Event
The Monterey Pop Festival begins and is held for 3 days
16 Jun 1967 · 36.59° N, 121.86° W
What the records say
- When
- 16 Jun 1967
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 36.59° N, 121.86° W
- Description
- The Monterey Pop Festival begins and is held for 3 days.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Monterey International Pop Festival.
Monterey International Pop Festival
Three-day concert in California in 1967
The Monterey International Pop Festival was a three-day music festival held June 16–18, 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 the introduction of Otis Redding to a mass American audience.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Monterrey (California) se lleva a cabo el Monterey Pop Festival”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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