The 1960s and 1970s saw the rise of the music festival, and a number of documentaries have captured the spirit of these events. Some of the biggest bands at the time played festivals, and ...

If the goal of Ron, Ray, and Bill Foulk was to create a British Woodstock, the numbers would show they succeeded. Estimates claim attendance at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival to be around 600,000 to ...

Folk singer Peter Yarrow was booted from an upstate New York music festival over his 1970 conviction for taking “indecent liberties” with a 14-year-old girl. Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival ...

The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials ...

Fashions from the very first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, April 24, 1970. The Jackie O look, 1970 The Jackie O look at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, 1970 Folky fashion from 1976 ...

Inveterate naysayers will inevitably disparage continuing archive releases by The Doors and, to some degree, it's a point well taken: is there any band with a comparable catalog and a greater ...

A few years ago at Cannes, a number of film critics were quietly informed by the press office that festival president Gilles Jacob would be pleased if they might come by the Salle des Ambassadeurs in ...

The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 was really a sight to behold. Countless now-legendary artists took to the stage in front of crowds of nearly 700,000 counterculture fans. Let’s look at just four ...