Festival Experiences

I still have my ticket for this concert and remember it like it was yesterday. My friend Lynn and I stayed and camped overnight so that we wouldn’t miss the...

Getting old, so I'd like to share my experience at Palm Beach Pop Festival. Friends and I traveled to Florida from Galesburg Mi in late October '69. We drove down...

I was there aged 17. I remember that when the festival closed the first thing they played on the pa was ‘Blue Jay Way’.

This coming weekend marks the 50th anniversary of this remarkable concert and I am so glad I was able to attend. My mate Pete and I travelled in a...

Brilliant. Found James Taylor. Wonderful memorable life long experience. Nearly seventy now. Remember much of it as if yesterday. Thank you to all the artists , organisers and fellow attendees....

I've been a major Creedence fan since Proud Mary first came on the radio in 1968. So I was excited to attend this all-day peace festival at Shea Stadium. ...

I went to this with my friend Eric, in my mum's Morris 1000. It was amazing. So many people! I remember Jimi Hendrix playing at about 2am. I had to...

I remember seeing Sandy Denny, playing with Richard Thompson on guitar. It was the first time I'd seen him and I thought he was amazing! I remember Sandy Denny, before...

Hi, this was my first festival. Hitch hiking from Leeuwarden to Nyborg in one day and in two days back home. Frank and I were here after visiting Odense and...

I have an original program book for the first Aldeburgh Festival (1948) for sale. If you're interested, please contact me. Thanks!

I was a naive 15 year old and attended this festival with my older brother who was attending UNR at the time. Show was to start at 12 noon and...

First time I was tear gassed. The concert was awesome to a 14 year old but terrifying after with the rioting.

This was the first time I had been away from my home town without an adult. I was 16 and I had hardly been out of the house. I learned...

About 20 of us (GIs) rode in at night on top of an Army wrecker. Three days of "where the hell are we man" "I haven't eaten since we got...

Music & dope all night. Hippies climbed trees in stupors. Never forget that.