Atlanta International Pop Festival (1970)
- Atlanta International Pop Festival (1970)
The second Atlanta International Pop Festival was a music festival held at the Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia. Originally scheduled for July 3 to July 5 1970, it did not finish until near dawn on the 6th.[West, Kirk (11 September 2002),Liner notes, ""] It was the only successor to the first Atlanta International Pop Festival 1969. The event was promoted by Alex Cooley, who had organised the same event the previous year, as well as the Texas International Pop Festival]Like the Woodstock festival the previous summer, the event was promoted as "three days of peace, love and music." Tickets for the festival were priced at $14. Also like Woodstock, it became an "open event" when the promoter threw open the gates.[ Richard L. Eldredge FOR THE JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, Arts & Entertainment: [http://www.me.umn.edu/~kgeisler/700704.html "What a splash: Recalling Georgia's 'Woodstock'"] ., "The Atlanta Journal and Constitution", 07-04-1995, pp E/07.] and possibly 600,000]Performers included the The Allman Brothers Band, Jethro Tull, Terry Reid,B.B. King, Procol Harum, Jimi Hendrix (just ten weeks before his death), Captain Beefheart, Ravi Shankar, 10 Years After, Johnny Winter, John Sebastian, Mountain, and Spirit.
In 2003, The Allman Brothers Band released a recording of their festival opening and closing performances, "".
Also performaning were The Chambers Brothers (Time has come today) and Poco.
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