Newport and the Great Folk Dream

Newport and the Great Folk Dream (2025)

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.

  • Release Date: 2025-09-05
  • Runtime: 1h 39min
  • Director: Robert Gordon

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Cast

  • Johnny Cash

    Self (archive footage)

  • Bob Dylan

    Self (archive footage)

  • Joan Baez

    Self (archive footage)

  • Pete Seeger

    Self (archive footage)

  • Mississippi John Hurt

    Self (archive footage)

  • John Lee Hooker

    Self (archive footage)

  • Mimi Fariña

    Self (archive footage)

  • Richard Farina

    Self (archive footage)

  • Bill Monroe

    Self (archive footage)

  • Judy Collins

    Self (archive footage)

  • Howlin' Wolf

    Self (archive footage)