It wasn’t that Chapel Hill sold out of brownie mix, forcing future comedian Lewis Black ’70 to make pot pudding instead of pot brownies. It wasn’t just a circus animal or Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen that signaled Jubilee’s end. And, following the last, “The rock festival phenomenon is dying at last,” Rod Waldorf ’71 wrote in The Daily Tar Heel. Jubilee’s epitaph was being chiseled from that first spring. Fortunately, there are archives to aid memory. Mind-bendingly fun and sometimes chaotic details.īut also a couple of not-so-fun ones. Once an elephant appeared and Joe Cocker melted Kenan Stadium in 1970, Jubilee’s days likely were numbered. Half a century later though, at least one thing is clear: Jubilee ended on a note so high it required no encore, as it seemed destined to do. It’s little wonder why some had to place lost-and-found ads afterward for their puppies (part Collie), kittens (calico-Siamese mix) and cameras (Kodak, 35 mm). But also, well, some of you probably had, let’s say, too much fun on those fields to conjure too many of the particulars. When it comes to the three-day outdoor music festival called Jubilee that was held on Carolina’s campus each spring from 1963 to 1971, plenty of reasons for both exist after 50 years.įor one, that historic period in the United States came into better focus as the decades passed. Whenever hindsight travels through enough time, objects may appear both hazier and clearer. One of Carolina’s - from Chuck Berry to Johnny Cash to Joe Cocker - was an unforgettable Jubilee. JAmerica crossed many cultural bridges between 19. Lend Me Your Ears and I’ll Sing You a Song
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