Vancouver Pop Festival
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| 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 |
| Founded by | Candi Promotions |
The Vancouver Pop Festival was a Canadian rock festival held at the Paradise Valley Resort in Squamish, British Columbia. The dates of the festival were August 22, 23 and 24, 1969.[1] It was produced by Candi Promotions.
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Lineup
Due to problems with paid attendance, only some of the acts listed below actually performed. It has been claimed that the Grateful Dead did not perform[1] but Jerry Garcia biographer Blair Jackson disputes this, and speculates 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):
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "This Day In History: August 24, 1969". Vancouver Sun. August 24, 2012. Retrieved June 23, 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jackson, Blair (2000). Garcia: An American Life. Penguin. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-140-29199-5.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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