Newport and the Great Folk Dream poster
Basic Info
Release: September 05, 2025

Newport and the Great Folk Dream

2025
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.

Genres
Documentary Music
Production Countries
  • United States of America
Spoken Languages
  • English en

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Cast
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Self (archive footage)
Joan Baez
Joan Baez
Self (archive footage)
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Self (archive footage)
Mississippi John Hurt
Self (archive footage)
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
Self (archive footage)
Mimi Fariña
Mimi Fariña
Self (archive footage)
Richard Farina
Self (archive footage)
Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Judy Collins
Judy Collins
Self (archive footage)
Howlin' Wolf
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon
Director
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