Newport and the Great Folk Dream

Name: Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 2025-09-05
Duration: 1 h 39 min
Rating: 8.8
Cast: Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Mississippi John Hurt

Newport and the Great Folk Dream (2025)

1:39 (99 min)

Documentary, Music

United States

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Release date

5 September 2025

Director

Robert Gordon

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Actors

Johnny Cash

himself (archive footage)

Bob Dylan

himself (archive footage)

Joan Baez

herself (archive footage)

Pete Seeger

himself (archive footage)

Mississippi John Hurt

himself (archive footage)

John Lee Hooker

himself (archive footage)

Mimi Fariña

herself (archive footage)

Richard Farina

themself (archive footage)

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Short description

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.