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Pages in category "Songs about hippies" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Absolutely Free (song) C. California Dreamin' Carey (song) D ...
As a hippie Ken Westerfield helped to popularize Frisbee as an alternative sport in the 1960s and 1970s. Much of hippie style had been integrated into mainstream American society by the early 1970s. [57] [58] [59] Large rock concerts that originated with the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and the 1968 Isle of Wight Festival became the norm ...
Freak scene music was an eclectic mixture based around progressive rock and experimentalism. There were crossover bands bridging rock and jazz , rock and folk , rock and sci-fi ( space rock ). BBC radio presenter John Peel presented a nightly show that featured the music.
Steam Powered Aereo-Takes is a collection of outtakes, demos and jam-sessions from John Hartford's groundbreaking 1971 album Aereo-Plain, released in 2002.The music is a blend of traditional bluegrass musicianship, and the hippie spirit of the '70s.
The song was a popular hit, reaching number 4 on the music chart in the United States and number 1 in the United Kingdom and most of Europe, [8] [9] and became an unofficial anthem for hippies, flower power and the flower child concept.
The music on Aereo-Plain is a blend of traditional bluegrass musicianship and the hippie spirit of the '70s. [2] The album sold so poorly that Warner Bros. decided to devote no promotion at all to Hartford's next release Morning Bugle. Nevertheless, Aereo-Plain has been called the forerunner of the genre now known as "Newgrass".
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In later years, mobile "peace convoys" of New Age travellers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge and elsewhere. In Australia, hippies gathered at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival and the annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally or MardiGrass. "Piedra Roja Festival", a major hippie event in Chile, was held in 1970. [14]