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Free festival
Stonehenge Free Festival 1984
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Related genresRock (electronic rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock), country music, jam band music, metal music, folk music
LocationWorldwide
Related eventsMusic festival, rock festival, teknival, technoparade, rave, jam band festival, heavy metal festival, punk rock festival, reggae festival, Christian music festival, concert tour, rock concert

Free festivals are a combination of music, arts and cultural activities, for which often no admission is charged, but involvement is preferred. They are identifiable by being multi-day events connected by a camping community without centralised control. The pioneering free festival movement started in the UK in the 1970s.

History

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David Bowie's song Memory of a Free Festival, recorded in September 1969 and included on the 1969 album David Bowie, mentions the free festival organised by the Beckenham Arts Lab and held on the Croydon Road Recreation Ground on 16 August 1969.

The 1972 to 1974 Windsor Free Festival, held in Windsor Great Park, England, was a free festival. The 'organisation' was mostly Ubi Dwyer distributing thousands of leaflets and asking people and bands to bring their own equipment and create their own environment – "bring what you expect to find."

"Free festivals are practical demonstrations of what society could be like all the time: miniature utopias of joy and communal awareness rising for a few days from a grey morass of mundane, inhibited, paranoid and repressive everyday existence…The most lively escape geographically and physically to the ‘Never Never Land’ of a free festival where they become citizens, indeed rulers, in a new reality." Un-authored leaflet from 1980, quoted in George McKay's Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance Since the Sixties (p. 15).

Free festivals by year

Main page: Category:Free festivals See also: List of historic rock festivals

Historical

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Gallery

  • Simon and Garfunkel at The Concert in Central Park Simon and Garfunkel at The Concert in Central Park
  • Cambridge Strawberry Fair 2011 Cambridge Strawberry Fair 2011
  • Strawberry Fair 2007, Cambridge Strawberry Fair 2007, Cambridge
  • Parkpop 2006 Parkpop 2006
  • West Fest in San Francisco West Fest in San Francisco

See also

References

  1. Clarke, M. (1982). The Politics of Pop Festivals. London: Junction Books.
  2. McKay, G. (1996). Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance Since the Sixties. London: Verso Books.
  3. "Remember the Battle of the Beanfield | Andy Worthington". The Guardian. 1 June 2009. Archived from the original on 29 May 2023.
  4. Green World Yoga & Sacred Music Festival, Skåne
  5. "Wisbech Rock Festival". www.visitcambridgeshirefens.org. Retrieved 8 October 2022.

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