Overview - Newport and the Great Folk Dream

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.

Cast

• Name: Johnny Cash

  Character: Self (archive footage)

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• Name: Bob Dylan

  Character: Self (archive footage)

  Popularity: 1.4859

  

• Name: Joan Baez

  Character: Self (archive footage)

  Popularity: 0.7233

  

• Name: Pete Seeger

  Character: Self (archive footage)

  Popularity: 0.411

  

• Name: Mississippi John Hurt

  Character: Self (archive footage)

  Popularity: 0.0987

  

• Name: John Lee Hooker

  Character: Self (archive footage)

  Popularity: 0.2451

  

• Name: Mimi Fariña

  Character: Self (archive footage)

  Popularity: 0.3001

  

• Name: Richard Farina

  Character: Self (archive footage)

  Popularity: 0.1298