Celebration at Big Sur

This documentary chronicles the 1969 Big Sur Festival and features the folk-rock tunes of many of the era's most influential musicians. Included is Joan Baez singing "I Shall Be Released" and "Song for David." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie ...more

The 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival wasn't one of the most notable late-'60s gatherings of rock and folk musicians, in either size or the range and quality of the artists involved. Celebration at Big Sur, the documentary film of the event, is thus no match for the ones made of the festivals at Monterey and Woodstock in the late '60s, either in music or the sophistication of its cinematic technique. It was a smaller-scale production, too, with performances taking place near a swimming pool on a cliff ...more