Newport and the Great Folk Dream
2025-09-05 | 99 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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Johnny CashSelf (archive footage)
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Bob DylanSelf (archive footage)
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Joan BaezSelf (archive footage)
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Pete SeegerSelf (archive footage)
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John Lee HookerSelf (archive footage)
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Mimi FariñaSelf (archive footage)
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Bill MonroeSelf (archive footage)
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Judy CollinsSelf (archive footage)
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Howlin' WolfSelf (archive footage)
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