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MySpace Nambassa music is selection of artists recorded live from the main stage at the 1979 Nambassa 3 day music, alternatives and arts festival held in Waihi, New Zealand. This festival event and others were traditionally held on Auckland's anniversary weekend at the end of January between 1976-1981. All Nambassa events were organised on a voluntary basis by a team of dedicated 1970s hippies promoting the counterculture towards a better understanding of the new consciousness.
The boom of psychedelic music, and the de-conditioning brought about by the hippie revolution, fostered the advent of a generation of musical originals. The seventies spearheaded new music types, these now the established artistic precedent from which new styles will naturally evolve. These musical growth spurts have broken free from old world antecedents, taking the various musical disciplines in new directions with impressive and innovative results. In much the same way the 1960s and 1970s social revolution heralded significant changes in how the west viewed its relationship to religion and spirituality, health and diet, the environment, civil and human rights, marriage and sexuality, free speech, multiculturalism and the arts.
NambassaOnline is part of a free archival exercise which seeks to record this aspect of New Zealand music and cultural history.
LINKS TO NAMBASSA ACROSS THE WEB
The official Nambassa website
Nambassa MySpace
Nambassa2000 blog
Archiving 1970's Nambassa (the inside story at Wikipedia)
The 1977 Waikino Music Festival
The 1978 Nambassa Winter show with Mahana
Amazing Kiwi housetrucks
Photo images of Nambassa
An illustrated essay by John Lowe. (a personal view)
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