Festival (1967 film)
Festival is a 1967 American documentary film about the Newport Folk Festival, written, produced, and directed by Murray Lerner.
Filmed over the course of three festivals at Newport, the film features performances by Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Spider John Koerner, Theodore Bikel, Hobart Smith, the Osborne Brothers, The Staple Singers, Mimi and Richard Fariña, Donovan, Sacred Harp Singers, Georgia Sea Island Singers, Mike Bloomfield, Ronnie Gilbert, Moving Star Hall Singers, Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers, and many others.
It also features the Bob Dylan's 1965 electric set at Newport. Festival was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
