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The festival was founded in 2010 by Jeff Monser, and is held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California, which was previously home of the Monterey Pop Festival where Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire in 1967. In its first year, the festival began as a one-day event headlining the Dirty Heads and Tribal Seeds. Today, The ...
This is a list of the performers at the Monterey Pop Festival, held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. [1]There were five separate shows during the three-day festival (one on Friday night, two on Saturday and two on Sunday), with each performance approximately four hours in duration.
The festival is held annually on the 20-acre (8 ha), oak-studded Monterey County Fairgrounds, located at 2004 Fairground Road in Monterey, on the third full weekend in September, beginning on Friday. Five hundred top jazz artists perform on nine stages spread throughout the grounds, with 50 concert performances.
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The Monterey International Pop Festival was a three-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. [1] 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 ...
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The hours for the fair varies depending on the gate you enter and leave, event and activity. Main Gate and Blue Gate : 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday to Thursday; and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday to Sunday
The Monterey Pop Festival is a well known precursor to many notable musical and cultural movements throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The fairgrounds claims to still have access to Jimi Hendrix's guitar burn marks, from where he lit his guitar on fire during the 1967 Pop Festival.