There’s something electric about stepping into a world where peace, love, and music reign supreme. In our fast-paced digital age, hippie festivals offer a rare escape, a chance to reconnect with ...

Since most of us find ourselves at one of these things sometime during the summer, it matters not where we attend festivals, as they are in the big picture, relatively the same. For a while it seemed ...

SALISBURY — Sun-seekers and flower children flooded the Rowan County Fairgrounds over the weekend to feel the beat and get into the groove. Hippie Fest, a traveling festival celebrating all things tie ...

What: That's the Lynton & Lynmouth Arts and Music Appreciation festival to you. Each year these small adjoining towns stage their own mini-Woodstock, with makeshift stages hosting bands over three ...

The famous counterculture of the 1960s always had two lifestyles, one urban and the other more oriented to quiet, country living — including in pioneering communes in New Mexico and elsewhere. Half a ...

Glastonbury is often seen as a chance for nine-to-fivers to turn on, tune in and drop out for a long weekend. But what about those living an alternative lifestyle full time? “That thing about washing ...

There’s a free-spirit movement afoot that has more to do with meditation, yoga, fellowship, good vibes, and a search for the divine than it does with the mind-altering substances of its 60s ...

The first alarm bell goes off when we get to the gate of the hippie festival and a cropped yellow jacket with Maori tattoos and Connect Four counters in his earlobes stops the van and says in a ...

Daddy, Where Do Hippie Festivals Go When They Die? Real True Confessions with Padre Pienbique: Tucked away discretely in the jambands.com archives is a column I wrote titled: Daddy, Where Do Hippie ...