Celebration At Big Sur Part 8 - John Sebastian Joni Mitchell

BIG SUR Calif. 1969

A musical documentary of the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival, filmed in a chaotic style reminiscent of Woodstock. It features performances by Joan Baez, John Sebastian, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and the Combs Sisters.

Some of the finest folk singers and musicians in the world positioned themselves on the edge of some of America's most glorious scenery for a farewell to summer and a celebration of nonviolence in mid-September. It was the sixth annual Big Sur Folk Festival.

The festival, held on the tree-shaded lawns of Esalen, also differed from other recent celebrations in that here the "scene" did not eclipse the music, but merely served as a complement. According to its producers, Nancy Carlen and Paula Kates, Big Sur was designed as a "performers festival," an opportunity for artists to come together after a hectic summer on the festival circuit for some peace and solitude.

Crosby Stills Nash and Young played the final set, as on Saturday, repeatedly bringing the thinning crowd to it's feet. For a finale - with the audience pushed forward around the pool, closer to the performers now - everyone at the festival reprise "Oh Happy Day".

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• Stills
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• Graham
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• Joan
• Baez
• Folk
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• Big
• Sur
• Jo

[bookkeeper57]

John Sebastian wore exactly the same outfit to Woodstock in August 1969. He wasn't spending his money on clothes.

[musik102]

Democritous: Listen to Joni's lyrics!! She is the most "confessional" singer ever. She lived the life - and then some!!!

[Zacchino01]

wowo wowow so beautiful...and now what we have?nothing like this...here in italy is all so fakeeee...love and peace claudia

[psychodelicrock12]

Excellent version of WOODSTOCK written and sung by JONI MITCHELL herself.

[dgfdhjdshfdjdgd]

Do or die man naughty women here benaughtyman.info

[vmt1]

OMG, I don't believe it. at :021 it's the old man from Santa Cruz who played the saw - boy could he make it sing. I actually heard him play on Pacific Garden Mall in the mid-70s and there is statue to him there now. WOW

[momogosecow]

JONI U FUCKING ROCK THIS SONG!!!!!!!

[hamamaamiia]

happy birthday woodstock ! 40 years old !

[daveniner]

He probably never took it off,,,,