by Weston | Sep 17, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Billy Batson, a rough-hewn and as authentic a musician as you’re likely to encounter, arrived in 1965 Woodstock by way of California and Greenwich Village. For a time, he gigged around town as a solo act. In the late sixties, he played a set at The Elephant....
by Weston | Sep 2, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Posted by Weston Blelock Bob Liikala’s Group 212 Inter-Media Project exhibit at the Historical Society of Woodstock will close on September 6th. Liikala has been on hand since the August 8th opening to guide visitors and discuss the project’s formation and...
by Weston | Aug 28, 2009 | Roots Book |
On August 21st Marty Angelo, the manager of Raven, a Buffalo-based group, e-mailed Weston Blelock to say that Raven played the Woodstock Sound Festival in 1968: “I am not sure exactly what the event was called when Raven played Woodstock. We...
by Weston | Aug 22, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
From the 8/13/09 issue of the Woodstock Times, “Woodstock Nation on the Shelves” by Paul Smart: “Perhaps the biggest book bash the town’s seen in some time, the bringing to life, via an actual-to-heavens musical concert for the locally-produced Roots...
by Weston | Aug 13, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots Concert, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
From the August 2009 issue of Hudson Valley Magazine: Then: “The Sound-Outs were a series of impromptu concerts held on a farm between Saugerties and Woodstock. The first one, on Labor Day weekend 1967, included performers Richie Havens, Tim Hardin, Junior Wells,...
by Weston | Jul 1, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
During the spring of 1968, Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys lived on Manhattan’s lower east side. They were the house band at the Electric Circus. The way banjo player Charlie Chin tells it, Bob Smith, the keyboard player, began to promote the idea that...
