Canceled rock festival scheduled for Middlefield, Connecticut on August 1970
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Powder Ridge Rock Festival
Melanie Safka was the only artist ignoring the court injunction banning the festival; she performed on an improvised stage powered by Mister Softee trucks.
Genre
Rock music
Dates
July 31, August 1 and August 2, 1970
Location(s)
Powder Ridge Ski Area in Middlefield, Connecticut
Years active
1970 (cancelled)
Attendance
30,000
The Powder Ridge Rock Festival was scheduled to be held July 31, August 1 and August 2, 1970, at Powder Ridge Ski Area in Middlefield, Connecticut. A legal injunction forced the event to be canceled, keeping the musicians away; but a crowd of 30,000 attendees[1] arrived anyway, to find no food, no entertainment, no adequate plumbing, and at least seventy drug dealers. William Manchester wrote: "Powder Ridge was an accident waiting to happen, and it happened."[1] Volunteer doctor William Abruzzi declared a drug "crisis" on August 1, saying "Woodstock was a pale pot scene. This is a heavy hallucinogens scene."[2]
^William Manchester, 1972, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-1972, pp. 1212-1213. Bantam Books.
^"Drug Peril Eases at Powder Ridge". The New York Times. August 2, 1970. p. 58, § 1. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
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