by Weston | Dec 23, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots Concert, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
“An Air of Magic—Roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival: The Backstory to “Woodstock,” an article by David Bouton that appears in the winter 2009 issue of Kaatskill Life, offers a great review of the Roots book and concert. Bouton begins with, “[The festival]...
by Weston | Aug 28, 2009 | Roots Concert, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
When we were invited to spend the Woodstock Festival’s 40th anniversary weekend at our friends’ home in Woodstock itself (actually Bearsville, a few miles west on Route 212), I checked the local gig schedule and saw that former Howlin’ Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin...
by Weston | Jun 22, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
For more than 40 years, Bob Fass has hosted Radio Unnameable on Pacifica Radio’s WBAI. Fass’s show pioneered free-form radio. He has welcomed them all—the famous as well as the lesser known. Some of the former include Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, The...
by Weston | Jun 16, 2009 | Roots Concert Releases, Roots of Woodstock Blog, Roots Releases |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Salidor Phone: 212-245-5909 Email: DS*************@ao*.com Woodstock at Woodstock Live Concert Concert Team Books Initial Acts Woodstock, NY—June 16, 2009—Weston and Julia Blelock, producers of the August 15,...
by Weston | Jun 15, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots Concert, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Ellen McIlwaine played the Woodstock Sound-Outs during the late sixties with her group Fear Itself. Larry Packer relates in Roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival: The Backstory to “Woodstock” that he once saw Ellen give a “Janis Joplin-like”...
