Bob Dylan 1963 Newport Folk Festival Concert Program....

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Bob Dylan 1963 Newport Folk Festival Concert Program. An original, robust 40-page concert program for the famed Newport Folk Festival in 1963, featuring a very young but fast-rising Bob Dylan in several performances. One biography observed that Dylan "arrived at Newport '63 an underground sensation and left the weekend a national star."

The fun purple-and-green cover was painted by folkie artist Eric Von Schmidt, who also designed the well-known Dylan/Baez spring 1965 concert poster. Inside there's a long, touching piece written to his Minnesota friend Dave Glover, a Columbia Records full-page ad showing his first two albums, and a small photograph & bio that was still perpetuating the myth that Dylan hailed from Gallup, New Mexico among other places.

Other talents found in the program include Joan Baez, Peter Paul & Mary, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, John Lee Hooker, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Dave Van Ronk, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Ian & Sylvia, John Hammond Jr., Ramblin' Jack Elliott, the New Lost City Ramblers, Mississippi John Hurt, Maybelle Carter and Tom Paxton, among many others.

Measures 8 ½" x 11" and grades to Very Good Plus condition. With programs, it's often the same old story... the front & back covers are a little roughed up for merely existing for over 60 years... whereas all of the inside pages are crispy mint. Such is the case here. The front cover has a couple indentations and light scuffs, all in the purple hat; the back cover has grime & dirt and a diagonal crease in the lower right corner. But almost zero of this damage appears on the inside pages.

From the Archives of Charlie Rothschild. COA from Heritage Auctions.

Charlie Rothschild is a music manager with a career that spanned decades. In his early career, Charlie booked musical acts at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village, most notably Bob Dylan in September 1961, Dylan's first paid gig in New York City. He went on to work for renowned manager Albert Grossman (Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, Janis Joplin). As a manager, touring manager and concert promoter himself, Charlie worked alongside folk and rock 'n' roll greats Bob Dylan, the Velvet Underground, Gordon Lightfoot, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul & Mary, Allen Ginsberg, Ian & Sylvia, The Clancy Brothers, Odetta, The Fugs and Pearls Before Swine, among others. Charlie also ran the storied 1960's New York City music venue Balloon Farm, before going out on his own in 1972.

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