- Title: MLF-51
- Summary: NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL INTERVIEWS - GEORGE WEIN: FILMMAKER MURRAY LERNER INTERVIEW NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL ORGANIZER/PROMOTER GEORGE WEIN
- Description:01:00:03 - CONCERT PROMOTER AND MUSICIAN GEORGE WEIN DISCUSSES THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL - WHY HE STARTED THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL - DETAILS ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF THE FOLK AND JAZZ FESTIVALS 01:02:58 - GEORGE WEIN TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH PETE SEEGER TO RE-START THE FOLK FESTIVAL IN 1963 -TALKS ABOUT THE FINANCES - EVERYONE WAS PAID $50 EACH A REGARDLESS OF HOW BOG A STAR THEY WERE 01:03:55 - GEORGE WEIN ON JOAN BAEZ 0- HER EARLY YEARS AND HER ASSOCIATION AT THE EARLY FESTIVALS 01:04:57 - WEIN TALKS ABOUT HOW BAEZ WAS MADE FAMOUS AT THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL..SHE WAS THE IDEAL PERFORMER THAT - THE POSTER GIRL FOR THE FOLK MOVEMENT 01:06:26 - GEORGE WEIN ON BOB DYLAN'S EARLY DAYS AND HIS ASSOCIATION WITH THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL - THE FOLK PROTEST ERA - HOW THE FESTIVAL INFLUENCED THE COUNTRY AND CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 01:08:11 - GEORGE WEIN TALKS ABOUT THE BEHIND THE SCENES CONFLICTS - FIST FIGHT BETWEEN ALLAN LOMAX AND ALBERT GROSSMAN OVER PAUL BUTTERFIEND - THE BATTLES BETWEEN THE PURISTS AND NON-PURISTS 01:10:05 - ABOUT THE FOLK MUSIC MOVEMENT AND PETE SEEGE'S' ROLE IN IT ALL - GREAT ADMIRATION FOR PETE SEEGER 01:11:10 - " FOR 6 OR 7 YEARS EVERY YEAR THERE WAS A LITTLE UTOPIA IN THE WORLD - THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL" - THE FOLK MOVEMENT 01:12:52 - TALKS ABOUT DYLAN AND HOW THE MUSIC CHANGED WHEN DYLAN STARTED PLAYING ELECTRIC MUSIC - IT CHANGED THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE FOLK FESTIVAL MORE ABOUT THE MOMENT BOB DYLAN PLAYED WITH THE ELECTRIC BAND AT THE FOLK FESTIVAL 01:15:25 - TALKS ABOUT BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN SELLING OUT ELEVEN NIGHTS AT SHEA STADIUM 600 THOUSAND PEOPLE 01:16:19 - TALKS ABOUT HOW JAZZ RECORDS RARELY SOLD 500,000 RECORDS AND HOW ROCK AND POP SOLD A LOT MORE 01:17:21 - TALKS ABOUT NEWPORT IN THE LATE 1960S, JONI MITCHELL, JAMES TAYLOR 01:17:57 - THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL WAS 99% WHITE PEOPLE EXCEPT FOR THE PERFORMERS 01:19:17 - TALKS ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS AND HOW THAT WAS A PART OF THE FOLK MOVEMENT - SOMETHING THEY WANTED TO DO 01:20:42 - WHY DID FOLK MUSIC BECOME THE SPRINGBOARD FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT? - THERE WAS A REACTION AGAINST LATE 1950'S POP MUSIC - PEOPLE WANTED SOMETHING REAL - FOLK MUSIC SUPPLIED AN ALTERNATIVE TO POP MUSIC 01:22:44 - FOLK MUSIC " REACHES IN" IT BRINGS PEOPLE TO IT - IT HAS A MESSAGE THAT =YOUNG PEOPLE RELATED TO 01:26:05 - TALKS ABOUT HOW GREAT MUSIC IN GENERAL AND THE DEPTH OF ITS COMMUNICATION AND EMOTION IS WHAT COUNTS 01:26:51 - GEORGE WEIN TALKS ABOUT HOW THE FOLK AUDIENCES AND JAZZ AUDIENCES WERE DIFFERENT - THE FOLK AUDIENCE HAD A CLOSER REACTION TO THE ARTISTS 01:28:15 - PETE SEEGER UNDERSTOOD THAT TO REACH PEOPLE GET THEM TO SING AND THIS IS SOMETHING THEY DID AT NEWPORT - EVERYONE SANG TOGETHER " IT WAS MARVELOUS "
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2010
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2010s
- File Name: MLF-51