| 1970s
Free Music Festivals
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| Rhayader
Festival in the Prescilli Mountains, summer 1976 |
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| Event prematurely halted by
the authorities, whilst revellers cautioned for 'loitering
within tents' ... |
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| My
personal black & white photograph collection capturing the mid
1970s Free Music Festivals in rural UK, including Stonehenge,
Meigan Fayre, Rhayader & Deeply Vale .. reaches several
hundred images, covering a period in folk/rock history that
has all but faded from our everyday realities |
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Gallery celebrates some of the people who were at these
gatherings of the tribe. There are seperate galleries
of the Festival bands such as Here &
Now, Nik Turner, Zorch
and Gong as well as my own band A
Phantasy Circus that regularly played these events. There
is also a brand new WOMAD gallery open
with colour photos of recent years |
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origins of 'jeza wined up' and many of the friendships and musicians
I still know and work with today were forged at these joyous
gatherings. The first image is of Basil and his good wife Tracy
Brooks, my producer on jeza wined up, already old friends in
1975. It is with great pleasure that JEZALAND brings you now
for the first time, this unique and original selection of black
and white 1970s Free Festival images shot with my first Pentax
slr camera, and processed by hand |
| All
images are copyright to Jeza. Please do not reprint or use without
first obtaining permission |
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| Meigan Fayre Wales,
Summer 1976 |
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| Stonehenge - Celebration and
Subversion |
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Jeza is proud of the contribution
made to Andy Worthington's sociological history of Stonehenge
and the free festival scene in the UK, featuring several
photos from this gallery. |
| This new book gives a fascinating
insight into the various countercultural obsessions with
the Stones and provides a variety of new perspectives
to many of the key events surrounding the Henge such as
the Battle Of The Beanfield and the more recent attempts
hold a celebration at the Stones during the Solstice. |
| Find out more about this great
book by clicking on the cover to the left and visit the
Heart of Albion Press web
site . |
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| Deeply Vale, Stonehenge
and others ..
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