The Kate Wolf Music Festival is put on annually by Bob and Sue Barsotti at their Black Oak Ranch five miles north of Laytonville. Bob Barsotti was partners with Bill Graham during the heyday of the Fillmore West and sold his share for millions to buy the Black Oak Ranch. The venue is also the site of The Hog Farm Commune, a highly secretive enterprise that includes The Clown Camp children’s school run by Kate Wolf Music Festival MC Wavy Gravy, where the kids — mostly troubled youth from the city — live in teepees. Wavy Gravy is really Hugh Romney, a professional clown known for his self-effacing humor and devotion to entertaining the patients at children’s hospitals across the country. He was an original member of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters. And he did the Free Food Kitchen at Woodstock.
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