Hippiefest returns to Dallas this Thursday (29july09), at the Nokia Theater, for a 3rd year to celebrate the music and bands of rock's most important decade; an age that would shape the musical landscape for years to come. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the summer of '68, a year that, according to Time Magazine "changed the world." That is no less true for 68's music than its politics and social revolution, so come take a trip back in time and experience musical pioneers like Jack Bruce of Cream; Eric Burdon & The Animals; The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie; Badfinger; Melanie; and Jonathan Edwards.

Tour creator Toby Ludwig explains to Billboard Online: "For years I've been wanting to put out a socially conscious show, because our times are similar to my childhood, which was in the '60s. There are so many concerts out there that don't make a social statement. It's important to be aware of who we are and what we're doing as a country," Ludwig says. "Sometimes the best way to do it is through a concert."

Hippiefest features several musicians who performed at the Monterey Pop Festival and the original Woodstock. The 22-date tour kicks off in Phoenix, AZ on July 11.

Hippiefest has been praised as "A taste of Woodstock without the mud and bad acid" (Miami Herald), "guaranteed to get boomers misty-eyed enough to fog up their bifocals" (Newsday). The NY Post simply declared, "No shoes, no shirt, no problem."

A full line of flower power paraphernalia such as tie-dye t-shirts, skirts, caps, bags, stickers and posters will be available throughout the tour.

Hippiefest is produced by Toby Ludwig and Ron Hausfeld of Flower Power Concerts, Inc.

For those who might need/want a map showing the locations of all of our upcoming Reunion Activities (Aug 13-15), we have placed one on the Invitation & Maps page of this site.

Official Invitation & Information

The official invitation form for our upcoming 40th High School Reunion is now available. It contains a complete summary of all important information concerning the Reunion and the planned activities. Click here to go to the Invitation page.

Unfortunately, the Crawfish Boil was rained out. A few hardy souls were there from the beginning --- before it started raining, but within an hour fierce winds and harsh rains opened up, forcing many people to abandon their plans for chowing down on the 1,000 pounds of Mud Bugs and instead to head for the nearest restaurant for steak and potatoes^*. The only upside is that those Classmates of ours who live out of town were spared making their long drives for nothing.

But, hey, don't forget next year! Hopefully Rick's Crawfish Boil will live to see yet another day.

^* Don't ask me, ask Dan Quayle.

We've noticed that several people accidentally entered typos when entering their registration information --- sometimes, even their own names. Today, we've corrected all mistakes we could find, converted several lower-case entries to upper-case, and so on. It's entirely possible that we made mistakes ourselves in doing so. So if you notice problems with your Registration data, please go to the Register page, find your entry, and click on the Edit Info button. This will then reopen your registration record and let you change it to your heart's content.

The Events page has been updated to include the latest "thinking" on the Reunion Activities, themes, locations, food, etc. Be sure to check out this information.

We've finally gotten around to reactivating the blog for this reunion site. The blog will be largely devoted to posting news and information items, both those relating to our reunion itself and those to updates to this website itself. So you might just want to check back here regularly.

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