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Big Cypress was the fifth and largest of seven weekend-long festivals hosted by the rock band Phish. The event took place on the eve of the millennium - December 30 and 31, 1999, at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation near the Big Cypress National Preserve in southern Florida. 85,000 people attended, a number surpassing many of the other huge rock and pop concerts that night, including shows by Sting, Barbra Streisand, and Elton John. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 268 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (336 × 752 pixel, file size: 52 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) my ticket from Big Cypress I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document...
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Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Largest metro area Miami Area Ranked 22nd - Total 65,795[1] sq mi (170,304[1] km²) - Width 361 miles (582 km) - Length 447 miles (721 km) - % water 17. ...
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Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director. ...
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE[1][2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a multiple Grammy- and Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ...
In a 2000 cover story for Entertainment Weekly, three of the four Phish members declared Big Cypress to be the greatest Phish concert ever. It was also voted as the most popular Phish show ever by fans in the final volume of The Pharmer's Almanac. It was also the longest Phish concert ever, culminating in a seven-hour second set from 11:30pm New Year's Eve to sunrise New Year's Day . Phish was the only band at the event, performing five sets of music over two nights. As fans left the concert area the speakers played the Beatles' "Here comes the Sun". See also: 2000 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2000 Record labels established in 2000 other events of 2000 list of years in music 2000s in music // John Tavener is knighted in the New Years Honours List. ...
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Peter Jennings reported on the huge audience in an episode of ABC World News Tonight. The band's performance of "Heavy Things" was broadcast during ABC's millennium coverage. Following the song, at Anastasio's request, fans chanted the word "cheesecake" instead of cheering to confuse viewers at home. At the beginning of the band's legendary seven-hour second set, guitarist Trey Anastasio mentioned that the band had portable toilets onstage so they could use the restroom during the marathon set, and a team of security guards lined the stage to prevent band members from "wimping out" and trying to leave the stage. Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a rock star Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. ...
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Trey Anastasio (born Ernesto Giuseppe Anastasio III on September 30, 1964)[1][2][3] is an American guitarist, composer, and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. ...
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