**Rock Hall Welcomes New Exhibit With The Ten Greatest Festival Performances; The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will open their latest major exhibit, Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience, on Friday. Along with artifacts and memorabilia from some of the great festivals of the last sixty years, museum goers will see a short film on the fan-voted ten greatest festival performances of all time. While one might expect a list voted by the public to be filled with the latest shows from Coachella and Bonnaroo, the Rock Hall tally is, in fact, a very respectable overview of performances that set the standard for not only festival shows, but live music in general. Topping the list are two performances from the 1967 Monterey International Pop Music Festival by Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin with a third show from the weekend by Otis Redding farther down the list. Two performances from Woodstock and Live Aid are joined by one each from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, 1960 Newport Jazz Festival and the 1994 revival of Woodstock. 1) [Jimi Hendrix Experience] Monterey International Pop Music Festival (1967) A legendary debut as the most incendiary group in rock and roll. 2) [Big Brother and the Holding Company] Monterey International Pop Music Festival (1967) Power, energy and an awe-struck crowd: meet Janis Joplin. 3) [Queen] Live Aid (1985) Stealing the show at arguably the greatest live concert ever staged. 4) [Santana] Woodstock Music & Art Fair (1969) - A singular performance that introduced a new sound to rock music. 5) [Bob Dylan] Newport Folk Festival (1965) Three songs that changed the course of popular music forever. 6) [Otis Redding] Monterey International Pop Music Festival (1967) A breakthrough performance in the truest sense. 7) [Nine Inch Nails] Woodstock Music & Art Fair (1994) Catapulted to mainstream with mud, industrial music and a truly mesmerizing moment. 8) [Sly and the Family Stone] Woodstock Music & Art Fair (1969) Channeling the Woodstock spirit and rewriting the book on performance. 9) [U2] Live Aid (1985) An artist creates intimacy in the least intimate circumstances and makes an indelible connection. 10) [Muddy Waters] Newport Jazz Festival (1960) How the blues was masterfully delivered to a new audience. Spanning two floors of the Museum, the exhibit will surround visitors with the sights and sounds of a rock festival to evoke the experience in a visceral way, utilizing video of the iconic festivals of the past (Newport, Monterey, Woodstock, Wattstax and more) and the vibrant, constantly evolving events of the present (Coachella, Bonnaroo, Glastonbury and more), with an emphasis on establishing a you are there environment. Several floor to ceiling photographs of festival fans will invite visitors to examine and interpret the fan experience and become a part of the crowd. Ambient sounds will fill the space: weather, bands tuning up, people talking, radio ads and news reports. Visitors will connect with the intangible elements inherent in the festival experience – identifying with a community, participating in a social event and being part of the creative process. As fans around the world experience this years biggest festivals firsthand and share tagged images of the vibrant and diverse sights that surround them, the Rock Hall will capture and present those moments via large monitors on the fourth floor of the Museum near the entrance of the exhibit. The first level of the exhibit will take visitors through a fast-paced history of popular music festivals with large photographs, artifacts and short documentary films. >Birth of the Modern Festival (From Spirituals to Swing, the Newport Festivals) >Youth Quake (Monterey Pop, Woodstock, Isle of Wight) >Festivals with a Purpose (Live Aid, Wattstax, Soul to Soul) >Europe (Glastonbury, Roskilde, Pink Pop) >Modern Destination Festival (Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Coachella) >Electronic Dance Music (Electric Daisy Carnival, Tomorrowland, Creamfields) The second level of the exhibit will present an immersive experience designed to place the visitor squarely into the festival experience. The space will represent a performance tent at a festival and visitors will encounter a 20 minute film representing a fast moving day at a festival told through a cinematic mash-up of performances, sights, sounds, words and communal energy of iconic music festivals from the past seven decades. The main screen will be complimented with synchronized images and lighting that will evoke the feeling of day turning into night. The Common Ground exhibit will close on January 31, 2015. [The Top 10 Concert Festival Moments in Rock and Roll History] In March 2014, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum invited fans around the globe to vote for the greatest festival moments in the history of rock and roll. Thousands of votes were cast, and when the results were tallied, a Top 10 emerged. Here are those amazing festival moments, from Newport Folk to Woodstock, Monterey Pop to Lollapalooza; from Bob Dylan to Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters to Nine Inch Nails. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, opens a new feature exhibit, Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience, on April 25, 2014.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:02:51 +0000
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