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The Monterey International Pop Festival was a three-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience , the Who and Ravi Shankar , the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and ...
Apr 23, 2017 · The Monterey International Pop Festival takes place at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. A historic 3-day celebration of up and coming artists, relative unknowns and many future legends of the burgeoning rock scene unfolds.
Jun 15, 2017 · But just 50 years ago, there was only one: the Monterey International Pop Festival, which featured more than 30 artists and bands playing over the course of three days in the summer of 1967.
Feb 15, 2023 · Monterey Pop has been called one of the most important events in the history of Rock & Roll music. It was the first major rock festival and rock charity, a forerunner and blueprint for charity concerts such as Live Aid, Farm Aid, as well as the commercial festival landscape of today.
Apr 14, 2017 · Monterey Pop, held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the fairgrounds in Monterey, Calif., down the coast from San Francisco, was pivotal in rock’s evolution as a force in the entertainment...
Apr 4, 2017 · The impetus behind the staging of the Monterey International Pop Festival evolved one night in 1967, at Mama Cass Elliot’s house. Paul McCartney, John and Michelle Phillips, Cass and Lou Adler were discussing, along with other highly inspired issues, the general perception of Rock ‘n’ Roll…and that although jazz was ...
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival. On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the beginning of the Summer of Love, the Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll.
Jun 16, 2017 · On the 50th anniversary of the Monterey International Pop Festival, here's a look at how TIME covered the original concert.
Jun 26, 2020 · The Monterey International Pop Festival brought together artists and bands previously unknown on the national stage and gave them a platform that transformed music and culture. Groups such as the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and the Mamas and the Papas defined the ...
Jun 18, 2024 · Fifty-seven years ago today, the Monterey International Pop Festival — the three-day event that arguably invented the modern music festival — concluded in a blaze of glory. That Sunday boasted...
