In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the huge outdoor music festival (and social event) held in August of 1969, a community radio station, school district and some budding artists…
In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the huge outdoor music festival (and social event) held in August of 1969, a community radio station, school district and some budding artists from a high school in Fallbrook have teamed together to create a 1960s hippie-themed work of art.
According to KPRI (91.3 FM) General Manager John Fox, the idea for the project came about when the station decided to change call letters from its original sign-on of KOPA to KPRI back in March of 2018. While the new KPRI now stands for Kupa Pala Rez Indians, reflecting the tribe that owns and runs the station, KPRI in the past was one of San Diego’s original “hippie” free-form FM stations, adopting the format part time in 1967, full time in 1968, and continuing until it evolved into “album rock” in 1969.
The original KPRI went off the air in 1984 and is now Spanish music formatted KNLV (106.5 FM). I remember my brother, Victor, listening to the original KPRI when I was young.
