John ‘Jake’ Kennedy has more than 30 years’ experience in the management and delivery of large-scale

events across a diverse range of entertainment and cultural areas. He spent close to 20 years as a key

member of U2’s production management team and was Production Manager and later Tour Director on

Zoo TV and Pop Mart tours which played to a total of 10m people worldwide. He was Project Director for

the Woodstock 1994 and Woodstock 1999 Music and Arts Festivals in USA. Each event attracted approx.

500,000 people to two different small towns in up-state New York and commemorated the original

Woodstock Festival of 1969. Mr. Kennedy has managed arts events at Hannover Expo 2000, at the JFK

Centre for Performing Arts in Washington DC and for Stockholm 2000, the New Year’s Eve 2000 event

attended by 750,000 people in Stockholm harbour. He has considerable experience of project

management work in Third World countries, having managed the installation of power generation projects

for APR Energy LLC. Most recently he has been producer of several music led made for TV Programs in

Ireland, Germany and UK.

John’s tunes:

1. Streets - U2

2. Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Tabhair dom do Lamh – Planxty

3. Running on Empty – Jackson Brown

4. Woodstock – Mathews Southern Comfort (prefer this to Joni Mitchel original)