Title:
Festival : folk music at Newport, 1963-1966 / a film by Murray Lerner ; Janus Films ; conceived and directed by Murray Lerner ; produced by Murray Lerner, Patchke Productions.
ISBN:
9781681433547
Edition:
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Publication Information:
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
General Note:
With optional on-screen text identifying musicians and songs being performed.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1967.
Program notes by Amanda Petrusich and biographical notes on the performers by Mary Katherine Aldin (40 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Supplements: Making festival, "When we played Newport," featuring interview outtakes, a 2007 interview with Murray Lerner, and interviews recorded by Lerner between 2006 and 2010 with music festival producer George Wein and musicians Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Buffy Saint-Marie, Pete Seeger, and Peter Yarrow (approximately 30 min.); unreleased perormances, a selection of complete outtake performances, recorded 1963 and 1964, by Johnny Cash, Odetta, Clarence Ashley, Elizabeth Cotten, John Lee Hooker, and Tom Paxton (approximately 21 min.)
DVD; region 1; NTSC; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital; monaural.
Summary:
Performances of and interviews with some of the musicians who participated in the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1966.
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Performer:
Joan Baez, Horton Barker, Theodore Bikel, Mike Bloomfield, Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Cousin Emmy, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Mimi and Dick Fariña, the Freedom Singers, the Georgia Sea Island Singers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, Spider John Koerner, Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band, Tex Logan, Johannes "Spokes" Mashiyane, Fred McDowell, Odetta, the Osborne Brothers, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Alexander "Eck" Robertson, the Sacred Harp Singers, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, the Staple Singers, the Swan Silvertones, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, the Ed and Lonnie Young Fife and Drum Corps, and others.
Production Credits:
Photographed by Murray Lerner, Stanley Meredith, Francis Grumman, George Pickow; film editor, Howard Alk.
OCLC Number:
ocn995853298
Availability:
Lakeville - Heritage~1
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
