Festival! (DVD, 2005)

This is a great find. Lots of wonderful performances by Dylan, Donovan, Pete Seeger and many others.

I bought it because I enjoy any thing Dylan but have never received it. I notified the seller that this was never received but they weren't responsible.

Get out the black frame glasses, the button down shirts and push the memory button. This DVD takes us older boomers back to our innocent youth. Though shot with just 2 cameras most of the time (in black and white) and the sound quality is a bit AM radio, this is a trip down memory lane that more than makes up for those issues.

I received the DVD but didn't realize the DVD was produced poorly. Anyway Thanks for the Service. Although the documentary style back in those days was primitive at best.

This dvd would be worth purchasing even if you only get to see and hear just one of the many excellent songs and singers we are so lucky were preserved on film back then. Some of my faves include Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, Johnny Cash, Odetta, Howlin' Wolf, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Paul Butterfield, Donovan, The Staple Singers and Pete Seeger. Thank you Newport Folk Festival!

Not to say that audience and performer interviews and background footage between sets don't add to the presentation, but I found some (just some) of it a bit repetitive. And I find myself fast forwarding through some of the chatter I'd rather not listen to again as I watch the show again and again. Somewhat annoying, but in the end the music and spirit of Newport carry the day.

Heads up about another one like this one: the Stax/Volt Revue which features a top notch group of R&B artists in a live concert that was given in Europe in 1967. One tune after another, one act after another with who is arguably the greatest closer of all time--Otis Redding--closing the show. Here in the "Extras" section we can choose to watch the whole concert again but this time with added insider-type commentary over the music which plays quietly in the background and that's quite interesting and enlightening. Thank you Stax/Volt and Reelin' In The Years Productions!