Site: Dylan to return to Newport folk fest
05/08/2002
NEWPORT/ 12:05 p.m. -- Bob Dylan is scheduled to return to Newport to
play at the city's folk festival this summer, for the first time in 37
years.
Dylan will appear at the Newport Folk Festival on Aug. 3, according to
the tour date page at his official site,
bobdylan.com.
He last performed at the show on Sunday, July 25, 1965. Starting with an
acoustic set, he then returned to the stage with an electric guitar and
three members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in tow and lit into
Maggie's Farm, to the boos of the folkies who expected a resprise of the
1963 Dylan-Joan Baez croonfest.
The Newport Folk Festival site says "The 2002 artist line-up will be
announced here and in Newport on May 9th. Tickets will go on sale for
subscribers on May 10th." The "subscribers" are those who've signed up
for the mailing list.
For more on Dylan's appearance and a first-person memory, see projo.com
staffer Sheila Lennon's weblog,
Subterranean Homepage News.
