The New Penelope and Its Era (1965-1970) The New Penelope and Its Era (1965-1970) ARCMTL
Sonny Greenwich was just starting out as a Montreal jazz guitarist when he played at the New Penelope. He went on to record numerous albums and is now […]
Pierre Huet was a songwriter with the 1970s Montreal rock band Beau Dommage, author of the book En 67 tout était beau, and fan of The New Penelope. […]
This picture shows the crowd of young people attending a Muddy Waters concert at The New Penelope in 1968.
Richard King, a friend of Gary Eisenkraft, talks about the arrests during a love-in, as well as the general intolerance towards Hippies in Montreal in the 1960s. Transcription: […]
In this interview excerpt, Alan Brown, former band member of the popular band The Sidetrack, remembers the danger of having long hair in Montreal in the 1960s and […]
In this clip, The Sidetrack is playing on the gazebo on Mount Royal in the summer of 1967. The event is one of the 3 love-in concerts that […]
A young couple is walking on a street, downtown Montreal, at night. They meet another couple and they exchange a few words. In the background, the sign reads […]
In this excerpt, a young man enters The New Penelope on Sherbrooke street at night. We then see him inside the empty concert venue, walking on the stage […]
This ad from 1968 announces the first screening of the film High at the Cinéma Guy, in downtown Montreal. As implied by the ad, the Montreal public had […]
The Mothers of Invention singer, Frank Zappa (right), hanging out with the crowd before their show at The New Penelope, in January 1967. Uh, no, I missed Frank […]
Photograph of a member of the crowd sitting down at The New Penelope, before or after one of The Mothers of Invention concerts. They are reading a review […]
In 2015, ARCMTL interviewed Paul Kirby and Adriana Kelder, founders and editors of Logos magazine. In this excerpt, Kirby refers to the contribution of Vietnam War American draft […]
