Launched in Geneva by Artists Angry with Bourgeois Culture, the Festival La Bâtie Celebrates Its 50th Edition: the Story of a Geneva Woodstock

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In June 1977 in Geneva, a dozen young people, gifted by the local scene, set up an event to promote the so-called "bourgeois" culture. As its 50th edition opens on Tuesday, its artisans tell of its rock birth.To the happiness of the woods. This weekend in June 1977, they are 25,000 tangled, according to the estimates of the time, to zigzaguer on the hill of the Bâtie in Geneva. The Beau Lac de Basle, rock group that the farcers of John Cipolata …