January 1966 interview with Folk Singers Peter, Paul and Mary - asked about the NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL, How Folk music has grown and come in to the mainstream of contemporary pop music

Yarrow talks about SEMA civil rights, March On Washington and singing Bob Dylans' TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING 1964 Festival singing WE SHALL OVERCOME together

Noel ( Paul ) talks about field recording and hearing about that in the 1950s
and how Greenwich Village had become a melting pot of Folk Singers of all types Rev Gary Davis, Tom Paxton are mentioned. Talks about the Greenwich Village folk scene - Van Ronk et cetera

Mary Travers talks about Seeger, The Weavers and what started before them, Almanac singers were the forerunners of the Urban Folk singers "Newport is the culmination of it all " talks about Alan Lomax TEXAS CHAIN GANG SINGERS on stage with AXES chopping a log and singing work songs paroled from prison specifically for the festival - talks about the BEERS singers and the diversity of Americana at Newport and talks about DONOVAN and where all the music came from "Newport is like going to the field yourself!

MARY TRAVERS talk about WHY the young people of today absorb and love this folk music - that the society has become synthetic and the youth are looking for purity - the songs are "real" it's attractive to youth because it is not corporate - and it is "real and simple" it can relate to "today" it has nothing to do with a fad

Mary Travers talks about the song TALKING UNION the trio sing it and laugh
Mary talks about Union songs in general " mass media has made everything different - talks about BLOWING IN THE WINd and how mass media transmits songs now that couldn't cak then " now the entire country can be aware that there is a problem not just locally"
general talk about anti-war songs and recent topical songs. -talks about BLOWING IN THE WIND went to number one on the POP charts and that something worthwhile could be said on the POP charts! THE Protest song had arrived

Mary Travers talks about BOB DYLAN " he's not a traditional artist, he's a contemporary artist like we are". talks about the notion that he is "selling out" by using electric instruments

Mary Travers and Paul on why BLOWING IN THE WIND was commercially successful and their other hits

Peter and Mary Travers talks about Folk music " a combination of basic influences....negro tradition, country music and how it got all mixed up.... general talk about folk music - Mary discusses music "it began somewhere long before anyone documented it....."there is no place where it begins or ends..."

mos shots of the trio