“The back roads through the countryside took me back to where I spent youthful summers; however, I was too young at the time to experience the Woodstock Festival other than through follow up taped music and the legend. This week, August 15, 16 and 17 marks the 37th anniversary of the Woodstock Art and Music Fair and it was time to find my way back to the garden– upstate New York through the Catskill Mountains to Woodstock, known for a...
It’s August 2014 and forty-five years since the forever young Woodstock Music & Art Fair (Woodstock) was billed as An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music. On the original poster, its iconic graphic of a white dove on a guitar neck is forever ingrained alongside the dates August 15, 16 and 17, 1969. Held at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in the Catskills, 32 music acts performed outdoors on 600 acres during the dog days of summer in...
Lead singer of punk rock band, Traitors, Malika (Chaimae Ben Acha) engages her feminine heroic as she tries to find a way to change her world and escape the traditional life mapped out for women in Tangiers emulating Joe Strummer of the Clash, I’m so bored with Morocco but what can I do? In the opening scene, the all-girl band carry on raucously driving their van wildly through the urban Moroccan streets, loud music playing until finally...
