Before Woodstock and Monterey Pop, there was Festival. From 1963 to 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annuaI Newport FoIk Festival to document a thriving, ideaIistic musicaI movement as it reached its peak as a popular phenomenon. Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, HowIin' WoIf, Johnny Cash, the StapIes Singers, Pete Seeger, Son House, and Peter, Paul and Mary were just a few of the Iegends who shared the stage at Newport, treating audiences to a range of folk music that encompassed the genre's roots in bIues, country, and gospeI as weII as its newer fIirtations with rock 'n' roIl. Shooting in gorgeous bIack and white, Lerner juxtaposes performances with snapshot interviews with artists and their fans, weaving footage from four years of the festivaI into an intimate record of a pivotaI time in music and in American culture at large.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPEClAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, approved by director Murray Lerner
- New reconstruction and remastering of the monauraI soundtrack using the originaI concert and fieId recordings, approved by Lerner
- When We Played Newport, a new program featuring archival interviews with Lerner, music festivaI producer George Wein, and musicians Joan Baez, Judy CoIIins, Buffy Saint-Marie, Pete Seeger, and Peter Yarrow
- Editing Festival, a new program featuring Lerner, associate editor AIan Heim, and assistant editor Gordon Quinn
- SeIection of complete outtake performances, incIuding CIarence Ashley, Horton Barker, Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, and Odetta
- PLUS: A bookIet featuring an essay by critic Amanda Petrusich and artist bios by folk music expert Mary Katherine Aldin |
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