sentences:  This was the roaring seventies and countercultural idealism was in full swing.The first 1978 Nambassa festival had been successful and some of the profits from this event were drafted into their Winter Show.To make this event a reality, the Nambassa core group, who were based in the country villages of Waihi and Waikino at the foot of the ecologically sensitive Coromandel Peninsula, temporarily moved to the city and hired the St John youth camp west of Auckland, from where this production was implemented.