Festival DVD cover

Festival is a 1967 documentary film about the Newport Folk Festival, directed by Murray Lerner. // Events December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... The Newport Folk Festival is an annual folk-oriented music festival founded in 1959 by George Wein, founder of the already-well-established Newport Jazz Festival, and his partner, Albert Grossman. ... Murray Lerner is a Documentary and Experimental motion picture Director and Producer who created the 1980 Oscar winning documentary: From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. ...

Filmed over the course of four festivals at Newport (1963-1966), the film features performances by Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Odetta and many others. A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as; musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. ... Newport as seen from the International Space Station. ... Johnny Cash (born J. R. Cash, February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an influential American country and rock and roll singer and songwriter. ... Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. ... Pete Seeger (1955) Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919) almost universally known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer and political activist. ... Odetta (b. ...

It also features the infamous 1965 set by Bob Dylan at Newport in 1965. The electric Dylan controversy was the incident at the Newport Folk Festival where folk singer Bob Dylan first went electric, by playing alongside an electric blues band in concert. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941), is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ...

External link

• Festival on the IMDB