Family Dog concert series at the Avalon Ballroom

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The Family Dog concert series at the Avalon Ballroom was a seminal late-1960s San Francisco rock concert series that helped define the psychedelic music scene and counterculture.

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instanceOf San Francisco music event
psychedelic rock concert series
rock concert series
activePeriod late 1960s
associatedArtForm psychedelic poster art
underground comix culture
associatedWith Chet Helms
Family Dog commune
linked to: Family Dog
audience San Francisco counterculture community
concurrentWith Bill Graham concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium
contributedTo development of the San Francisco Sound
emergence of the Avalon Ballroom as a major rock venue
popularization of psychedelic rock
culturalContext hippie movement
era Summer of Love
feature dance-oriented rock shows
elaborate concert posters
psychedelic light shows
genre psychedelic rock
rock music
influenced light show concert production
psychedelic concert poster art
locatedIn California
San Francisco
United States
location Avalon Ballroom
mediaType live music performance series
notablePerformer Big Brother and the Holding Company
Country Joe and the Fish
Grateful Dead
Janis Joplin
Jefferson Airplane
Moby Grape
Quicksilver Messenger Service
The Charlatans
The Steve Miller Band
organizer Family Dog Productions
partOf 1960s counterculture
San Francisco Sound
promoter Chet Helms
significance helped define the San Francisco counterculture
helped define the psychedelic music scene
startTime 1966
status historical concert series
typicalAttendance youth and college-age audiences

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Chet Helms notableWork Family Dog concert series at the Avalon Ballroom