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"Before Woodstock and Monterey Pop, there was Festival. From 1963 through 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to document a thriving, idealistic musical movement as it reached its peak as a popular phenomenon. Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Cash, the Staple Singers, Pete Seeger, Son House, and Peter, Paul and Mary were just a few of the legends who shared the stage at Newport, treating audiences to a range of folk...

The tribute concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 1970, a fundraiser for the California Chapter of the Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease, now known as the Hereditary Disease Foundation, celebrates the work of folk singer and songwriter, Woody Guthrie, and has never been seen before.