Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, the longstanding annual music and environmental festival that went on hiatus in 2016 as the organization focused on the $850,000 restoration of its namesake sloop, returned to Croton Point Park on June 17 and 18.
The event, which was founded by Pete Seeger in the late 1960s as a fundraiser for the nonprofit, involves 1,000 volunteers. The headliners this year included Lake Street Dive, a reunion of Cry Cry Cry (Lucy Kaplansky, Richard Shindell and Dar Williams), Nick Lowe, Los Lobos, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Osborne, Josh Ritter, Tommy Emmanuel and Alejandro Escovedo.
Photos by Ross Corsair
The sloop Clearwater on the right
A couple who attended the festival, with the Clearwater in the background
A line of volunteers pass period trunks and barrels filled with letters addressed to Congress. The "cargo of concerns" was headed to Washington, D.C., aboard the Clearwater, but the sloop was forced to turn back due to bad weather on the Atlantic coast.
The day of the festival was overcast with occasional heavy rain.
A cloth backdrop of the Clearwater on one of the eight stages
Corsair was named the 2023 Photographer of the Year by the New York Press Association. Location: Philipstown. Languages: English. Area of expertise: Photography
Due to terrible weather in the Atlantic Ocean (the sloop is a river vessel), the Clearwater was not able to make it all the way to D.C. to deliver the letters and signed petitions, etc. to Congress. However all the letters and petitions will be delivered nonetheless.
Due to terrible weather in the Atlantic Ocean (the sloop is a river vessel), the Clearwater was not able to make it all the way to D.C. to deliver the letters and signed petitions, etc. to Congress. However all the letters and petitions will be delivered nonetheless.