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BOOM Festival was a rock music festival held annually throughout SFR Yugoslavia between 1971 and 1978. The festival was held for the first time in 1971 in Maribor [1][2] and for the last time in 1978 in Novi Sad. [3] The festival featured numerous prominent acts of the Yugoslav rock scene, and five various artists live albums were recorded on ...
Bill Graham (born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca; January 8, 1931 – October 25, 1991) was a German-born American impresario and rock concert promoter. In the early 1960s, Graham moved to San Francisco, and in 1965, began to manage the San Francisco Mime Troupe. [2] He had teamed up with local Haight Ashbury promoter Chet Helms to organize a benefit ...
Capacity. 55,000. The Erie Canal "Soda" Pop Festival, also known colloquially as the Bull Island Rock Festival, was a rock festival held on September 2–4, 1972, on Bull Island, a strip of land in Illinois but on the Indiana side of the Wabash River near Griffin. A crowd of an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people attended the concert, four ...
Seattle, Washington. Years active. 1971–2019, 2023–. Founders. City of Seattle. Website. bumbershoot.com. Bumbershoot is an annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington. One of North America's largest such festivals, [1] it takes place every Labor Day weekend (leading up to and including the first Monday of ...
Concert 10 was a rock concert at Pocono International Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, on July 8 and 9, 1972. The event attracted an estimated 200,000 people who were met with hot weather, then cold and a downpour replete with rain and mud. The general atmosphere of the concert was compared to the Woodstock Festival of 1969.
5. Michael Scott Lang (December 11, 1944 – January 8, 2022) [1] was an American concert promoter, producer, and artistic manager who was best known as a co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in 1969. [2] Lang served as the organizer of the event, [3][4] as well as the organizer for its follow-up events, Woodstock '94 and the ill ...
2015-present (revival) Founders. Bill Graham. Day on the Green was a recurring concert in Oakland, California, presented by promoter Bill Graham and his company Bill Graham Presents. Held at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, these events began in 1973 and continued into the early 1990s.
Website. Deeply Vale Festival. The Deeply Vale Festivals were free festivals held near Bury in northwest England in 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979 and at a different site in 1980 and 1981. They are regarded as significant events that united punk music into the festival scene. Anniversary festivals took place in March 2015 and September 2016.