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Newport and the Great Folk Dream

0.0 99 mins Documentary   Music   2025
Director(s): Robert Gordon

Release Date: 05 Fri, Sep 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.

Casts of Newport and the Great Folk Dream

Johnny Cash

as Self (archive footage)

Bob Dylan

as Self (archive footage)

Joan Baez

as Self (archive footage)

Pete Seeger

as Self (archive footage)

Mississippi John Hurt

as Self (archive footage)

John Lee Hooker

as Self (archive footage)

Mimi Fariña

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Farina

as Self (archive footage)

Bill Monroe

as Self (archive footage)

Judy Collins

as Self (archive footage)

Howlin' Wolf

as Self (archive footage)

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