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Hugh Nanton Romney Jr. (born May 15, 1936), known as Wavy Gravy, ... Then someone announced that B.B. King was there, and he was going to play for free. I started to ...
Today the Hog Farm continues in various locations, including a headquarters in Berkeley, California and a 600+ acre farm in Laytonville, California, known as Black Oak Ranch, which is also home to Wavy Gravy's performing arts camp for children, Camp Winnarainbow. Black Oak plays host to several music festivals each year, most of which operate ...
Camp Winnarainbow is a circus and performing arts camp for all ages, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization co-founded by American entertainer and peace activist Wavy Gravy and his wife Bonnie Beecher. [1] [2] Wavy, Bonnie and Txi Whizz jointly co-directed the camp. [3] The camp adjoins the Hog Farm commune near Laytonville, California.
In January 2011, Mike Potashnick died and Bob Kennedy, one of the co-founders of GOTV, took his place and shared the emcee duties with Wavy for the festival that year. In 2012, Gordon Taylor, Radio Vibes co-producer, was the co-emcee with Wavy Gravy. [3] Wavy Gravy is a link to the past and one way the Vibes pays homage to its roots.
Odetta was honored on May 8, 2008, at a historic tribute night, [22] hosted by Wavy Gravy, held at Banjo Jim's in the East Village. Included in the billing that night were David Amram, Vincent Cross, Guy Davis, Timothy Hill, Jack Landron, Christine Lavin, Madeleine Peyroux and Chaney Sims. [22]
B. B. King (1925–2015) was an American blues musician whose recording career spanned 1949–2008. As with other blues contemporaries, King's material was primarily released on singles until the late 1950s–early 1960s, when long playing record albums became more popular.
Live in Cook County Jail is a 1971 live album by American blues musician B.B. King, recorded on September 10, 1970, in Cook County Jail in Chicago.Agreeing to a request by jail warden Winston Moore, King and his band performed for an audience of 2,117 prisoners, most of whom were young black men.
A 1976 Nobody for President campaign button. Nobody for President was a parodic campaign for the 1976 United States presidential election, [1] [2] as well as the 1980, 1984, and 1988 presidential elections.