'Newport & The Great Folk Dream' blends rare archival footage and new interviews to revisit the festival that ignited a culture clash and altered American music Val Wilmer/Redferns The Newport Folk ...
The 2024 Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown introduced the history of the Newport Folk Festival to an entirely new generation of music fans. But recreations of the 1963, 1964, and 1965 festivals were ...
“Newport & the Great Folk Dream” is a rapturous documentary — elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical black-and-white images and performances that have a timeless power. The movie tells the ...
For anyone who saw A Complete Unknown and wondered how close it resembled the actual Newport Folk Festival where Bob Dylan amped up his music, a new documentary will help answer that question. Among ...
The recent Oscar-nominated film A Complete Unknown drew renewed attention to Bob Dylan’s historic performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where he caused a stir by performing with an electric ...
Today, Bob Dylan is considered one of the most influential cultural figures of his time. But you wouldn’t have seen that coming had you seen him getting booed onstage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ...
Beginning with the 1956 78 RPM acetate of a 15-year-old Bob Zimmerman playing with his friends in The Jokers, Through the Open Window, 1956-1963 follows the artist who becomes Bob Dylan as he leaves ...