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Celebration at Big Sur (1971)

Celebration at Big Sur (1971)

Music History Documentary

Everyone did it... for the sheer love of it.

Release Date: 1971, December 10
Directors: Johanna Demetrakas, Baird Bryant
Countries: United States of America
Production: 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox
Cast: David Crosby, Joan Baez, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Graham Nash, John Sebastian, Joni Mitchell, Chris Ethridge, Mimi Fariña, Dallas Taylor, Greg Reeves

Overview:

Star-studded show recorded at the Big Sur Folk Festival, Big Sur, California, September 13th and 14th, 1969. Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell, John Sebastian, and others. This film captures a remarkable moment in folk, rock, and pop history - the famous folk festival that brought traditional acts like Dorothy Morrison & The Combs Sisters and Carol Ann Cisneros together with the psychedelic rockers of the day who were most deeply rooted in the folk revival. Older songs like ‘Oh Happy Day,’ ‘Rise And Shine,’ ‘All God’s Children,’ and ‘Swing Down, Sweet Chariot’ meet Joni Mitchell’s ‘Woodstock,’ Joan Baez’s ‘Sweet Sir Galahad,’ ‘Bob Dylan’s ‘I Shall Be Released,’ CSNY’s ‘Down By The River,’ and many more of the now-classic songs of what was then called the ‘new rock.’ The scene is notably intimate and - aside from one fan’s dustup with Stephen Stills - mellow, with many rare, close-up moments with the stars.

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