"A Complete Unknown" stars Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan during his rise to fame in the '60s. The movie's climax is Dylan's performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Dylan performed with an ...

On July 25, 1965, at the Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan surprised a crowd of nearly 100,000 fans and did what nobody could ...

One of the key professionals involved in the 1965 Newport Folk Festival has set the record straight regarding Bob Dylan’s famous set. Joe Boyd was behind the sound board at the festival, tasked with ...

Acoustic purists declared war—and rock history was made ...

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 ...

Ah, love. That fickle foe. And when mixed with the idea of celebrity? Watch out. By the mid-1960s perhaps no one knew this dynamic better than the Duluth, Minnesota-born songwriter, Bob Dylan. Known ...

A visual history of the Newport Jazz and Folk festivals, from their inception in the 1950s by George Wein through riots, ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — A pivotal moment in music history — now a major motion picture — has closer connections to Rhode Island than you might think. Bob Dylan: Whether or not you’ve heard his music, ...

Memphis filmmaker Robert Gordon says his new movie, “Newport & the Great Folk Dream," is a "reminder of what the Statue of ...

Barry Goldberg, a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in the 1960s, including the notorious 1965 Newport Folk Festival concert ...

In August 1963, a yellow Telecaster emerged from Fender’s original California factory, ending up two years later in the hands of a gifted young guitarist named Michael Bloomfield — who bought it after ...