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Powder Ridge Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut. August 1st & 2nd 1970

In the first half of 1970, plans were afoot for a festival in Middlefield, Connecticut....

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Reading Festival 1973

The Reading And Leeds Festivals of today are the UK's longest-running events of their type,...
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The Human Be-In, Golden Gate Park Polo Fields, San Francisco 1967

Festivals had been held for many years in the jazz world but the rock festival...

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Isle Of Wight Festival 1970

600,000 people on an island with a population of just 100,000. Political protesters taking the...
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Palm Beach Music and Art Festival, Florida, 1969

The event was both the first and the last held in Palm Beach. It drew...

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The Us Festival, San Bernardino, California 1983

You'd have thought, after losing upwards of $5million on the previous year's US Festival, Steve...

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Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970

"Get in your car, brother, and get down with the people in Cincinnati. A gathering...
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Bath Festival of Blues And Progressive Music 1970

When they played the Bath Festival of Blues in 1969 , about 12,000 saw Led...

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Seattle Pop Festival, Woodenville, Washington July 1969

Held 25-27 July at Gold Creek Park, Woodenville, Washington. It was $6 for one day,...

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Watkins Glen July 28, 1973

This was, by any standards, a massive festival. For a while it held the world...

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Knebworth Festival 1976

The Rolling Stones were booked to play at Knebworth and entered right into the spirit...

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A History of the Woodstock Festival - Part 2

This new quartet of businessmen - Lang, Kornfeld, Roseman and Roberts - were worried. They...

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