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At the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, a young Bob Dylan shakes up the folk music scene by making rock electric and the voice of a generation—defining one of the most transformative moments in 20th-century music. presents the 1965 Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, where Bob Dylan first performed publicly with an electric guitar in the seaside resort town of Cape May, New Jersey. Minimal remediation was required, given the resort’s commitment to being designated a National Historic Landmark, as it is a concentration of Victorian architecture and other 19th- and 20th-century architectural motifs.