NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL JULY 22-25 1965

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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.

1965 is a very important year in the history of the Festival. For his third and last visit, on 25 July 1965, Bob Dylan broke the rules and came on stage with an electic band: this was a giant step in his career

Bob Dylan performed twice during the Festival:

24 July 1965 "Contemporary Songs" Afternoon Workshop

All I Really Want To Do

Tombstone Blues

Mr. Tambourine Man

If You Gotta Go, Go Now

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

25 July 1965

Maggie's Farm*

Like A Rolling Stone*

Phantom Engineer (It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry)*

It's all Over Now, Baby Blue

Mr. Tambourine Man

*Bob Dylan (vocal & electric guitar), Michael Bloomfield (electric guitar),
Barry Goldberg (organ), Al Kooper (organ),

Jerome Arnold (bass), Sam Lay (drums).

Festival programme: front cover and Dylan pages. Many thanks to Robert Schlockoff for these scans.

Below: Ticket order leaflet (unfolded, front and back):