Where have all the flowers gone? In my fist, mothaf***ers!Where have all the flowers gone? In my fist, mothaf***ers!
OK, so you're in San Francisco and you see there's some kind of music festival this weekend called Power To The Peaceful. Do you (a) get decked out in Birkenstocks, beads and an unwashed knit hat; or (b) un-mothball that darkly humorous T-shirt you haven't worn since Jerry Garcia died -- you know, the one that says "Get a life, take a bath, get a job"?
Well, there's no reason for Power To The Peaceful -- happening Saturday, Sept. 9 -- to evoke either extreme reaction. Instead, musician/filmmaker Michael Franti has put together a lineup of bands and DJs that evoke a rainbow coalition of the hipper side of the 1960s. What started out as an event supporting Mumia Abu-Jamal (friends call him "political prisoner"; foes, "cop-killer") has grown through the years. It even ended up with a "Support The Troops" theme, sort of, last year.
Anyway, who can argue with a day of music in the lush Golden Gate Park? Even if you don't like Franti's mix of '60s effects, reggae rhythms and gravelly but lyrical song-speak, there's bound to be something else to enjoy. Festival trailer and this year's artist lineup after the jump.
And if you flash the two-prong salute instead of the peace sign, I promise not to tell!
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Artist Lineup
- Michael Franti and Spearhead
- Blackalicious
- New Monsoon
- Los Mocosos
- Sila and the Afrofunk Experience
- Flipsyde
- The Durgas
- T-K.A.S.H.
- Rupa and the April Fishes
- Brett Dennen
- Radioactive
