Vancouver Pop Festival
Vancouver Pop Festival | |
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Genre | Rock, pop, etc. |
Dates | August 22, 23 and 24, 1969 |
Location(s) | Squamish, British Columbia Canada |
Years active | 1969 |
Founders | Candi Promotions |
The Vancouver Pop Festival was a rock festival held at the Paradise Valley Resort in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. The dates of the festival were August 22, 23 and 24, 1969.[1] It was produced by Candi Promotions.
Neither the Grateful Dead nor Strawberry Alarm Clock played. A band named Crow was the surprise hit for those who liked hard rock. Bikers provided an uncomfortable, "avoid taking hallucinogens" vibe.
Lineup
Due to problems with paid attendance, only some of the acts listed below performed. It has been claimed that the Grateful Dead did not perform[1] but Jerry Garcia biographer Blair Jackson disputed this, and speculated the Dead took the gig to move on from their poor performance at the Woodstock festival a week earlier.[2] The groups playing at the festival included (in alphabetical order):
- Canned Heat
- A Group called Smith
- The Chambers Brothers
- Chicago Transit Authority
- Alice Cooper
- Crome Syrcus
- Crow
- Flying Burrito Brothers
- The Grass Roots
- Grateful Dead[2]
- The Guess Who
- Love
- Taj Mahal
- Brownie McGhee
- Merryweather
- Motherlode
- Poco
- The Rascals
- Little Richard
- Merrilee Rush
- Strawberry Alarm Clock
- Sonny Terry
- The Byrds, interrupted by drunken Bikers, poor security
See also
References
- ^ a b "This Day In History: August 24, 1969". Vancouver Sun. August 24, 2012. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
- ^ a b Jackson, Blair (2000). Garcia: An American Life. Penguin. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-140-29199-5.
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