Newport Fest on Film
At the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor
The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present “Newport Folk Festival: A Retrospective Film Screening” tomorrow at 8 p.m. Murray Lerner, the Academy Award-winning director of “From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China,” filmed the Newport festival from 1963 to 1966, when it featured such iconic performers as Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Mississippi John Hurt, Johnny Cash, and the Staple Singers.
Joe Lauro, a musician, music archivist, and filmmaker, will host the program, for which Mr. Lerner has assembled footage never before seen as well as excerpts from his 1967 film, “Festival,” which was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary feature. Tickets are $15.