Trucking Across The USA

The organisers of the UK’s Truck Festival are setting up a similar event in the Catskill Mountains in New York.

The Truck bosses are keen to focus on the significance of the location, which is where Woodstock took place in 1969.

“Woodstock represented what was so powerful about the peace and love hippy movement of the sixties and it showcased some of the most groundbreaking musicians of that time (some might say ever),” they said in a statement.

The organisers claim Truck Festival, which has been staged in Oxfordshire for 13 years, is based on “the same basic principles of independence and ethically minded and cooperative production,” as well as a passion for introducing cutting-edge new music.

No acts have been announced but the new three-day event, which will be called Truck America, is expected to take place April 30 to May 2.