Newport and the Great Folk Dream

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2025 · 99 min · Documentary · Music · TMDB 9.0/10

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.

Directed by Robert Gordon

Cast

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