Rock festival

Last weekend, in the Nation's Capitol, Nas performed at the famous Kennedy Center for two sold out performances to kick off the Kennedy Center’s One Mic: Hip Hop Culture Worldwide Festival. Backed by an eighty-piece orchestra, Nas dressed in a black tuxedo, performed his classic album Illmatic in it's entirety to a full house of a diverse crowd. Mass Appeal Media was along for the epic event and captured exclusive photos oh the once in a lifetime performance. Nas will celebrate the 20th…

The article states that music festivals provide an environment for people to be who they want to be and are able to break out of their shell. The main claim in the article, The benefits of self-selected music on health and well-being by Kari Bjerke Batt-Rawden, an Associate Professor of…

Multicultural Club A lot of us have a discourse community that we feel like we belong in. Before reading John Swales essay, I thought a discourse community is a group of people that have shared goals and purposes. But after reading John Swales essay he have made me realize that there is more to a discourse community than only having common goals and purposes but also has its own mechanism that is used mostly for communication and to provide valuable information or a feedback, using a genre(s)…

Woodstock Festival The Woodstock Festival begun as a small local fun time event that exploded into a 3 day rock and roll phenomenon. For some this event was a decent way to get out of the house, but for most this was a way for them to forget about the Vietnam war. The Woodstock Festival a time for America to let loose and forget about every care in the world. A weekend full of 32 rock bands, 400,000 people, drugs, and a bunch of alcohol, the world actually forgot about their pitiful little…

Daniel Dolan Mrs. Jankowski, p.7 American History III February 23, 2016 How Did Music in the 1960’s change the public opinion during Vietnam As the War in Vietnam raged on the people in America started to turn against it. Protests and protest music fueled the youth of the generation, with only peace and happiness to offer. The protest movement actually prospered when famous musicians and celebrities joined the movement. However, this movement was not popular with the older generations…

and other public places. The students felt they owed it to their generation to stand up for what they believe in. These groups of expressive, courageous people were known as hippies. They made up a big portion of the attendees of Woodstock. The festival of Rock and Peace…

Legal Name and Form Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is a premier 3-day music festival, which occurs once a year in April. It is held by the AEG-owned concert promoter, Goldenvoice. (Martens & Pham, 2012) History Paul Tollett (head of Goldenvoice) held the first Coachella event in October of 1999. He is famous for saying “For Southern California, this could be the start of something really special.” (Staff, 2015). Paul was right, but it was not an easy journey to the top. The first…

transitions into summer, the warm weather signifies the start of music festivals all across the United States, and even the world. Over time, these festivals have developed their own forms of culture and expression, generally displayed with extravagant clothing and a tendency for some drug use. Within the stylistic displays, a trend has emerged that causes a stir every time a person decides to place this item onto their body, whether at a festival or a part of a fashion photo shoot. Native…

drug abuse at Australian music festivals is educating the music festival volunteers/staff members as well as the attendees on the different types of drugs that is out there, how to properly consume it and its effect on the human body. Major organizations that aid in providing public health include the environmental health practitioners (EHP), local government authorities (LGA) as well as volunteer organizations which provide volunteering staff members at music festivals. Their aim is providing…

studio, the event was promoted as a rock music festival. As ticket sales rapidly rose in anticipation for the festival. It originally was supposed to be staged at the city of Woodstock but was denied permission. The event ended up being held at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York from August 15-17, 1969 but still kept the name “Woodstock.Since only a few thousand were supposed to attend and only a sum of number of tickets were sold, the festival became free because of how many…