New from Solzy at the Movies: Newport & the Great Folk Dream – Venice 2025
#NewportFolkFestival #film #movies #documentary #music
https://solzyatthemovies.com/2025/09/05/newport-the-great-folk-dream/
New from Solzy at the Movies: Newport & the Great Folk Dream – Venice 2025
#NewportFolkFestival #film #movies #documentary #music
https://solzyatthemovies.com/2025/09/05/newport-the-great-folk-dream/
See Bleachers Bring Out Hayley Williams, Jeff Tweedy During All-Star Newport Folk Fest Set
“Newport has been amazing at giving us a platform to actually start to provide some [#ClimateChange] solutions for people. A lot of this comes down to reducing the amount that we’re in our #cars. A big part of this tour for us was looking at #infrastructure all up and down the east coast.
“This is a beautiful sight to see 2,000 bicyclists outside one of the best musical festivals in the country. This needs to be the standard for what we see all throughout the country and all throughout the world.”—Jeff Gorman, #IlliterateLight #musician #ClimateActivist #BikeAdvocate
#PeoplePowered #LiveMusic #concerts #festivals #NewportFolk #NewportFolkFestival #NewportFolkFest2025
#MusicFestivals #Newport #RhodeIsland #BikeTooter #cycling #transportation #ClimateAction
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/rock-duo-bikes-700-miles-to-newport-folk-festival/
The annual Newport Folk Festival kicked off on Friday. Many festival attendees ride their bikes to the festival to promote reducing carbon emissions. Jeff Gorman, who is part of the rock duo Illiterate Light, joins CBS News to share his experience biking 700 miles to the festival.
These thunderstorms came in quick and hard on the mainland in South County. Stay dry and safe out there Newport
#rhodeisland #newport #newportfolk #livemusic #newportfolkfestival
Today in History July 25, 1965: Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, accompanied by Mike Bloomfield and Barry Goldberg, from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. It was the first time he had performed with electric instruments and signaled a major change in folk and rock music. Many purists in the audience booed. Pete Seeger said he wanted to take an axe to the cables because it was so loud and distorted. He later claimed that the sound quality was poor and he merely wanted audience members to hear Dylan’s voice. Dylan claimed that Seeger’s response was like a dagger in his heart. In 2013, Dylan’s Newport guitar sold for $965,000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPfsUlFxhrI
#workingclass #LaborHistory #bobdylan #newportfolkfestival #folkmusic #peteseeger
July 25, 1965 — Dylan shocks the world.
July 25, 1965, at the Newport Folk Fesitval. Orpheus goes electric and the folkie tight-asses lose their collective minds. Dylan gets boos but doesn't give a shit. He turns to the band and says, "play it loud." Mike Bloomfield on guitar and Al Kooper on organ join the fun. #bobdylan #newportfolkfestival #60smusic #folkrock #orpheus #music #rockmusic #musicsky #musiciansky #classicrock
http://robinbannks.com/2025/07/25/july-25-1965-dylan-shocks-the-world/
What’s on our mind? Newport Folk Festival! We’re in California and have never been. We enjoy it vicariously via our daughter attending (she lives much closer to Rhode Island now, in Connecticut). Among the very special music she’s enjoyed at Newport was Joni Mitchell in 2022. https://youtu.be/9evpH6yjxrI (ICYMI, Duck Player “lets you watch videos on YouTube without privacy-invading ads, and keeps what you watch from impacting your recommendations.” https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help)
If you’re at 2025 #NewportFolkFestival #NewportFolk, we’ll enjoy your posts from there too. Love to see pics of 2025 bike valet station too, and #IlliterateLight bike-powered stage. https://sfba.social/@bikemonterey/114700484697807901
Now batting, Kevin Morby Morby Morby
Fun time at the first ever Newport Folk Fest All Star Game at Cardines Field. Team Goodman vs Team Morby all to benefit free music lessons for RI youth.
Margo Price sang the anthem, The Deslondes set up in the right field press box to play Centerfield and Take Me Out to the Ballgame and Jay Sweet slingshotted free t shirts over the stands and into the street.
Oh, and John C Reilly as PA announcer!