Throughout the early sixties, the Newport Folk Festival provided a spotlight for folk royalty like Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and Howlin’ Wolf, under the assumed context that they’d uphold the festival’s ...

The recent Oscar-nominated film A Complete Unknown drew renewed attention to Bob Dylan’s historic performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where he caused a stir by performing with an electric ...

It was a three song set that helped the change the course of pop music history: Bob Dylan ‘going electric’ at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Exactly fifty years after the event, the festival’s ...

"Newport and the Great Folk Dream" ends with Dylan's now-famous performance in 1965 in which he plays an electric instead of acoustic guitar -- upsetting folk music purists -- leading to booing from ...

The 2024 Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown introduced the history of the Newport Folk Festival to an entirely new generation of music fans. But recreations of the 1963, 1964, and 1965 festivals were ...

The Fender Stratocaster that Bob Dylan plugged in when he famously went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival sold Friday for nearly $1 million — the highest price ever paid for a guitar at ...

The leather jacket Bob Dylan wore during his 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island will be on loan to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for its upcoming ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Newport & the Great Folk Dream” is a rapturous documentary — elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical black-and-white ...

A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a pivotal moment in folk music history taps into a revival of interest in Bob Dylan thanks to recent biopic "A Complete Unknown", which starred ...

A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a pivotal moment in folk music history taps into a revival of interest in Bob Dylan. A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a ...