Video: Bob Dylan - Live at the Newport Folk Festival

July 29-31, 2011 Newport, RI Line-up TBA Founded in 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival, the Newport Folk Festival features performances by folk, blues, country, bluegrass and folk rock musicians. Perhaps most well know for the festival where Bob Dylan in 1965 shocked the audience by going electric, since the 1990's the NFF has featured performers from related contemporary genres, such as alternative country, indie folk and folk punk. The setting, Fort Adams State Park, is renowned for its natural [...]

2010 Newport Folk Festival - Jul 30-Aug 1 - Fort Adams State Park // " This is the place where Dylan went electric and The Pixies went acoustic. " ( Jay Sweet, Paste Magazine ) 3 days. 3 stages. Get your ticket NOW at http://www.newportfolkfest.net / The 51st Annual Newport Folk Festival is NOT just easy-listening for those with silver hues in their locks or folklore fest-head hipsters. No, no, no. " Folk festival is [...]

Watched The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival last night at the Belcort. Another interesting Dylan flick. In one single instant he unplugged a generation. It's brilliantly amazing to be able to see Dylan physically and musically morph during these years. The best was Dylan singing Maggie's Farm with Bloomfield's blistering guitar backing him up is prime. I highly recommend this movie. The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965: 01 All I Really Want to Do [7/24/1965] 02 North Country Blues [7/26/1963] 03 [...]