I would usually offer freebies but I would like to expand my DVD collection of folk heroes. I have the following for trade:

Festival! DVD
- 1967 documentary of 1963-1966 Newport Folk Festivals, filmed, directed, and produced by Murray Lerner.
- 95 mins. - NTSC, resolution 720x480
- this version is brand new ("hot off the presses"), fully authored with menu and chapters, by a kind soul not too far from here

Most of us have seen, or at least are familar with, this priceless "period piece."
Festival! documents the early-mid 1960 cultural movement, as reflected in the music
performed during three years of the Newport Folk Festival. Thus far the film has been
available only via very rare "public viewings".

Festival! includes concert footage of and interviews with these artists among others:
Joan Baez, Theodore Bikel, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, The Butterfield Blues Band,
Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Richard and Mimi Fariña, Freedom Singers,
Ronnie Gilbert, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band, Mel Lyman,
Brownie McGee and Sonny Terry, Odetta, Peter Paul and Mary, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, and the Staple Singers.

Details from Alan Fraser's "Searching for a Gem" site --

Dylan content includes the following:

R-0041 All I Really Want To Do - recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 26 Jul 1964 (part of the performance on 24 Jul 1965 is also shown)

R-0300 Maggie's Farm - recorded live with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 25 Jul 1965

R-0304 Mr. Tambourine Man - recorded live (solo acoustic) at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 25 Jul 1965

The film also has fragments from the band soundcheck: organ riffs, Maggie's Farm and Like A Rolling Stone.

"It is a very remarkable film as it very obviously serves as a forerunner to the festival films Monterey Pop and Woodstock in the same way these later bigger festivals followed the annual Newport Jazz and Folk festivals. The film gives a very good impression of the folk music scene to which Dylan came and went and to which he belonged for several years. The editing is perfect, especially the build-up of the now historic scenes featuring Dylan’s 1965 electric appearance alternated with performances by traditional folk acts. Only from this footage and how it was edited for the film you can understand that Dylan had to force his way out of the scene by playing loud electric music."

http://www.searchingforagem.com/VHS-DVD.htm

Thanks,
Christian
music.sherlock@gmail.com

Anyone with BitTorrent can now download this DVD here: http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=25037&dllist=1#seeders