Asbury Park Music+Film Festival 2018
Music Legacy

Riding high in the turbulent 1970s, a decade of winters of discontent– Vietnam, Richard Nixon, gas shortages resorting to odd-even days– music was the center core for sanity. New Jersey’s homegrown country rock band, Kinderhook Creek, paralleled the rise of Bruce Springsteen on the college campus circuit. They were only unsigned band to perform at the Schaefer Summer Music Festival in Central Park and were hailed as the next great band to come out of Jersey in the heyday of John Scher’s Capitol Theatre, Passaic. Despite their immense popularity, Kinderhook never got a record deal.