Watch Bob Dylan Make His Debut at the Newport Folk Festival in Colorized 1963 Footage

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In July 1963, Bob Dylan made his first appear­ance at the New­port Folk Fes­ti­val. On open­ing night, he cap­ti­vat­ed a crowd of 13,000 with a per­for­mance of “Blowin’ in the Wind,” accom­pa­nied by Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Peter, Paul, and Mary. Then, the fol­low­ing day, Dylan deliv­ered a ren­di­tion of “With God On Our Side” (a duet with Joan Baez) and per­formed “North Coun­try Blues” solo, a song that would lat­er appear on The Times They Are a‑Changin’ in 1964. You can watch these his­toric per­for­mances in orig­i­nal black-and-white footage. (Sim­ply click the links in the text.) Or, thanks to the YouTube chan­nel Toca o Dis­co, you can expe­ri­ence the moment in col­or. As a 22-year-old Bob Dylan sings, the audi­ence lis­tens in rapt atten­tion, tak­ing in his pow­er­ful folk song about the harsh real­i­ties of min­ing and indus­tri­al­iza­tion. Take note above.

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