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Free festival - Wikipedia

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Free festival
Stonehenge Free Festival 1984
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Related genres	Rock (electronic rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock), country music, jam band music, metal music, folk music
Location	Worldwide
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Free festivals are a combination of music, arts and cultural activities, for which often no admission is charged, but involvement is preferred. They are identifiable by being multi-day events connected by a camping community without centralised control. The pioneering free festival movement started in the UK in the 1970s.

History

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David Bowie's song Memory of a Free Festival, recorded in September 1969 and included on the 1969 album David Bowie, mentions the free festival organised by the Beckenham Arts Lab and held on the Croydon Road Recreation Ground on 16 August 1969.

The 1972 to 1974 Windsor Free Festival, held in Windsor Great Park, England, was a free festival. The 'organisation' was mostly Ubi Dwyer distributing thousands of leaflets and asking people and bands to bring their own equipment and create their own environment – "bring what you expect to find."^[1]

"Free festivals are practical demonstrations of what society could be like all the time: miniature utopias of joy and communal awareness rising for a few days from a grey morass of mundane, inhibited, paranoid and repressive everyday existence…The most lively [young people] escape geographically and physically to the ‘Never Never Land’ of a free festival where they become citizens, indeed rulers, in a new reality." Un-authored leaflet from 1980, quoted in George McKay's Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance Since the Sixties (p. 15).^[2]

Free festivals by year

Historical

1960s

Woodstock Festival, 1969 (partly free)
Croydon Road Recreation Ground free festival, 1969

1970s

Phun City 1970
Glastonbury Free Festival 1971
Windsor Free Festival, 1972–1974
- People's Free Festivals at Watchfield 1975, Seasalter 1976 and Caesar's Camp 1978
Trentishoe Whole Earth Fayre 1973–76
Stonehenge Free Festival, 1972–1984^[3]
- Battle of the Beanfield (1985)
Rivington Pike/North Country Fair 1976–78
Deeply Vale Festivals 1976–79
Leamington Spa Peace Festival

1980s

Elephant Fayre, 1981–86
Jazz at the Lake: Lake George Jazz Weekend (started as a free festival in upstate New York in 1984)

1990s

Torpedo Town - Hampshire, UK
Castlemorton Common Festival, 1992
Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Free Fringe
CzechTek
Dragon Festival, Orgiva, Spain, 1997–2009
Przystanek Woodstock
Davestock - Vancouver Island, BC
Heineken Music Festivals, 1990–1995, UK

2000s

Barışarock, 2003-2008

2010s

Mile of Music - Appleton, Wisconsin
Green World Yoga & Sacred Music Festival, Skåne^[4]

2020s

Wisbech Rock Festival - Wisbech, Isle of Ely, UK.^[5]

Gallery

Simon and Garfunkel at The Concert in Central Park
Cambridge Strawberry Fair 2011
Strawberry Fair 2007, Cambridge
Parkpop 2006
West Fest in San Francisco

References

^ Clarke, M. (1982). The Politics of Pop Festivals. London: Junction Books.
^ McKay, G. (1996). Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance Since the Sixties. London: Verso Books.
^ "Remember the Battle of the Beanfield | Andy Worthington". The Guardian. 1 June 2009. Archived from the original on 29 May 2023.
^ Green World Yoga & Sacred Music Festival, Skåne
^ "Wisbech Rock Festival". www.visitcambridgeshirefens.org. Retrieved 8 October 2022.

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