Festival

Synopsis

Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show its range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Dick Farina, and others less well known also perform. Several talk musical philosophy, and there's a running commentary about the nature and appeal of folk music. The crowd looks clean cut.

Main Cast

Horton Barker

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Fiddler Beers

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Theodore Bikel

Self

Age : 91 | Popularity : 7%

Pete Seeger

Self

Age : 94 | Popularity : 3%

Bob Dylan

Self

Age : 82 | Popularity : 8%

Howlin' Wolf

Self

Age : 65 | Popularity : 3%

Donovan

Self

Age : 77 | Popularity : 4%

Johnny Cash

Self

Age : 71 | Popularity : 8%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Murray Lerner
Camera	Director of Photography	Murray Lerner Stanley Meredith Francis Grumman George Pickow
Production	Producer	Murray Lerner
Writing	Writer	Murray Lerner
Editing	Editor	Howard Alk
Department	Role	Name

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