THE POWDER RIDGE ROCK FESTIVAL
NADINE'S COUPLES
SUSANNAH'S PICKS

May 2011

THE POWDER RIDGE ROCK FESTIVAL
Middlefield, Connecticut
30 July - 2 August 1970

What was planned as the Second Woodstock to have taken place in the summer of 1970 was cancelled by the nervous local officials with court orders. The local officials in Middlefield, Connecticut didn’t believe they or the surrounding communities could support and manage the projected 30,000 young visitors who wanted another great happening and concert weekend. Some of the biggest names in the world of rock including Joe Cocker, Allman Brothers, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, James Taylor, Van Morrison, Little Richard, Richie Havens, Jethro Tull and many other top musicians were scheduled. However, the musicians were told not to show up in the days before the festival was to have begun. Even though there were some news releases about this cancellation more than 25,000 youngsters showed up anyway. They had paid for their tickets in advance and were going to Powder Ridge - hell or high water. ...Click here to read more

NADINE'S COUPLES

I paint the gay community because of their outness, their beauty, their honesty and their pain. Because of what they can say, what they feel they can't and how they can laugh at themselves. Because they have a unique perspective of being on the outskirts and looking away, in or forward. Because being discriminated against makes them stronger and weaker then most. I paint my shy sense of humor. I paint the power of a person. I paint the beauty and pain of a soul. I paint what I can't say. I paint the gay community because as an artist, a women, and a survivor, I feel the same way. Because I can relate.

- Nadine Robbins, 2011

SUSANNAH'S PICKS

Susannah Elke Freed is the daughter of the late and renowned photographer Leonard Freed. All of the SUSANNAH’S PICKS Prints are Modern Silver Prints Signed on the Reverse by Brigitte Freed. For information on Vintage and Later Silver Prints Signed by Leonard Freed please contact Ralph Brill at info@brillgallery109.com.