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Newport & the Great Folk Dream

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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. Newport & The Great Folk Dream sizzles with the energy of youth and promise. We're living through radical change now, and we hope this movie inspires more music, more understanding, more courage. This immersive, all-archival film features never-before-seen footage of folk, blues and rock greats in their prime of youth, on stage and off between 1963 and 1966 at Newport, the festival that started them all.

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Robert Gordon

Director

Joe Lauro

Producer

Robert Gordon

Producer

Laura Jean Hocking

Producer

Murray Lerner

Cinematographer

George Pickow

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Synopsis 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. Newport & The Great Folk Dream sizzles with the energy of youth and promise. We're living through radical change now, and we hope this movie inspires more music, more understanding, more courage. This immersive, all-archival film features never-before-seen footage of folk, blues and rock greats in their prime of youth, on stage and off between 1963 and 1966 at Newport, the festival that started them all.
Director
Robert Gordon
Producer
Joe Lauro, Robert Gordon, Laura Jean Hocking
Production Co
Folk Explosion
Genre
Documentary, History, Music
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 39m