Whole Earth Festival

Canned Heat and Barry “The Fish” Melton to headline Saturday night at WEF!

njoshi — Wed, 01 May 2013 09:28:15 +0000

Emerging in 1966, Canned Heat was founded by blues historians and record collectors Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson and Bob “The Bear” Hite . They gained international attention and secured their niche in the pages of rock ‘n roll history with their performances at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival (along with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Who) and the headlining slot at the original Woodstock Festival. Wilson was already renowned for his distinctive harmonica work when he accompanied veteran bluesman, Son House, on his rediscovery album, “Father of the Blues.” Hite took the name Canned Heat from a 1928 recording by Tommy Johnson. They were joined by Henry “The Sunflower” Vestine, another ardent record collector capable of fretboard fireworks at a moment’s notice who was a former member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention. Rounding out the band in 1967 were Larry “The Mole” Taylor on bass, an experienced session musician who had played with Jerry Lee Lewis and The Monkees and Adolfo “Fito” de la Parra on drums who had played in two of the biggest Latin American bands, Los Sinners and Los Hooligans and then with The Platters, The Shirelles, T-Bone Walker and Etta James.

Canned Heat’s unique blend of modern electric blues, rock and boogie has earned them a loyal following and influenced many aspiring guitarists and bands during the past 40 years. Their Top-40 country-blues-rock songs, “On The Road Again,” “Let’s Work Together,” and “Going Up The Country,” became rock anthems throughout the world with the later being adopted as the unofficial theme song for the film Woodstock and the “Woodstock Generation.”

Barry “The Fish” Melton is the co-founder and original lead guitarist of Country Joe and The Fish. Barry appears on all the Country Joe and The Fish recordings and he also wrote some of the songs that the band recorded. He appeared in the films made at Monterey Pop and Woodstock and is also a founding member of The Dinosaurs, the Bay Area’s only psychedelic music “supergroup.”

Come see these legends headline Quad stage on Saturday night of WEF 2013!

WEF Webisode 3

njoshi — Wed, 01 May 2013 08:56:21 +0000

Fantashley has created the third installment of her web series for your enjoyment! Go to our webisodes page to see the newest clip, “Gearing Up for WEF 2013″, and hear about our exciting headliner for Saturday night of WEF!

WEF 2013 Poster!

njoshi — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:54:13 +0000

Introducing the poster for WEF 2013! This fabulous art that incorporates the UC Davis Quad, Galactic Signatures, fractals, rainbow bridges and an hourglass draws inspiration from the WEF 2013 theme and from Jose Arguelles’ Dreamspell.

WEF Webisode 2

njoshi — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:34:37 +0000

We have a new WEF Webisode up for your enjoyment! Go see it on our webisodes page!

WEF Webisodes!

njoshi — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:16:46 +0000

Our very own Fantashley has created the first in a series of webisodes documenting some of the pre-festival internal magic that happens to bring about WEF! Go to our webisodes page to watch the first installment, “Choosing a Theme”.

Submit your Poster for WEF!

njoshi — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:28:17 +0000

We are now accepting Poster submissions for WEF! The deadline for submission is March 11th, 2013. Check out the guidelines page for more information. The theme is “Time is Art”, and the poster should reflect that. Let your imagination run wild and come up with something extraordinary to represent Whole Earth!

The WEF 2013 theme has arrived!

njoshi — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:51:41 +0000

Hallelujah, we have a theme! And it only took 5 hours of amazing, frustrating, enlightening, messy and spirited discussion to get there! The WEF 2013 theme is (drumroll….):

Time is Art

So meditate on that and all of you artists out there, start thinking about your poster/t-shirt designs because very soon it will be Time for soliciting your Art!

Be On Staff! Staff positions are now open…. apply soon!

njoshi — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:34:34 +0000

Staff positions have now been posted to the WEF website here. If you are interested in any of the available positions, then please apply ASAP and don’t forget to attend the first staff meeting at the EC on January 8th, 2013 at 6:30pm!

Food Booth and Musician applications for WEF 2013 now online

njoshi — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 11:20:35 +0000

The applications for Food Booths and for Musicians are both up! Click on the Applications tab on the home page to get to them. Keep in mind that it may take a little while for people to get back to you.

WEF 2013!

njoshi — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:22:05 +0000

Welcome to WEF 2013! Over the next many months we will be posting updates here pertaining to Whole Earth Festival 2013. Check back often for new news!