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The Newport Folk Festival imagined a more equitable world — can that dream be revived?

JL;DR SUMMARY "Newport & The Great Folk Dream," a new documentary by Robert Gordon, explores the Newport Folk Festival's pivotal years between 1963 and 1966. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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DocumentaryActivismCultural DiversityBob DylanSocial ChangeFolk Music1960sJewish InfluencesNewport Folk FestivalRobert Gordon

Places mentioned

Newport, Rhode Island, United States
"Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963."
Greenport, New York, United States
"CEO of the Historic Films Archive based in Greenport, NY."
Nigeria
"the Ishangi Dance Troupe from Nigeria."
Canada
"Ralph Rinzler and volunteer Bob Jones traveled throughout Canada and the American South."
Louisiana, United States
"recruit local performers, such as Cajun French musicians from Louisiana."
Long Island, New York, United States
"beyond what he knew growing up in the suburbs of Eastern Long Island."
Hamptons, New York, United States
"Newport & The Great Folk Dream will be showing at the Hamptons International Film Festival."

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