Talk:Newport Folk Festival
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[edit] Re: photo of Dylan and Baez
Wouldn't it be better to get a picture of Dylan and Baez actually while they were performing together at Newport, either in '63 or '64? The current picture shows them during the 1963 March on Washington; it doesn't really have anything to do with the Newport Folk Festival. R Lowry 13:32, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Myth of Newport
Bruce Jackson, who was a director of the Newport Folk Festival, calls the stories of the audience booing Bob Dylan at Newport '65 "the myth of Newport". Check out his article on the subject at [1]. Bruce was present at the 1965 concert and in 2002 reviewed an audio tape, with a partial transcript at that link. I'll edit the page after giving people a chance to comment. Kevin Hayes 20:54, 2004 Dec 26 (UTC)
[edit] The Electric Dylan Controversy
Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home sheds some light on the Electric Dylan controversy. The documentary contains footage of Dylan's performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. The footage is extensive but edited; by comparing it to [Bruce Jackson's transcript, it's apparent that parts of the performance has been edited out.
The documentary appears to record the audience booing and cheering from the beginning of Dylan's three-song electric set; certainly, the documentary's subtitles describe the sound as "Mixture of booing and cheering from the audience."
Editing for clarity and length (!) would be quite welcome. -- Caroline Sanford 04:35, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Peter Yarrow
Peter Yarrow claims, on his self-published website biography[2], that:
- ...he helped launch the Newport Folk Festival in 1962.
Since this page and others report that the festival was founded in 1959 it's hard to understand what Yarrow means. This relates to us because we report the claim in his WP bio. Is anyone familiar enough with the history of the festival to resolve this disparity? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 22:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
The festival was founded in 1959. The "history" section of the PPM page explains that the festival was held in 59 and 60, but not in 61 and 62, and was restarted in 63. Apparently Peter was a member of the committee that worked in 62 to organize the restart in 63. --Eldred (talk) 16:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
