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Rhode Island-where it's still cool, man; see Music, Newport Blues...
...involve himself" in U.S. politics, praised New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller ("a dedicated, honest and hard-working man") even as he disagreed with Rocky's sharp criticism of U.S. defenses. Next day the President flew from steaming Washington to the breeze-cooled summer White House at Newport, on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, for a month-long working vacation...
...professional practitioners making a handsome living where there were perhaps half a dozen five years ago. Last week, in far from mute testimony that folk music is now grown up enough to have its own status symbols, some of the most popular of the artists turned up in Newport's Freebody Park for the city's second annual Folk Festival; others arrived in Berkeley, Calif, for a five-day festival that each day attracted 1,200 ardent fans...
According to experts, the basic cause of the bull market in folk music-which has been coming on ever since World War II-is the do-it-yourself trend: folk audiences, unlike jazz audiences, like to participate in the music they admire. At Newport last week, many spectators brought along banjos and guitars with their sleeping bags and sat around campfires on the beaches strumming far into the night. (In the last three years, U.S. banjo sales have increased...
...Joan Baez (pronounced buy-ezz) is a 19-year-old Boston-born beauty of Mexican-Irish descent who made her first big splash at last year's Newport Festival and has since been tagged as one of folk music's most promising talents. In her soft, clear voice, she sings both ballads such as Barbara Allen and rhythm numbers such as We Are Crossing the River Jordan, bringing to each a fine rhythmic sense and quantities of fresh charm. So far, she is best known in the coffeehouses of Harvard Square, where she sings, she says, to troubled...