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The Newport Pop Festival was a rock festival held in Costa Mesa, California, on August 3–4, 1968. It was the first music concert ever to have more than 100,000 paid attendees. It was the first music concert ever to have more than 100,000 paid attendees.
Devonshire Downs is most widely known for hosting the three-day Newport Pop Festival in June 1969, also known as Newport '69, featuring Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and nearly thirty other top acts. [10]
Festival (stylized as Festival! ) is a 1967 American documentary film about the Newport Folk Festivals of the mid-1960s, and the burgeoning counterculture movement of the era, written, produced, and directed by Murray Lerner .
Newport Pop Festival, held in Costa Mesa, California, in 1968, or sequel, billed as Newport 69, held in Northridge, California in 1969 Newport Beach Film Festival (begun 1999), a film festival held in Newport Beach, California
6 July – Newport Jazz Festival; 11 July – Laurel Pop Festival; 12 July – Summer Pop Festival; 21 July – Schaefer Music Festival – headliners at New York City's Wollman Rink, along with B.B. King; 25 July – Midwest Rock Festival; 27 July – Seattle Pop Festival – the infamous shark episode is alleged to have taken place at this ...
The Newport Folk Festival was cofounded in 1959 by jazz promoter George Wein and music manager Albert Grossman. (The latter is best known for representing Dylan between 1962 and 1970.)
The 1965 Newport Folk Festival was the focal point of the Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. ... which was a departure from his folk music and ultimately changed the pop music genre, the crowd was ...
The Newport Folk Festival has often played host to jaw-dropping surprise performances, none more than Joni Mitchell’s first proper concert in more than 20 years in 2022. ... whose decision to ...