ABOUT RETROFEST

What You Need to Know

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About Retrofest: Information

RETROFEST: WHERE CLASSIC ROCK AND PHILANTHROPY MEET

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Organized by Allan Spielman of Retrofest in partnership with Ground Central of Lynbrook, the Revival will celebrate the 51st Anniversary of the famous Bath Blues and Progress Music Festival of 1970 with a musical lineup to sample the original Music and Arts Festival experience. The show will be held on Sunday, May 23, 2021 from 1:00pm – 800pm.

Retrofest is an ongoing grassroots effort that recreates famous festivals of the late 60s through early 70s. All participants are donating their time. All ages welcome, no admission fee, suggested donation $10 per adult.

OUR MISSION

To help revitalize the great genre of music from the great Pop festivals of the late 60's - early 70's
To use music as a vehicle for doing good
To create opportunities for musicians young and old to relive the genre and get back on the stage.
Over $60,000 raised since 1/1/2015

PAST RETROFESTS (OVER 70,000 RAISED)

Retrofest I   Woodstock 69 Tribute 6/3/05 Blue Parrot, Massapequa
Retrofest II Woodstock 69 Tribute  9/24/05 The Pool House, Bellmore   The Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief $200 Raised
Retrofest III Woodstock 69 & Monterey Pop 12/3/05 Sunset Grill, Seaford   Leukemia and Lymphoma Society $300 Raised
Retrofest IV 1960's Pop Fest Tribute  2/4/06 Sunset Grill, Seaford   Association of Children with Downs Syndrome (ACDS). $400 Raised
Retrofest V 1960's Pop Fest Tribute 3/25/06 Whoville, Bethpage   Rick Walsh Scholarship Foundation $700 Raised
Retrofest VI  1960's Pop Fest Tribute 5/20/06 Odins, Freeport   HealthyPlanet $150 Raised
Retrofest VII  1960's Pop Fest Tribute 7/8/06 Backstage, Woodmere   Sunrise Day Camp $1,200 Raised
Retrofest VIII  1960s Pop Fest Tribute 9/16/06 Sunset Grill, Seaford   John Heffernan of the Bullys and John Puckett of 100 % Pure. $433 Raised
Retrofest IX 1960's Pop Fest Tribute 12/23/06 Backstage, Woodmere   Alyn Children's Hospital in Jerusalem Over $500 Raised
Retrofest X Woodstock 1969 Tribute 4/12/07 Triad Theater, NYC   Feel The Music $800 Raised
Retrofest XI  Monterrey Pop Festival Tribute 5/12/07 Sunset Grill, Seaford   Sunrise Day Camp $700 Raised
Retrofest  XII “Psychedelic Six Pack" 10/6/07 Sunset Grill, Seaford   St Baldricks Children's Cancer Research Over $1,700 Raised , 60 phones collected
Retrofest XIII “Psychedelic Six Pack" 12/1/2007 MickyMo's Woodmere Cooley's Amenia $600 Raised
Retrofest XIV Woodstock 1969 Tribute 3/13/08 Triad Theater, NYC   Reach Out for Youth with Crohns and Colitis $2000 Raised
Retrofest XV Watkins Glen Summer Jam 1973 4/05/08 Sunset Grill, Seaford   Helen Keller National Center of Sands Point $3035 Raised
Retrofest XVI Monterrey Pop Festival Tribute 6/19/08 Triad Theater, NYC Save One Person - Save the World $800 Raised
Retrofest XVII Watkins Glen Summer Jam 1973 10/25/08 Sunset Grill, Seaford Helen Keller National Center of Sands Point $800 Raised
Retrofest XVIII  Woodstock 1969 Tribute  11/22/08 Sunset Grill, Seaford SUNRISE DAY CAMP $1400 Raised
Retrofest XIX|  Tribute to Paul Butterfield 3/14/2009 Sunset Grill, Seaford   The Paul Butterfield Fund and Society (PBFS) $715 Raised
Retrofest XX Woodstock 1969 Tribute 4/25/2009 Whoville, Bethpage   CancerCare Fighting Lung Cancer $3650 Raised
Retrofest XXI Woodstock 1969 Tribute 9/10/2009 9/10/2009   Triad Theater, NYC   Benefit for The Max's of Kansas City Project $200 Raised
Retrofest XXII  Woodstock 1969 Tribute 11/21/2009 Sunset Grill, Seaford Benefit for The Long Island Crisis Center  Over $3700 Raised
Retrofest XXIII Monterrey Pop Festival Tribute  4/10/2010  Sunset Grill, Seaford  CancerCare  Fighting Lung Cancer  $1260 Raised
Retrofest XXV TEXAS POP FEST 1969 12/11/2010 BUCKLEYS IRISH PUB BENEFIT THE FREEPORT ANIMAL SHELTER.
Retrofest XXVI   Cincinnati Pop Festival of 1970 3/2/11 Whoville, Bethpage The Soldiers Project
Retrofest XXVII   Woodstock 1969 Tribute 8/25/11 Bartini Bar Babylon Bobbi and the Stays
Retrofest XXVIII Watkins Glen Summer Jam 1973 11/10/2011 Sunset Grill, Seaford Benefiting the SaveKitty Foundation
Retrofest XXIX Monterrey Pop Festival Tribute  11/17/2011   Whoville, Bethpage Benefit for The Long Island Crisis Center
Retrofest XXX Whoville, Bethpage Banding Together Against Bulling 5/2012
Retrofest XXXII 1970 ISLE OF WIGHT MUSIC FESTIVAL' 11/1/2012 Whoville Bar and Grill 339 Broadway Bethpage Benefit FOR Respond & Rebuild
Retrofest XXXIII BAckstage, Woodmere 12/29/2012 Benefit FOR Respond & Rebuild
Retrofest XXXIV Monterey Pop Fest 1967 Backstage, Woodmere 4/20/2013 Richard M. Brodsky Foundation
Retrofest XXXV Watkins Glen Summer Jam 1973 6/19/2013 SThe Hub, Island Park Benefiting The Michelle Bracco Fund
RETROFEST XXXVI A Tribute to the Powder Ridge Rock Festival of 1970 11/23/2013 TO BENEFIT THE LONG ISLAND CRISIS CENTER
Retrofest XXXVII Backstage, Woodmere 12/14/2013 Richard M. Brodsky Foundation
Retrofest 40 TrIbute to the Great Pop Festivals of 1967 through 1974 Backstage, Woodmere 12/13/2014 Richard M. Brodsky Foundation
Retrofest 41 Tribute to the Pop Festivals of 1967 through 1974, Backstage, Woodmere 12/12/2015 Benefiting the Richard M. Brodsky Foundation
Retrofest 42 Tribute to CAL JAM 1974 and 1978. Blue Parrot 5/7/2016 Act 1's Bros & Sis Banding Together For The Kids
Retrofest 43 A Tribute to Monterey Pop Festival 1967, Sunset Grill, Seaford  11/19/2016 Benefiting Bobbi & the Strays Animal Shelter of Freeport
Retrofest 46 A Tribute to the Atlantic City Pop Festival of 1969 Sunset Grill, Seaford 11/18/2017 Benifting Relay for Life. American Cancer Society.
Retrofest 50 Woodstock 1969 Tribute Bartini Bar Babylon 7/25/2019 Supporting Patients with Cancer BOLD

RETROFEST IN THE MEDIA

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