Folk Festival At Newport 1959 - Volume 1

The Newport Folk Festival was founded in 1959 by George Wein, who had already established the successful Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island a few years earlier. The festival featured folk, blues, country, and bluegrass musicians and, in its initial run between 1959 and 1970 (there were no festivals in 1961 and 1962), introduced future stars of the commercial folk revival like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan as well as giving old blues and folk performers like Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt, and others a platform to reach a wider audience.

Excerpts from the sleeve notes:

"Irish song and lore were eloquently represented at Newport by TOMMY MAKEM. Steeped in the musical and poetical tradition of the Gael, he is an artist as indigenous to his world as Big Bill Broonzy was to his. He is an actor as well as a singer; the two crafts are juicily fused in the songs. No "prettiness", no pretense in his performance, he reveals himself; and in a larger sense, his verdant heritage. PATRICK CLANCY about whom all this is equally true, is heard here in "Mountain Dew"."

Tracks:

Side One

The Bells of Rhymney - Pete Seeger (Accompanying himself on the 12-string guitar & banjo)
One Grain of Sand & Abiyoyo - Pete Seeger (Accompanying himself on the 12-string guitar & banjo)
Hey Daroma - Martha Schlamme (Accompanied by Frank Hamilton, guitar)
There's a Hole in the Bucket - Martha Schlamme (Accompanied by Frank Hamilton, guitar)
Que Bonita Bandeira - Martha Schlamme (Accompanied by Frank Hamilton, guitar)

Side Two

Lonesome Traveller - Leon Bibb (Accompanied by John Staubeur, guitar, and Eric Weisberg, bass)
Every Night When the Sun Goes In - Leon Bibb (Accompanied by John Staubeur, guitar, and Eric Weisberg, bass)
Times are Getting Hard - Leon Bibb (Accompanied by John Staubeur, guitar, and Eric Weisberg, bass)
Sinner Man - Leon Bibb (Accompanied by John Staubeur, guitar, and Eric Weisberg, bass)
Cobbler's Song - Tom Makem
Mountain Dew - Pat Clancy (Accompanied by Tom Makem on the penny-whistle and Pete Seeger, banjo)
Careless Love - Pete Seeger (Accompanying himself on the banjo)

Folk Festival At Newport 1959 - Volume 1
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