NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL 1963

newport 1963 postcard

The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival.
The festival was held annually from 1959 to 1969 in Freebody Park on Rhode Island, barring two years of inactivity in 1961 and 1962. Following a 16-year hiatus, the festival returned to Newport in 1985, and it has been held at Fort Adams State Park annually since then.

1963 is the first visit of Bob Dylan to the Newport Folk Festival. He will come back in 1964 and 1965.

Bob Dylan played each day of the Festival:

July 26, 1963:

-Evening Concert.

      With God On Our Side *

      Only A Pawn In Their Game

      Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues *

      A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall *

-Evening finale.

      Blowin' In The Wind

      We Shall Overcome (trad.)

27 July 1963:

-Porch of Newport Casino, -Afternoon workshop.

North Country Blues

With God On Our Side (with Joan Baez)

28 July 1963:

-Lawn of Newport Casino, -Topical songs workshop.

      Who Killed Davey Moore?

      Masters Of War *

      Playboys And Playgirls

-Evening (Guest at Joan Baez' set).

With God On Our Side

* = Not in general circulation. Source: Olof's Files

Below: 32 page programme, front cover and Dylan pages (Coll. Robert Schlockoff).

Below: Programme leaflet/ticket order form. 14" x 8 1/2", folded twice to 3 1/2" x 8 1/2 ".
Documents: https://swinginpiggy.wordpress.com/concert-programs/.

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