Running on the opposite coast from Newport from 1964-1971, The Big Sur Folk Festival was a different beast entirely. Starting off as a series of workshops and impromptu sets by Joan Baez, Mimi & Richard FariƱa and some of their contemporaries, The Big Sur Folk Festival was intentionally kept a small, intimate event withContinue reading “Festival Friday: The Big Sur Folk Festivals (1964-1971)”
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Festival Friday: Kralingen Music Festival 1970 (The Holland Pop Festival)
Europe had its fair share of phenomenal rock festivals during the late ’60s and ’70s, from the Isle of Wight to Rome and Rotterdam, Holland. From June 26th-28th, 1970, 100,000 people gathered to hear sounds as diverse as Santana, Soft Machine and Pentangle to name but a few. The Kralingen festival went so smoothly andContinue reading “Festival Friday: Kralingen Music Festival 1970 (The Holland Pop Festival)”