On Tuesday, Sept. 2 at 7 pm, the Library invites you to a free screening of the documentary film Festival! , about the Newport Folk Festival in the early 1960s.
Festival! is a terrific (and not often seen) concert film with stirring performances by Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Peter Paul and Mary, Son House, Donovan, Pete Seeger, and many more folk legends in the early 60s. It's also a nostalgia-inducing snapshot of an era just before the "youth culture" of the 1960s took hold. Director Murray Lerner interviewed the young folk fans in the audience, who are idealistic, well-educated, and just starting to question whether they want to lead the same kind of lives as their parents.
The film captures the dramatic episode at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when Bob Dylan "went electric," upsetting the folk fans who had come to think of him as their favorite artist. For many people, the moment that Bob Dylan "left folk music" is the day that the "real" 1960s began. From then on, electric rock and roll would be the voice of the youth culture.
Festival! directed by Murray Lerner
Tuesday, Sept. 2, 7 pm
Free admission. Suitable for all ages.
Hosted by author Steve Otfinofski.
Stratford Library, 2203 Main St.,
Stratford CT (just off I-95's exit 32)
For directions or more information, see the library's website at http://www.stratfordlibrary.org/ or call us at 385-4164/385-4161.
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