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Powder Ridge Rock Festival
Festival de Powder Ridge
canceled rock festival scheduled for Middlefield, Connecticut on August 1970
Durham · Connecticut · United States of America
When?
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- Founded
- 1970
Where?
- Town
- Durham
- Region
- Connecticut
- Country
- United States of America
- How precise?
- the festival's own coordinate
Details
- Genre
- rock music
- Status
- unclear
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Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
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 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." Volunteer doctor William Abruzzi declared a drug "crisis" on August 1, saying "Woodstock was a pale pot scene. This is a heavy hallucinogens scene."
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