Amid all the 50th-anniversary remembrances of Woodstock, the names of a few performers are likely to show up as shorthand for that historic weekend in 1969. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, for example, ...

Bert Sommer epitomized the look of the hippie generation, but who remembers him? BETHEL, New York Aug. 15, 2009— -- Do you remember Bert Sommer? Chances are you wouldn't unless you were at ...

May 1985 and Greg Haymes, a.k.a. Sarge Blotto, is kicking off the premier episode of his public access cable show, Sarge Blotto's Hot Seat. The set consists of a couple of lawn chairs and an ashtray ...

Unless you attended Woodstock, it’s unlikely you heard Bert Sommer’s set, the best of the festival’s first day. None of his 10 songs was included in the official Woodstock albums or in the various ...

Singer-songwriter Bert Sommer was a man of many talents. He played his first gig at the Woodstock festival in 1969. Yes, THE Woodstock festival. He starred in the Broadway production of “Hair.” He was ...

What a smile--two kids in blue--torn jeans, old leather camera bag, blue midriff t-shirt, long hair, amazing smile, at the Woodstock music festival, August 1969. Psylvia, dressed in a pink Indian ...