36/47

Story

At the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, a young Bob Dylan shook up the folk music scene by switching to electric and playing rock as the voice of a generation—defining one of the most transformative moments in 20th-century music. Scenes filmed for the 1965 Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, where Bob Dylan first played an electric guitar in public, were filmed in the seaside resort town of Cape May, New Jersey. Minimal compensation was necessary, given the resort’s commitment to being designated a National Historic Landmark due to its concentration of Victorian architecture, as well as other 19th- and 20th-century architectural motifs.