New York, 1963. 8 1/2" x 11". 40pp., including covers. Bob Dylan's FIRST appearance at the legendary Newport Festival. His album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan had just been released in May and Dylan was just 22 years old and his solo acoustic performance Friday night included With God on Our Side, Talkin' John Birch Society Blues and A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. Peter Paul and Mary then performed an encore of his song Blowin' in the Wind. 

The cover was created by folk artist Eric Von Schmidt, who also designed the well-known Dylan/Baez spring 1965 concert poster. Inside there's a long, touching piece written to his Minnesota friend Dave Glover, a Columbia Records full-page ad showing his first two albums, and a small photograph & bio that was still perpetuating the myth that Dylan hailed from Gallup, New Mexico among other places. Other artists included Joan Baez, Peter Paul & Mary, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, John Lee Hooker, Dave Van Ronk, Ian & Sylvia, John Hammond Jr., Ramblin' Jack Elliott, the New Lost City Ramblers, Mississippi John Hurt, among many others.