In the summer of 1970, a train carrying Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, The Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Buddy Guy and Janis Joplin rolled from Toronto to Calgary, stopping for scheduled ...

THINKFilm has acquired “Festival Express,” the chronicle of a Canada’s 1970 answer to Woodstock. The film, which debuted at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival, features performances by Janis ...

Decked out in a flaming-red mini, a groovy belt, and heels, Sylvia Tyson purred out a funky down-home version of "See See Rider", backed by Ian Tyson, Great Speckled Bird, and members of the Grateful ...

The hippie-era rock-festival documentary is sort of its own genre, with parameters established by D.A. Pennebaker's Monterey Pop: The prototypical entry combines stylishly shot, energetic performances ...

Festival Express, the 1970s train tour with The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and other rock greats was forgotten for nearly 30 years. Now, it inspires a new generation of traveling festivals, including ...

“Festival Express,” a documentary shot in 1970, forgotten and finally edited decades later, is one of the great rock ‘n’ roll movies, a treasure trove of music and a wildly entertaining chronicle of a ...

Festival Express is the documentary of a legendary rock 'n' roll revue that crossed Canada during the summer of '70. Although the Summer of Love was more or less dead by the end of 1969, many of the ...

BARNEVELD — Climb aboard for the wildest rock n’ roll ride on rails ever when John Stewart’s Classic Rock Film Series presents “Festival Express” for a free, one-time only screening at 7 p.m.

The most amazing thing about Festival Express is that it exists. Thirty-four years after rock giants Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, the Band and others stormed Canada by train on a concert tour, ...

A documentary by Bob Smeaton. Featuring Janis Joplin, the Band, Buddy Guy, and the Grateful Dead. Rating unavailable. Back in the summer of 1970, some of the top bands of the Woodstock era travelled ...

"Festival Express" brings to light long-dormant footage from a summer 1970 whistle-stop railway tour across Canada by the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Band, Buddy Guy and other less familiar but ...

Within the realm of rock and roll lore there is one music festival that holds a special place as being one of the best festivals of all time. Now it wasn't the biggest festival. Nor was it the loudest ...