Feld Entertainment: 50 years in the spotlight

50 years since Irvin Feld invested his company's future in family entertainment, Feld has plenty of reasons to be optimistic for decades to come, learns Eamonn Forde

Kenneth (right) and his father and mentor, Irvin, at a circus performance in the 1970s

The canonic view of 1967 is that it represented the high water mark of counterculture, starting with the Human Be-In in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in January and reaching its peak in June as The Beatles’ freshly minted Sgt Pepper soundtracked the Summer of Love.

Amid this cultural tumult, Feld Entertainment was born, with a focus not on the generation gap but rather on the enduring power and appeal of family entertainment. In November that year, Irvin Feld acquired…

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