Celebration At Big Sur Part 9

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".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Joni
• Mitchell
• David
• Crosby
• Steven
• Stills
• Neil
• Young
• Graham
• Nash
• Joan
• Baez
• Folk
• Festival
• Big
• Sur

[busstopbilly]

Jeez, I went to High School in the Tustin School District. They were our arch enemy in football, crosstown rival!

Graduated, rolled my own for a few years, and spent many a summer day in Big Sur.

Ya had to be there in the 60s, to understand it. Like Paris in the 20s. Culture, music, history, and art converging in a single locus.

The fire pit at Nepenthe, where stars might wander in-- John Lennon, Timothy Leary, Joanie, Clint Eastwood, or Fritz Perls.

I'm proud to be a Calfornian.

[Chastalard]

LOVED seeing Mmi Farina perform! We miss & love you, lady.

[ralfolky]

Where is the last Part 10 ....I can`t find it ??

[ralfolky]

Where is the Part 10.....I can`t find it ???

[fpopee]

that clown is probably on the board of the NEA!!!!!!commie

[ippolytos1]

@bradkava well...the very intellectual observer would have noted certain similarities between hippies and republicans. Beyond the superficialities which were different, since hippies were first a reaction to them, there are other things which make them alike. However only the usual, run-of-the-mill hippie would be like them, and the radical folkie maybe not. But the orthodoxy of the radical folkie resembles the republican rigidity also, indeed.

[thinge27]

Is there allready somebody who knows what happend with Carol-Ann Cisneros? I saw this video in the 90 on BBC and since then i try to find out what happend with Carol. Like someone says here, you can find anything on internet, but not about Carol Cisneros. There is a video from a carol Cisneros on youtube, but don't know if she is the same.

Please can somebody help me out?

Pitty there are only a few minutes of Mmi Farine and Julie Payne singing the Moby Grape song "changes, circle spinning

[JamesMcFarlane88]

stills, mitchel, baez aaaand , sebastian(?)

[timin770]

too bad they didn't sterilize all of these hippies when they had them all gathered in one place

[colu1492]

CHILD ABUSE BIG TIME

[nategarcia]

that guy with the facepaint is my fucking grandpa. i swear to god. his name is kyle lawton.he lived in that school bus forever. i dont own a youtube account so this is my friends but that guy is my graandpa. no bullshit . i've only met him like 5 times but when my mom saw this she knew right away that was him. fuckin wild

[portraitphenomenon]

Is that BOB DYLAN on the harmonica when he was a kid ?