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Atlanta Pop Festival July 1969

The Atlanta Pop Festival was held on the 4th and 5th of July 1969 and...

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Sound Festival 71, Roskilde, Denmark 1971

Held on Sat Aug 28, 1971 - Sun Aug 29, 1971 this was...

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Newport Jazz Festival July 1969

Newport Jazz Festival was a long running jazz fest but in July 1969 it opened...

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Mantra-Rock Dance, Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco. January 29, 1967

What was soon known as a rock festival, didn’t really exist until 1967. There were...

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California Jam, Ontario, California 1978

In 1974, the first California Jam attracted a quarter of a million people and was...

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Mississippi River Festival 1969 -1980

The Mississippi River Festival was a summer outdoor concert series held from 1969-1980 on the...

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Aachen Open Air Pop Festival, West Germany, July 1970

The Aachen Open Air Pop Festival was a rock festival held at Hauptstadion in Aachen,...

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Lyceum Easter Festival, London, April 1971

One of the UK music scene’s drivers was Tony Stratton-Smith who was both...

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Reading Festival 1971

Reading Festival became the major yearly gathering of the UK's hairy hoards all...

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New York Pop - Randall's Island's July 1970

In July 1970 on New York's Randall's Island, an event billed as "New York's Pop...
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1969 - The Year Of The Festival

1969 was The Year. More rock festivals were staged in 1969 than in any other....

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Denver Pop Festival, Mile High Stadium, June 1969

Held between 27 - 29 June 1969, this festival went down in festival history as...

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