Festival of folk of Newport

The festival of folk of Newport (“The Newport Folk Festival”) was the first festival Folk of importance to the the United States. Create in 1958 by the business managers George Wein and Albert Grossman, it is organized in July and is held with the “freebody park”, with the limits of the city. Georges Wein is also the creator of the jazz festival of Newport.

Birth

The first edition began on July 11th 1959 and was held during two days; bringing together 28 artists, it revealed in particular Joan Baez, invited by the singer Bob Gibson. After the edition of 1960, the festival was stopped during two years, following the riots which shook the jazz festival in 1960.

Rebirth

In 1962, it reappears, under the impulse of Wein, Pete Seeger and of Theodore Bikel, who found the Newport Festival Foundation . Association has from now on a nonlucrative goal, “for first of all presenting the music folk without the usual economic needs, and then to perpetrate the traditions on which are based the current renewed interests”. The festival, organized in “workshops” seeks to bring together traditional singers as well as devoted names. In spite of its orientation folk, it also accommodated artists such as Howlin' Wolf or Johnny Cash.

45 to 47000 spectators, mainly from the high-school pupils and the students come to attend the edition of 1963, which is held from July 26th to 28th. A hundred artists take part in it, such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, of which it is the first common service.

The “electric” passage of Bob Dylan in 1965

See also: Amorce=Voir on this subject, Bob_Dylan#Le_passage_de_Bob_Dylan_au_Festival_Folk_de_Newport, the passage of Bob Dylan to the Festival Folk de Newport

Today

The festival of Folk de Newport, after being itself stopped in 1971, began again in 1985, to answer the resurgence of the music folk. Called from now on “Dunkin' Donuts Newport Folk Festival”, it is held at the first days of August.

Documentary

The festival of Newport in the Années 1960 is approached in two documentary:

  • Festival! of Murray Lerner (1967)

  • No direction Home , of Martin Scorsese (2005)

References

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