Newport and the Great Folk Dream Poster

Newport and the Great Folk Dream

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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.

Featured Crew

Robert Gordon
Director
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Cast

Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Self (archive footage)
Joan Baez
Joan Baez
Self (archive footage)
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Self (archive footage)
Mississippi John Hurt
Mississippi John Hurt
Self (archive footage)

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