In the summer of 1970 producer Barbara Bernstein, then a 21-year-old hippie, traveled across Canada following the Festival Express, a series of rock festivals in Toronto, Winnepeg and Calgary. While the performers - which included some of the greatest musicians of the time: Janis Joplin, the Band, Buddy Guy, Ian and Sylvia, Delaney and Bonnie and Barbara's schoolmates Sha Na Na - traveled and partied in a special train that carried them from festival to festival, Barbara, her friends, and thousands of other young adventurers followed along the Trans Canadian Highway in an improvised caravan of Volkswagon buses, old school buses and panel trucks and other recycled vehicles. In search of nature and rock and roll, Barbara found herself on the road to discovering the meaning of life. The Festival Express was featured in a recent documentary film of the same name that was finally released 25 years after the event. Barbara watched the film being shot but only her elbow made it into the final cut.

In the summer of 1970 producer Barbara Bernstein, then a 21-year-old hippie, traveled across Canada following the Festival Express, a series of rock festivals in Toronto, Winnepeg and Calgary. While the performers - which included some of the greatest musicians of the time: Janis Joplin, the Band, Buddy Guy, Ian and Sylvia, Delaney and Bonnie and Barbara's schoolmates Sha Na Na - traveled and partied in a special train that carried them from festival to festival, Barbara, her friends, and thousands of other young adventurers followed along the Trans Canadian Highway in an improvised caravan of Volkswagon buses, old school buses and panel trucks and other recycled vehicles. In search of nature and rock and roll, Barbara found herself on the road to discovering the meaning of life. The Festival Express was featured in a recent documentary film of the same name that was finally released 25 years after the event. Barbara watched the film being shot but only her elbow made it into the final cut.