Festivals held between 1976 and 1981 on large farms in New Zealand
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Nambassa
Chinese dragon dance, mainstage Nambassa Festival 1979
Genre
Rock music
Dates
January
Location(s)
Waihi and Waikino, Waikato, New Zealand
Years active
1976–1981
Attendance
75,000+
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Nambassa was a series of hippie-conceived New Zealand festivals held from 1976 to 1981 on large farms around Waihi and Waikino in the Waikato. They were music, arts and alternatives festivals that focused on peace, love, and an environmentally friendly lifestyle. In addition to popular entertainment, they featured workshops and displays advocating alternative lifestyle and holistic health issues, alternative medicine, clean and sustainable energy, and unadulterated foods.
The New Zealand hippie movement was part of an international phenomenon in the 1960s and 1970s in the Western world, heralding a new artistic culture of music, freedom and social revolution where millions of young people across the globe were reacting against old world antecedents and embracing a new hippie ethos. Specifically New Zealand's subculture had its foundations in the peace and anti-nuclear activism of the 1960s where hippies were actively trying to stop New Zealand's involvement in the Vietnam war and to prevent the French from testing nuclear weapons at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia in the Pacific Islands.
The January 1979 three-day music and alternatives festival, held over Auckland anniversary weekend, attracted over 75,000 patrons making it the largest arts, multiple cultural and popular music event of its type in the world.[1]
Nambassa is also the tribal name of a charitable trust that has championed sustainable ideas and demonstrated practical counterculture ideals, a spiritually based alternative lifestyle, environmentalism and green issues from the early 1970s to the present.[1]
^ abNambassa: A New Direction, edited by Colin Broadley and Judith Jones, A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1979. ISBN 0-589-01216-9.
Nambassa was a series of hippie-conceived New Zealand festivals held from 1976 to 1981 on large farms around Waihi and Waikino in the Waikato. They were...
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could explain her behaviour. By the 1980s, following the popularity of the Nambassa festivals (see below), casual outdoor nudity was a sufficiently recognisable...
The Nambassa Winter Show with Mahana was all about a bunch of aspiring young hippie entertainers who moved into a youth camp in West Auckland, out of which...
housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa. In the United Kingdom in 1970, many gathered at the gigantic third Isle...
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on large farms around Waihi and Waikino in New Zealand- Aotearoa. Named Nambassa, the festivals focused on peace, love, and a balanced lifestyle, featuring...
stunning friends and fans alike with a legendary performance at the second Nambassa Festival in January 1979. The band released their fourth album Frenzy in...
naked bathing, Australia. 1976 (1976) – 1981 (1981): Thousands enjoy the Nambassa festivals while wearing little or no clothing, New Zealand. 1976 (1976):...
Woodstock" that ran concurrently over the months of July and August 1969. Nambassa National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, New York...
Zealand, as part of his second world tour. In late 1979, he opened the first Nambassa Festival in New Zealand, inspired by the Woodstock Festival. In 1975, he...
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existence for decades. Large music festivals, for example Sweetwaters, Nambassa and The Big Day Out, have been staged periodically since the 1970s." 1992...
Stephen Gaskin Stephen Gaskin at the Nambassa in New Zealand, 1981 Born (1935-02-16)February 16, 1935 Denver, Colorado, U.S. Died July 1, 2014(2014-07-01)...
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