Newport and the Great Folk Dream (2025)
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.
Director: Robert Gordon
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Johnny Cash as Self (archive footage) |
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Bob Dylan as Self (archive footage) |
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Joan Baez as Self (archive footage) |
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Pete Seeger as Self (archive footage) |
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Mississippi John Hurt as Self (archive footage) |
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John Lee Hooker as Self (archive footage) |
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Mimi Fariña as Self (archive footage) |
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Richard Farina as Self (archive footage) |
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Bill Monroe as Self (archive footage) |
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Judy Collins as Self (archive footage) |
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Howlin' Wolf as Self (archive footage) |
| Directing | Robert Gordon | Director |
