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From co-founding the legendary Isle of Wight Festival – where Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, The Who, Miles Davis, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen & more played to 600,000 people in 1970 – to championing environmental design and education, Ray Foulk’s career has spanned music, architecture, and activism.At the literary festival in October, Ray will lift the curtain on the behind-the-scenes dramas of Europe’s answer to Woodstock: the political battles, counterculture clashes, and the staggering challenge of staging 5 days of music in just a month.
Was the 1970 Festival the last great event of the sixties dream, or the beginning of its end? 🌍🎶
The presentation includes film clips and the first public Isle of Wight performance of “Wight Is Wight” by Island musicians Jess Leigh Ong and Alex Watts. The song topped charts in France, Belgium, Italy and Finland, but remains a lost anthem here despite a subsequent recording by Sandie Shaw.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Northwood House, Cowes, United Kingdom
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