Newport Folk Festival

The Newport Folk Festival is an annual folk music festival, held for the first time in Newport in Rhode Iceland (USA ) 1959.

History

Was justified, the festival of Joyce and George Wein, who had already founded in 1954, the Newport Jazz Festival in life, and Albert Grossman, who later became manager of Bob Dylan. After a two year hiatus (1960/1961) it was continued with support from Pete Seeger and Theodore Bikel.

Many of the most important blues and folk musicians have appeared at the Newport Festival - including John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Sam Lightnin ' Hopkins. Many other well-known artists had their first major appearance in Newport, so about 1959 Joan Baez, Bob Dylan 1963, 1967 Arlo Guthrie, Leonard Cohen, Pentangle 1968 and 1969 James Taylor. Dylan was booed in 1965 in Newport, when he appeared with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and picked up the electric guitar. Only in 2002 Dylan came back to Newport.

After the folk-rock lost in the late 1960s in importance in the international music business, the festival got into trouble and was not held in 1971. Only in 1985 it was revived and is still one of the main events of folk music in the States; together with the Philadelphia Folk Festival, which takes place every year without interruption since 1960.

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