Woodstock Lost Performances - Part 5 (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
Front man David Clayton-Thomas performs at Woodstock
The Montreal Blue Metropolis Festival is hosting a benefit event Woodstock Revival 2019 at 5:30 pm, May 15, at the Cabaret Lion d’Or, with Lyne Tremblay as host, artistic direction by Matt Zimbel, and featuring Louise Ann Maziak, chair of of the honorary committee, and members of the honorary committee. Woodstock Revival 2019 commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Festival that took place August 15-18, 1969. The famous rock concert purportedly drew over 500,000 young people to Max Yasgur's dairy farm in the town of Bethel, New York shining a spotlight on the burgeoning 1960's counterculture. The legendary music festival was immortalized in the song "Woodstock" by singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell and the popular song was covered by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young becoming a counterculture anthem in the hippie-era. From Jimi Hendrix to Janis Joplin, with a detour that includes Michel Pagliaro, this eclectic literary show on behalf of the Blue Metropolis Foundation's educational/social programs and Children's Festival is sure to entertain.
On May 2nd, Blue Met hosted an earlier benefit event Easy Rider at Hotel 10 to mark the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock in support of its educational programs to combat social exclusion. "Easy Rider" is a landmark counter-cultural film associated with the Woodstock era. Jean-François Leduc, seasoned motorist and honorary president of Blue Met's Easy Rider benefit event, invited participants to "relive the momentous adventures on mythic Route 66." The benefit event featured performer Lyne Tremblay, directed by Matt Zimbel. "Easy Rider" is an American independent road drama written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern. Produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper, Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal. Another "touchstone for a generation", the film explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960's, the rise of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyles.
The Blue Metropolis Festival hosted another Woodstock-themed event when Juno and Grammy Award winner David Clayton-Thomas the former front man of Blood, Sweat and Tears dropped by Blue Met to chat with musician/producer Matt Zimbel for an evening of Woodstock Redux: Peace, Love and Music. Clayton-Thomas is a pioneer of the Canadian music scene who headlined at Woodstock with Blood, Sweat and Tears. He reminisced about the famed festival, his career, the music biz, and his rags to riches story chronicled in Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Later he signed copies of his eponymous memoir at Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore the official bookstore of the Blue Metropolis Festival.
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