bob dylan set off a wave of controversy with his performance at the 1965 newport folk festival.
who set off a wave of controversy with his performance at the 1965 newport folk festival?
bob dylan
pete seeger was one of the earliest backers of bob dylan and was responsible for urging a&r man john hammond to produce dylan's first lp on columbia, and for inviting him to perform at the newport folk festival, of which seeger was a board member. there was a widely repeated story that seeger was so upset over the extremely loud amplified sound that dylan, backed by members of the butterfield blues band, brought into the 1965 newport folk festival that he threatened to disconnect the equipment. there are multiple versions of what went on, some fanciful. what is certain is that tensions had been running high between dylan's manager albert grossman and festival board members (who besides seeger also included theodore bikel, bruce jackson, alan lomax, festival mc peter yarrow, and george wein) over the scheduling of performers and other matters. two days earlier, there had been a scuffle and brief exchange of blows between grossman and alan lomax, and the board in an emergency session had voted to ban grossman from the grounds but had backed off when george wein pointed out that grossman also managed highly popular draws odetta and peter, paul and mary. seeger has been portrayed as a folk "purist" who was one of the main opponents to dylan's "going electric". but when asked in 2001 about how he recalled his "objections" to the electric style, he said:
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bullet::::- in 2014, the newport folk festival was named music festival of year by pollstar.





















































bullet::::- in 2015, the newport folk festival was named music festival of year by pollstar.





















































section::::albums recorded at the festival.





















































bullet::::- "the newport folk festival, 1959" [3 volumes] - vanguard records





















































bullet::::- "the kingston trio live at newport" - vanguard records (1959 performance released in 1994)





















































bullet::::- "the newport folk festival, 1960" [2 volumes] - vanguard records





















































section::::albums recorded at the festival.:albums issued by vanguard records after the 1963 newport folk festival.
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