Newport & The Great Folk Dream

Johnny Cash in close-up singing at the Newport Folk Festival 1965.

The Chambers Brothers, seen from the rear, with an audience of thousands watching them, outdoors at the Newport Folk Festival 1965, daytime.

About Newport & The Great Folk Dream

Powerful music leaps from the air and can change the actual world. At the Newport Folk Festivals in the early 1960s, the molecules were electric with rebellion and democracy, with anger and hope. Musicians drove that change—Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger but also banjo players from coal country, remote Georgia gospel artists, rural Canadian fishermen, and the opportunities created for the urban kids to mingle with those they'd not ordinarily encounter. Newport & the Great Folk Dream sizzles with the energy of youth and promise.
Starring Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Mississippi John Hurt, John Lee Hooker, Richard & Mimi Farina, Dave Van Ronk, Bill Monroe, Son House, Judy Collins, Stanley Brothers, Howlin' Wolf, Butterfield Blues Band and more.