Big Sur (disambiguation)

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Big Sur is a region of the central California coast. Other uses include the following:

[edit] Music

• The Big Sur Folk Festival was an annual series of concerts at the Esalen Institute running 1964-1971. The 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival is featured in Celebration at Big Sur, a film starring Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Joni Mitchell.
• "Big Sur" is a song by Mason Jennings from his 2000 self-titled album
• "Big Sur" is a song by The Thrills, appearing on their 2003 album So Much for the City. It also appeared on an episode of the television series The O.C., and appears on the 2004 soundtrack album Music from the OC: Mix 2.
• "Big Sur Moon" is a song by Buckethead from his 1998 album Colma.
• "California Saga: Big Sur" is a song by the Beach Boys from their 1973 album Holland.
• "The Dharma at Big Sur" is an electric violin concerto composed by John Coolidge Adams for the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2003.
• "Going Back to Big Sur", a song by Johnny Rivers, first appears on his 1968 album Realization.
• "Revelation Big Sur" by the Red House Painters appears on their 1996 album Songs for a Blue Guitar.
• Songs from Big Sur is a compilation album of Bobby Darin songs, compiled by Jimmy Scalia and containing folk and protest music written when he lived in a trailer in Big Sur in 1968.

[edit] Books

• Big Sur (novel) is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac.
• Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch is a novel written by Henry Miller.
• A Confederate General From Big Sur is a book by Richard Brautigan about his experiences in Big Sur, published in 1965.
• The Stranger in Big Sur is a book by Lillian Bos Ross.