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“A woman who believed in a young Joni Mitchell's music brought her to the Newport Folk Festival for the first time in 1967, and another brought the 78-year-old legend back for a historic set to close the Rhode Island fest this year.”

“It was the same as seeing kids on Harlem River Drive on the hottest day in the summer, and somebody opens up a fire hydrant with cold water. It was just glee!”

“Wait a minute, we’re not a fringe element. There’s millions of us!”

“I proceeded to tie-dye everything I owned.”

You improvise!

“It was a completely surreal happening. They expected 60,000 people which would have been big anyway, but by the time I got there, there were 520,000.”