Festival
This documentary captures performances, interviews, and conversations from the 1963-1966 Newport Folk Festivals. Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport F…
Festival
This documentary captures performances, interviews, and conversations from the 1963-1966 Newport Folk Festivals. Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show their range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Richard Fariña, and others less well-known also perform. Several talk musical philosophy, and there's a running commentary about the nature and appeal of folk music. —<jhailey@hotmail.com> Director Murray Lerner makes this black and white documentary of the Folk Music at Newport from 1963 to 1966, entwining interviews with the audiences that highlight the importance of the folk music and performances of artists like Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary; Donovan; Howlin' Wolf; and Johnny Cash. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Festival
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Film Details
This documentary captures performances, interviews, and conversations from the 1963-1966 Newport Folk Festivals. Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and electric.
Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show their range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Richard Fariña, and others less well-known also perform.
Several talk musical philosophy, and there's a running commentary about the nature and appeal of folk music. —<jhailey@hotmail.com> Director Murray Lerner makes this black and white documentary of the Folk Music at Newport from 1963 to 1966, entwining interviews with the audiences that highlight the importance of the folk music and performances of artists like Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary; Donovan; Howlin' Wolf; and Johnny Cash. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.