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Hippies: Festivals
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With the demise of the Grateful Dead and Phish, nomadic touring hippies attend a growing series of summer festivals, the largest of which is called the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, which premiered in 2002. The Oregon Country Fair is a three-day festival featuring hand-made crafts, educational displays and costumed entertainment. The annual Starwood Festival, founded in 1981, is a six-day event indicative of the spiritual quest of hippies through an exploration of non-mainstream religions and world-views, and has offered performances and classes by a variety of hippy and counter-culture icons.
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In this comic tale, a quintet of contemporary hippies takes to the road in their Volkswagen bus -- dubbed "Kosmic Freedum"-- to attend Preservation Week, an event dedicated to saving the planet. But when they can't get into the festival, they find themselves on their own -- and facing off against loggers, sport utility vehicle owners and, of course, the fuzz. Matt Keating, Amy Renner, Kurt Richter, Kevin George and Michael Roberts star.
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Just as Bohemians used art and writing, hippies used their distinct music to rebel against authority and define a whole generation. At Woodstock, a major music festival during the summer of 1969, hippies celebrated the ideas of their generation through music.
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