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NEWPORT AND THE GREAT FOLK DREAM USA, 2025, 99 min, black and white, music documentary

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.

 

Robert Gordon

Robert Gordon

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
DIRECTOR
Robert Gordon
CAMERA
Murray Lerner, George Pickow, Stanley Meredith, Francis Grumman
CAST
Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Stanley Brothers, Dave Van Ronk, Moving Star Hall Singers, John Lee Hooker,
PRODUCERS
Joe Lauro
PRODUCTION
Folk Explosion

NEWPORT AND THE GREAT FOLK DREAM USA, 2025, 99 min, black and white, music documentary

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