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* [[Split Enz]], Nambassa 1979, relaunching their career with a new line-up.
* [[The Little River Band]], Nambassa 1979, with [[Glenn Shorrock]].
* [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]], Nambassa 1978, like Split Enz, Australia's early developers of theatre rock and costume extravaganza.<ref>[http://www.aswas.com/skyhooks/ Skyhooks<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420125434/http://www.aswas.com/skyhooks/ |date=2008-04-20 }}</ref>
* [[John Mayall]], Nambassa 1981. Pioneer of [[British blues]] in the 1960s and 1970s.
* [[Dizzy Gillespie]], Nambassa 1981.
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* Dr. [[Jim Cairns]], Nambassa 1981. Former deputy [[Prime Minister of Australia]] and Labor [[Treasurer]] in the [[Australia]]n government who opposed Australia's involvement in the [[Vietnam War]] and in 1970 led a protest against the war. He resigned from parliament in 1977 to devote his life to the [[counter-cultural]] movement.
* The [[Twin Oaks Community]] eco community from [[Louisa County, Virginia]] sent a delegation of six people to the 1981 Nambassa five-day celebration. Their workshop contributions were well received.
* [[Eva Rickard]], Nambassa 1979. Vocal agitator for return of [[Raglan, New Zealand|Raglan]] golf course land to the Tainui Awhiro people from whom it was taken during World War II. Gave a number of powerful lectures, on aerial railway and the main stage. Nambassa is sympathetic towards many [[indigenous peoples of Oceania|indigenous]] Māori land claims.<ref>[http://www.raglan.net.nz/mrs_eva_rickard.htm Mrs Eva Rickard 1925 - 1997<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101161252/http://www.raglan.net.nz/mrs_eva_rickard.htm |date=2007-01-01 }}</ref>
* [[Tim Shadbolt]], Nambassa 1978, 1979 and 1981. [[Political activist]] and workshop participant. In the 1970s, he founded a commune and concrete cooperative at Huia. He wrote an autobiography, ''Bullshit and Jellybeans''.
* Jonathon Daemion: Nambassa 1978, 1979 and 1981. Canadian [[New Age]] [[Personal development]] initiator.
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* On a per-capita basis, the 1979 Nambassa festival was over 10 times bigger than the famous 1969 [[Woodstock Festival]]. [[Swami Satchidananda]], who also opened Woodstock ten years previously said, "This is better than Woodstock- you've got it made, lead the world".<ref>''Nambassa: A New Direction'', edited by Colin Broadley and Judith Jones, [[A. H. & A. W. Reed]], 1979.{{ISBN|0-589-01216-9}}</ref>
* As Nambassa sought to demonstrate the practical ideals of alternative lifestyle, alcohol and meat could not be purchased at any Nambassa event. However, festival patrons were welcome to bring their own if they so desired.
* On the Friday night before the 1979 festival was officially opened, the festival [[File:People pix in the village.jpg|thumb|235px|right|1981 Nambassa Village Market]] attendance had already reached its maximum capacity. At 3 am Saturday morning Peter was on the phone negotiating paddocks from neighboring farms, while Fred, Mike and Bernie were out in the dead of night with bolt cutters, removing fences to allow cars and campers into newly acquired festival acreage. By 11 am Saturday morning on opening day, the traffic [[police]] closed the festival, and were telling people to go home, announcing on radio that the event could accommodate no more patrons. They ordered the organizers to remove the entry gates to free the roads, as vehicles and pedestrians were banked up in all directions for some 20 kilometers. But still they arrived. Some 5 kilometers towards Waihi a tent city spontaneously arose on a neighboring farm where approximately 15,000 people parked and then walked the final leg into the festival site. Others abandoned their vehicles in Waihi itself and made the [[pilgrimage]] to Nambassa on foot.<ref name=autogenerated2>Nambassa Festival, a two-hour musical film documentary which had five crews working on it, New Zealand, 1980 [http://events.filmarchive.org.nz/event.php?eventInstanceID=607&eventID=143 The New Zealand Film Archive / Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070409092304/http://events.filmarchive.org.nz/event.php?eventInstanceID=607&eventID=143 |date=2007-04-09 }}</ref>
* [[Nudity]] was a factor at all Nambassa festivals. In an atmosphere of openness and compelling [[spirituality|spiritual]] flow, a sense of personal freedom and discovery prevailed and this led to a considerable amount of nudity in the most innocent sense. Thousands of people simply got naked and wandered the festivals with little or no clothing.
* Due to post 1978 festival intimidation by the media concerning the public smoking of [[marijuana]] at Nambassa, and whether the police were going to act on it in 1979, 58 people were arrested for [[cannabis (drug)|cannabis]] on the first day of Nambassa 1979. As a response, tens of thousands of festival goers marched up the hill of the main [[auditorium]] to the police compound, threatening to storm it if the arrests did not cease. [[Festival]] organiser Peter Terry arranged a meeting with the police principals and advised them that they had made their point. He told the police that they themselves had become the focus of disruption, threatening the peaceful outcome of the event. He advised the police that if the arrests continued then he too would join the [[civil disobedience]] campaign to have them removed from the festival site. The police discontinued their arrest policy. Peter Terry was advised that the [[New Zealand Defence Force]] had been placed on standby as a precaution to any further [[protest]] directed at the [[police]].<ref name=autogenerated2 />
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===Film===
'''''Nambassa Festival''''', a two-hour musical film documentary which had five crews working on it, New Zealand, 1980 [https://web.archive.org/web/20110606080806/http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=280&year=2004&month=09&day=26&Itemid=0 The New Zealand Film Archive / Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua] The film (50 minute version) was part of the New Zealand Film Commissions entry to the 1980 [[Cannes Film Festival]]. Director/editor, Philip Howe. Production company: Nambassa Trust, Peter Terry and Dale Farnsworth.
===Radio===
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* [http://www.myspace.com/nambassa 155 Photos, videos and interests]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/nambassa2000 YouTube video snippets of the 1979 Nambassa Festival]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131113201017/http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/enzology/ep05 Enzology is National Radio's documentary covering the history of New Zealand's most iconic band - and Split Enz at Nambassa]
* [http://collections.soundarchives.co.nz/search.do?id=42983&db=object&page=1&view=detail Documentary:INSIGHT 79 - NAMBASSA]
* [http://www.converge.org.nz/evcnz/resources/ohu.html New Zealand Government's "Ohu" land settlement scheme from 1974 to the present day.]
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