It’s about; coming together, community, sharing a fleeting moment in time, a mindset, a belief, a rite of passage. Call it what you will, it’s so much more than merely live music. Calling all concert-goers: grab your backpacks and bracelets cos we’re gonna check out the fascinating history of festivals… on today’s FYI.

Links:

• At a sky bar at the Sziget Festival in Budapest
• Bob Dylan goes electric at Newport Folk Festival. 
• Woodstock documentary edited by a young Marty Scorcese & Thelma Schoonmaker… they were (cutting their teeth)
• Taking Woodstock (trailer)
• Setlist.FM
• Festival Quiz 
• Max Yasgur addressing the crowd at Woodstock

Additional links:

• Danko Jones – Had Enough
• Face to Face – one of my all-time favorite bands 
• Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock 

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