Monterey Pop Festival
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The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. Monterey was the first widely-promoted and heavily-attended rock festival, attracting an estimated 200,000 total attendees with 55,000 to 90,000 people present at the event's peak at midnight on Sunday.
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Performers
Friday, June 16
Saturday, June 17
- Canned Heat
- Big Brother and the Holding Company
- Country Joe and the Fish
- Al Kooper
- The Butterfield Blues Band
- The Electric Flag
- Quicksilver Messenger Service
- Steve Miller Band
- Moby Grape
- Hugh Masekela
- The Byrds
- Laura Nyro
- Jefferson Airplane
- Booker T. & the M.G.s
- Otis Redding
Sunday, June 18
- Ravi Shankar
- The Blues Project
- Big Brother and the Holding Company
- The Group With No Name
- Buffalo Springfield
- The Who
- Grateful Dead
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Scott McKenzie
- The Mamas & the Papas
Full Monterey Pop Festival (Set List)
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