Festival (1967)
Newport is an oasis of beautiful music - and beautiful people ... who take the high road to
95 min
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show its range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Dick Farina, and others less well known also perform. Several talk musical philosophy, and there's a running commentary about the nature and appeal of folk music. The crowd looks clean cut.
- Release date
- October 23, 1967
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Joan Baez as Self
- Horton Barker as Self
- Fiddler Beers as Self
- Theodore Bikel as Self
- Mike Bloomfield as Self
- Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers as Themselves
- Paul Butterfield as Self
- Johnny Cash as Self
- Judy Collins as Self
- Cousin Emmy as Self
Crew
- Murray Lerner · Director
- Murray Lerner · Writer
- Murray Lerner · Producer
- Francis Grumman · Cinematographer
- Murray Lerner · Cinematographer
- Stanley Meredith · Cinematographer
- George Pickow · Cinematographer
- Howard Alk · Editor