anyone who saw A Complete Unknown and wondered how close it resembled the actual Newport Folk Festival where Bob Dylan amped up his music, a new documentary will help answer that question. Among ...

The excitement for the Newport Folk Festival builds even before the performers are announced. Tickets sell out without any knowledge of who is coming to Fort Adams, and the energy builds are the acts ...

Throughout the early sixties, the Newport Folk Festival provided a spotlight for folk royalty like Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and Howlin’ Wolf, under the assumed context that they’d uphold the festival’s ...

NEWPORT, R.I. — The Newport Folk Festival is kicking off three days of music at Fort Adams, and plans some surprises to mark the 50th anniversary of the moment Bob Dylan went electric. Acts playing ...

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 ...

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 ...