Blues Workshop

John Byrne Cooke

PHOTOGRAPHY

Image No. 63-4N-3: Blues Workshop

1963 Newport Folk Festival

The much-beloved Mississippi John Hurt plays for an attentive crowd at a daytime blues workshop. Behind John, New York bluesman Dave van Ronk appears to be singing along, while Brownie McGhee looks on.

Another photo of Dave Van Ronk

Photo of Brownie McGhee with Sonny Terry


Mississippi John Hurt Mississippi John looking on Mississippi John Hurt onstage A Tip of the Hat