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Here is the latest press release with 11 days to go before the big free music event. There may be two stages going on simultaneously.
Remember it's Sunday Oct 25th 9AM to 6PM at Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park. See the lineup. Dennis Banks was scheduled to speak but he had to cancel
out.
Ron
For Immediate Release: 10/12/09
40th Anniversary of Woodstock
Free Concert Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, Sunday, October 25, 2009
Press photos at:
http://www.facebook.com/l/c7259;www.2b1records.com/public_photo/
Event: "West Fest" Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of
Woodstock.
Attraction: 42 bands, 3 stages and 26 poster artists. Solar domes,
Alternative vehicles, Electric bikes, Native American Tipi Village, Sustainable Living Road Show, Conscious Art Gallery, Light Temple, Holistic Healing
Section, Hooper Heaven, Rock'n Green Kids Zone and Eco Village vendors. Narada Michael Walden featuring Vernon Ice Black leading 3,000 guitar players and
closing the show with the Hendrix Experience reenactment and Superstar Jam
Admission: FREE
When: October 25, 2009, 9am to 6pm
Where: Speedway Meadows, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA USA
Producer: 2b1 Multimedia Inc. and the Council of Light in association
with Artie Kornfeld, the original producer of "Woodstock 1969"
Non-Profit: 501-(c) 3
Contact: Boots Hughston, 415-861-1520
http://www.facebook.com/l/c7259;www.2b1records.com/woodstock40sf or woodstock40sf@yahoo.com
Acts confirmed with more to come:
Jefferson Starship; Leslie West (Mountain); Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) with Ronnie Montrose; Lester Chambers (the Chambers Brothers); Country Joe McDonald;
Denny Laine (of Paul McCartney, Wings, Moody Blues); The Original Lowrider Band (with Lee Oskar); Narada Michael Walden featuring Vernon Ice Black leading
3,000 guitar players and closing the show with the Hendrix Experience reenactment Superstar Jam; Greg Errico, Jerry Martini, Cynthia Robinson (From Sly and the
Family Stone); David and Linda La Flamme (It's a Beautiful Day); Michael McClure (Beat Poet) and Ray Manzarek (from the Doors), George Brooks, Kai
Eckhardt, Jay Lane; Lydia Pense and Cold Blood; Terry Haggerty (from the Sons of Champlin); Annie Sampson and her band; Nick Gravenites Band; Harvey Mandel and
the Snake band; Barry "The Fish" Melton (of Country Joe and the Fish); Jerry Miller and Jim Post; Lost Creek Gang and the Merry Pranksters with Ken
Babbs, George Walker, and Mountain Girl; El Chicano; Alameda All Stars (Gregg Allman's Band); Edwin Hawkins and The New Edwin Hawkins Singers "Oh
Happy Day"; David Denny (from Steve Miller) with Prairie Prince (of The Tubes), Diana Mangano (formerly of The Jefferson Starship), Greg Douglas, Carlos
Reyes; PF Sloan; Jimmy McCarty (from Detroit Wheels); Peter Kaukonen (from Jefferson Airplane); John York (from the Byrds); Leigh Stephens (from Blue Cheer);
Kathi McDonald and Friends; Cathy Richardson band; Joli Valenti and Tony Saunders; Mitchell Holman (It's a Beautiful Day), Miles Schon Band; Jose Neto and
Friends; Rock Hendricks (Bobby Womack, The Jackson 5, The funkidelics); George Michalski; Jeff Jolly; Scoop Nisker - KFOG; David Harris - speaker; Matthew
Rosenthal - Prevent Hate; Bettina Aptheker - Free Speech Movement; Ben Fong -Torres (Rolling Stone); David Hilliard - Black Panther Party; Benjamin Hernandez
- Hearts and Hands elders; Blue Thunder - spiritual healer, Teton; Dennis Peron and Richard Eastman (Marijuana Initiative); David Rovic; Rabbi Joseph Langer ;
Ed Rosenthal; Terence Hallinan (Former SF DA); Gene "DR Hip"
Schoenfeld; Paul "Lobster" Wells (DJ), Aron "Pieman" Kay (from the Yippies); Alex Reymundo - comedian; Doug Green MC; Some acts can not be
advertised because of contractual obligations.
Poster series: Stanley Mouse, Arnold Skolnick (original Woodstock 69 poster artist), Chris Shaw, Mike Dolgushkin, Wendy Wright, David Singer, Mark Henson, Carolyn Ferris, Dave Huckins, Lee Conklin, Bob Masse, Andrew Annenberg, Victor Moscosco, Michael Moss, Thomas Yeates, Chrissy Costello, Gilbert Johnson and Dusty Hughston, Michael Rios, Burry Olsen, Pat Ryan, Ron Donovin - Fire House Crew..
In honor of Jimi Hendrix, who headlined the festival in 1969, 3,000 guitar players will attempt to break the World's Record for the Largest Guitar Ensemble playing "Purple Haze" -- all at the same time!
Players are encouraged to register at:
http://www.facebook.com/l/c7259;www.steveroby.com/Jimi_Hendrix_Archives/Register.html
OVERVIEW:
Woodstock was not just an event, a happening, or a concert with 400,000 people. It was a pivotal moment of realization for an entire generation, an epiphany, a moment of realization for the entire country. The hip movement started in San Francisco a couple of years earlier in the Haight Ashbury and the "Summer of Love" had spread across the nation. There were now millions of hip people with 400,000 of them converging on Woodstock.
Woodstock was a statement to the world, "humanity had evolved", coming together through peace, love and spirituality. An event whose original
intent was to make money became the largest FREE event in history. The hip movement had come of age and was recognized by the world. The principles of love
swept the country and we had become the 'Woodstock Nation".
Hundreds of San Francisco stars and musical luminaries will perform at this October 25, 2009 event to commemorate the original principles of peace, love and
spirituality. The Woodstock 40th will begin with a blessing by the American Indigenous People and several Beat Generation poets. There will be many speakers
from the Peace Movement, the Free Speech Movement and the Anti-War Movement along with many of the acts who originally performed at Woodstock (to be
announced). There will also be an "Eco Friendly Green Village" highlighting the products, services, and information of the emerging green
movement.
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