In a move that outraged folk purists, Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. But was the crowd's anger ...

Throughout the early sixties, the Newport Folk Festival provided a spotlight for folk royalty like Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and Howlin’ Wolf, under the assumed context that they’d uphold the festival’s ...

Playing the festival over a dozen times since her debut and then headlining stint, she remained a big-ticket name on the folk ...

Barry Goldberg, keyboardist who performed with Bob Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, has died. He was 83 years old. Reps for Goldberg confirm to PEOPLE that he died on on Wednesday, Jan. 22, ...

Today, Bob Dylan is considered one of the most influential cultural figures of his time. But you wouldn’t have seen that coming had you seen him getting booed onstage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ...

It was a three song set that helped the change the course of pop music history: Bob Dylan ‘going electric’ at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Exactly fifty years after the event, the festival’s ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Gillian Welch, Dawes, Robyn Hitchcock and others closed out the Newport Folk Festival with a celebration of Bob Dylan and the moment he went electric there 50 years ago. The ...

James Mangold likes to start his movies with a bang. “He wants to make sure that the people don’t get initially bored with the movie’s opening,” A Complete Unknown supervising sound editor Donald ...

"Newport and the Great Folk Dream" ends with Dylan's now-famous performance in 1965 in which he plays an electric instead of acoustic guitar -- upsetting folk music purists -- leading to booing from ...