NEWPORT, Rhode Island, 26-28 July 1963
Freebody Park, Newport Folk Festival

            

     The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival.
    The festival was held annually from 1959 to 1969 on Rhode Island, barring two years of inactivity in 1961 and 1962. Following a 16-year hiatus, the festival returned to Newport in 1985, and it has been held at Fort Adams State Park annually since then. 

    1963 is the first visit of Bob Dylan to the Newport Folk Festival. He will come back again in 1964 and 1965.

Below: 38-page programme; it features a short bio on Dylan with a photo, a page and a half essay by Dylan titled ‘For Dave Glover’ with another photograph, a full page Columbia Records advertisement for Dylan and Pete Seeger, the words and music for ‘Blowin in the Wind’ with a short comment by Dylan, and a listing of performances mentioning Dylan’s. You can see the whole programme on .pdf here.

Thank you to Robert Schlockoff.

    





    

Below: Programme leaflet/ticket order form. 14" x 8 1/2", folded twice to 3 1/2" x 8 1/2 ".
Documents: https://swinginpiggy.wordpress.com/concert-programs/.

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Below: Saturday 27 July, Afternoon Workshop ticket, signed by Joan Baez.

    

Bob Dylan performed every day of the Festival:

Friday July 26 1963:

-Evening Concert

With God On Our Side *

Only A Pawn In Their Game

Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues *

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall *

-Evening finale

Blowin' In The Wind

We Shall Overcome (trad.)

 

Saturday 27 July 1963:

-Porch of Newport Casino,  -Afternoon workshop

North Country Blues

With God On Our Side (with Joan Baez)

 

Sunday 28 July 1963:

-Lawn of Newport Casino, -Topical songs workshop

Who Killed Davey Moore?

Masters Of War *

Playboys And Playgirls

-Evening (Guest at Joan Baez' set).

With God On Our Side

 

* =  Not in general circulation. Source: Olof's Files