At The Newport Folk Festival 1965

Designed for Michael Carabetta
Text and photographs by Michael Carabetta

From the preface by Michael Carabetta:

There are episodes in one’s life that don’t surface right away. It was 35 years later when I found the photographs cleaning out the house after my father’s death. They were waiting in an old leather satchel, the snapshots and negatives still in a yellow Kodak envelope marked “Newport 1965”. As I flipped through them I began to wonder what my life would have been like without the influence of folk music. This music, both old and new, accompanied me on various passages of my life. I took my guitar when I was drafted into the army and played folk music when I deployed to Vietnam. My son learned to play this music on that guitar. I still play this music on that guitar today.
At the Newport Folk Festival 1965 is a memoir of my experience with folk music before, during, and after Newport... The significance of the 1965 festival in the annals of American popular music, where Dylan broke ranks with the folk purists and plugged in, was an act that has been noted by journalists, filmmakers, and musicians. In that moment Dylan thrust me—and his audience—from folk music traditions to an electrified future. This is a book that captures what it was like in the eyes of a young follower of folk music as it transitioned from pure folk to folk rock. Something was happening to the music and I was there as it happened.

80 pages
8 x 11 inches