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...hair that should never have been let out alone, they looked alike. You could tell the boys from the girls only because some of them had names like Betty and Cindy Lou. They were all folk-song fans, come to Rhode Island last week for the fourth annual Newport Folk Music Festival...
...Mississippi' song," she said, introducing Hey, Nelly Nelly). More important, she exhibited a fine facility for dramatic phrasing and a rich, bell-clear alto voice stronger than Joan Baez' and in some ways more interesting. Her ecstatic audience was not surprised, for Judy Collins only proved in Newport last week what her legions of album-buying fans have known for some time -that she is a mere maid of constant sorrow no longer but a major contender for the feminine folk-music crown, second only to Baez among today's flock of urban folk stylists and perhaps...
...find hotel rooms, passed up the damp beaches, and bedded down instead in city parks and private yards, swarmed through the business area, blocking local traffic and preventing residents from getting to the stores. As a result, the city council banned Freebody Park as a future festival site. Newport appreciates the business, spokesmen announced last week, but wants the folkniks farther out of town...
Pete Seeger remarking on a folk music festival he once attended in Ireland, pointed out that "there are no large groups like this one [the Sunday night concert at Newport], but wherever there is a fiddler or a balled singer the people gather, and that's their festival." And although most of what one hears of Newport is record crowds and jammed facilities, the Festival is more than a series of concerts; it, too, has this sense of participation that Seeger noted in Ireland. The people who come to Newport come to listen, but they also come to play...
...folk music, provide anyone who is interested with a chance to listen to their favorite people play and explain their individual styles and techniques. The workshops are of every conceivable kind--blues, topical songs, the autoharp, you name it. And for many, they provide the main attraction of Newport...