Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Release: 2025-09-05
·Runtime: 99m
Documentary
Music
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Cast
Judy Collins
as Self (archive footage)
Johnny Cash
as Self (archive footage)
Pete Seeger
as Self (archive footage)
Mimi Fariña
as Self (archive footage)
Bill Monroe
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan
as Self (archive footage)
Joan Baez
as Self (archive footage)
John Lee Hooker
as Self (archive footage)
