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Friday, March 27, 2026

Celebration at Big Sur (1969) Festival

 


Celebration at Big Sur is a film of the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival in Big Sur, California, featuring Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and others.

Songs: 
"I Shall Be Released" – Joan Baez
"Mobile Line" – John Sebastian with Stephen Stills offstage
"Song for David" – Joan Baez
shown rehearsing offstage, with stage performance of same song cut in
"All of God's Children Got Soul" – Dorothy Combs Morrison and the Combs Sisters
"Sea of Madness" – CSNY
"4 + 20" – Stephen Stills solo performance
Stephen Stills introduces this number discussing his interaction with a heckler in the previous scene
"Get Together" – Joni Mitchell with Crosby, Stills & Nash and John Sebastian
"Put a Little Love in Your Heart" – Dorothy Combs Morrison and the Combs Sisters
incomplete
non-musical footage of nude sauna, audience happenings
"Swing Down Sweet Chariot" – various
offstage, incomplete
"Rainbows All Over Yours Blues" – John Sebastian
"Woodstock" – Joni Mitchell (playing piano)
non-musical footage of self-identified "freak" with Woodstock-themed bus
"Red-Eye Express" – John Sebastian with Stephen Stills
"Changes" – Mimi Fariña and Julie Payne with Stephen Stills
incomplete
"Malagueña Salerosa" – Carol Ann Cisneros
"Rise, Shine, and Give God the Glory" – The Struggle Mountain Resistance Band
incomplete
"Down By the River" – CSNY
incomplete, over 7 minutes
folk musician improvising outside the festival
"Sweet Sir Galahad" – Joan Baez
"Oh Happy Day" – Dorothy Combs Morrison and the Combs Sisters with Joan Baez
opens with Joan Baez rehearsing same number with Dorothy Combs Morrison

Directed by – Baird Bryant, Johanna Demetrakas
Produced – Ted Mann, Carl Gottlieb
Cinematography – Baird Bryant, Johanna Demetrakas, Gary Weis, Peter Smokler, Joan Churchill

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