Festival/Dvd, Criterion Collection, DVD
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$5 - $10, All, Avi Lerner, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan And The Grateful Dead, Brownie McGhee, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cash, Cousin Emmy, Criterion Collection, Documentary, Donovan, Dylan & The Dead, Fiddler Beers, Gary Howsam, Horton Barker, Howlin Wolf, Jack Gilardi Jr., Joan Baez, Johnny, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Lewin Webb, Mary Travers, Mike Bloomfield, Movies & TV › TV, Murray Lerner, Odetta, Over $10, Paul Butterfield, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Ronnie Gilbert, Sonny Terry, Special Interest-Documentary, Special Interests, The Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers, The Osborne Brothers, The Staple Singers, Theodore Bikel, TV, Under $5Before Woodstock and Monterey Pop, there was Festival. From 1963 to 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to document a thriving, idealistic musical movement as it reached it's peak as a popular phenomenon. Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Cash, the Staples Singers, Pete Seeger, Son House, and Peter, Paul and Mary were just a few of the legends who shared the stage at Newport, treating audiences to a range of folk music that encompassed the genre's roots in blues, country, and gospel as well as it's newer flirtations with rock 'n' roll. Shooting in gorgeous black and white, Lerner juxtaposes performances with snapshot interviews with artists and their fans, weaving footage from four years of the festival into an intimate record of a pivotal time in music and in American culture at large.
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