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Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger 1963 Brandeis University Festival Concert Program....
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Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger 1963 Brandeis University Festival Concert Program. An original eight-page "Creative Arts Festival" program from May 5-12, 1963 at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Bob Dylan, in the very month his breakthrough Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album was released, appeared on Friday, May 10 at 8:30 PM. The program explains with an asterisk that this gig was "Presented by Folklore Productions."On the bill with Dylan was Jesse Fuller, who wrote the first track on Dylan's debut album the year before: "You're No Good." Also present were Jean Redpath, Don Stover and the Lilly Bros. and the Silver Leaf Gospel Singers.
This was not a folk festival; although Pete Seeger appeared the following evening, all the other presentations were in various fields of the arts, such as a screening of the movie Hamlet and a Japanese music and dance performance, to name just two.
Dylan's girlfriend Suze Rotolo, folksinger Eric Von Schmidt and New York Times writer Robert Shelton were all present for the show. Just 48 hours after this concert, the Ed Sullivan Show rejected Dylan's rehearsal performance of "Talkin' John Birch Society Blues," causing the singer to walk out on the TV program altogether, a major early stand of integrity in Dylan's career that would be hallmarked by many of them.
This blue-ink-on-blue-paper program was printed in an unusual configuration; when opened up, the next two pages are somewhat shorter than the cover, but then the whole thing opens up into an 11" x 16" day-by-day schedule that could be posted on a bulletin board. But elsewhere inside, there are three paragraphs describing the concept behind the festival, and a page of credits.
Measures 5 1/2" x 8 5/8" (before opening up) and grades to Very Good condition. Just some light toning and typical small handling creases from the passage of time. The program was once folded in half vertically, so that soft crease remains present on all panels, but breaks no color and is hardly noticeable. COA from Heritage Auctions.
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2021 May 1 - 2 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature Auction - Dallas #7238 (go to Auction Home page)
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