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Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Newport and the Great Folk Dream

Newport and the Great Folk Dream

2025

N/R

Categories:

  • Documentary
  • Music

Overview:

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.

Robert Gordon

Director

Cast:

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  • 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)
  • John Lee Hooker

    John Lee Hooker

    Self (archive footage)