How Upstate New York Built American Festival Culture
From Woodstock ’69 and Watkins Glen’s 600,000 to Mountain Jam, Camp Bisco, and Catbird — how Upstate New York invented and still defines American festival culture.
Author: Eli Thorne
Eli Thorne is 24 years old and already has opinions about your favorite band. A recent graduate of SUNY Albany, he never left — partly because rent is cheap, mostly because the scene kept pulling him back in. Eli covers the underground and DIY circuit, hip-hop, electronic music, and the college venues that mainstream coverage ignores. He finds headliners at 300-capacity clubs before they sell out arenas, and he writes about them like it matters — because it does.