7 Best Moments of the Newport Folk Fest

August 3, 2009 – Roughly equidistant from New York and Boston, Newport, RI, is an old-money vacation town where, for one summer weekend a year, flashy cars, big yachts, and bigger estates share attention with folksingers like Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, whose lyrics preach about the dangers of a lavish lifestyle. It's an irony that's survived for the 50 years of the Newport Folk Fest, the event where Bob Dylan notoriously went electric in 1965. …
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