Newport and the Great Folk Dream

Newport and the Great Folk Dream

Actors:  Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Mississippi John Hurt, John Lee Hooker Directors:  Robert Gordon

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...