~ the spirit of early music festivals up to the late eighties reached back to the flower power of the sixties
             ~ in the north country it brought artists to the boonies where the fair insisted on the principles of love and peace
             ~ these events were relaxed and featured artist-fairgoer interactions ~ in contrast to the currect high energy, high volume, bass-boosted and low-frequency-loaded, cacophonous music fest that is unprincipled vacuous hedonism