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Celebration at Big Sur

3.0 82 mins Documentary   Music   History   1971
20th Century Fox  
Director(s): Baird Bryant Johanna Demetrakas

Release Date: 10 Fri, Dec 1971

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.

Casts of Celebration at Big Sur

Joan Baez

as Self

David Crosby

as Self

Joni Mitchell

as Self

Graham Nash

as Self

Stephen Stills

as Self

Neil Young

as Self

John Sebastian

as Self

Dallas Taylor

as Self

Greg Reeves

as Self

Mimi Fariña

as Self

Chris Ethridge

as Self

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