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The Alternate Woodstock

Event Type: Speaker
Date: 11/14/2009
Start Time: 2:00 PM
Description:
  In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock festival, music historian Richie Unterberger will show rare clips from the era of performers at that event. Included will be footage of Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Sly & the Family Stone, the Who, Country Joe & the Fish, Richie Havens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jimi Hendrix, Sha Na Na, Melanie, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joan Baez, John Sebastian, and others.

Richie Unterberger has been writing about little-known and well-known rock and popular music of all kinds for more than 25 years, having most recently published his eighth title. Earlier titles include EIGHT MILES HIGH: FOLK-ROCK'S FLIGHT FROM HAIGHT-ASHBURY TO WOODSTOCK and TURN! TURN! TURN!: THE 1960s FOLK-ROCK REVOLUTION.

He regularly presents events featuring rare rock films in the San Francisco Bay area and elsewhere, at public libraries and other venues. **$25 gift certificate raffle prize to be
awarded—must wear 60s-ish attire to participate!
Library: Moraga Library