{"id":51014,"date":"2025-11-06T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/new-documentary-shows-another-side-of-the-newport-folk-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:23:09","slug":"new-documentary-shows-another-side-of-the-newport-folk-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/new-documentary-shows-another-side-of-the-newport-folk-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"New Documentary Shows Another Side of the Newport Folk Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-dylan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-dylan\" data-tag=\"bob-dylan\">Bob Dylan<\/a> biopic <em>A Complete Unknown<\/em> introduced the history of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/newport-folk-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_newport-folk-festival\" data-tag=\"newport-folk-festival\">Newport Folk Festival<\/a> to an entirely new generation of music fans. But recreations of the 1963, 1964, and 1965 festivals were shown almost entirely from the perspective of Bob Dylan, and the film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/bob-dylan-movie-a-complete-unknown-fact-check-1235194229\/\">stretched historical truth well past its breaking point<\/a> in quite a few scenes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe upcoming documentary film <em>Newport &amp; The Great Folk Dream<\/em> will correct that by presenting the event as it actually went down between 1963 and 1966, utilizing never-before-seen footage and interviews with Joan Baez, Noel \u201cPaul\u201d Stookey, Jim Kweskin, Taj Mahal, Judy Collins, Joe Boyd, Peter Yarrow, Maria Muldaur, and many others. The film screens on Friday at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and you can check out the trailer right here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Newport &amp; the Great Folk Dream\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G7iES0u2LBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Newport &amp; The Great Folk Dream<\/em> was directed by Robert Gordon, whose previous films include <em>Muddy Waters: Can\u2019t Be Satisfied<\/em>, <em>Johnny Cash\u2019s America<\/em>, and <em>Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan: \u2018Cowboy\u2019 Jack Clement\u2019s Home Movies.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThe footage over these four years, 1963-1966, documents how fast changes occur,\u201d Gordon says in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re living through radical change now, and we hope this movie inspires more music, more understanding, more courage. It was an honor to curate these artists \u2014 and a very difficult task. Bob Dylan goes electric, Phil Ochs leaps to the present, and Mississippi John Hurt makes time stand still. Pete Seeger and Peter, Paul &amp; Mary evolve before our eyes. The film is rife with surprises \u2014 and unusual sounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMuch of the footage from the Newport Folk Festival was captured by filmmaker Murray Lerner, and it appeared in his pivotal 1967 documentary <em>Festival.<\/em> In 2007, Lerner created <em>The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival<\/em>. It was built around his archive of Dylan footage from the events.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bob Dylan | The Other Side of The Mirror\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PpzNjYTC2qQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Newport &amp; The Great Folk Dream<\/em> takes a much broader look at the festival by showing footage of Judy Collins, Elizabeth Botton, John Lee Hooker, Peter, Paul &amp; Mary, Dave Van Ronk, Pete Seeger, the Chambers Brothers, and many others. \u201cAt the Newport Folk Festival, people who would not ordinarily encounter each other had the chance to develop bonds,\u201d Gordon says. \u201che festival was in the living folk tradition, elders sharing songs and technique, the youth innovating and pushing the envelope. Freedom songs rang out alongside work songs, a player on homemade pan pipes mesmerized listeners alongside the generation\u2019s greatest future singer-songwriters. The timeliness \u2014 and timelessness \u2014 is astonishing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Newport Folk Festival went on hiatus in 1969, but returned as an annual event in 1985. The 2025 show featured performances by Geese, Goose, Jeff Tweedy, Jack Antonoff and Bleachers, Margo Price, Kenny Loggins, Jesse Welles, Public Enemy, and Luke Combs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/documentary-newport-folk-festival-trailer-1235459285\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown introduced the history of the Newport Folk Festival to an entirely new generation of music fans&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":51015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}