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Published: Monday, June 11, 2007 at 11:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, June 11, 2007 at 11:00 a.m.

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Lindsay Hassett, aka "Betty Biodiesel" dresses up for the Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa, Friday June 8, 2007.
Kent Porter / Press Democrat

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Photos: Harmony Gallery

If you stumbled into the Harmony Festival around dusk Friday and saw Brian Wilson winding through Beach Boys classics, you might think, "here we go again, another round of nostalgia for aging Boomer hippies."

Think again.

For the past three years, festival organizers have targeted a younger demographic to complement the loyal followers who've been flocking since it started 29 years ago as the Health and Harmony Festival in a field at Sonoma State University.

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