Richie Havens: 1941 – 2013

I photographed Richie Havens back in the Winter of 2003 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, during one of the largest anti-war demonstrations against the Iraq Invasion. Havens (72) passes away in Jersey City, NJ on Monday. He was well known as the opening act at the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival, where he played for newly three hours.   ~cg.

NEW YORK, NY.  Musician Richie Havens performing during a grass roots rally organized to oppose the Bush administration’s continued call for war with Iraq. Some 200,000 people filled the streets on the East Side of Manhattan near the United Nations during the demonstration in New York on Saturday, February 15, 2003. © Chet Gordon / The Image Works

 

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