ABOUT THE FILM

NEWPORT & THE GREAT FOLK DREAM

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.

Newport & The Great Folk Dream features musical performances with:

• Bob Dylan

• Johnny Cash

• Joan Baez

• Howlin’ Wolf

• Mississippi John Hurt

• The Lovin' Spoonful

• Fife and drum from Mississippi

• Milling song from Nova Scotia

• Axe chopping from a Texas chain gang

• And more….