1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival
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The 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival was a landmark American music festival widely regarded as the first major blues festival in the United States, showcasing many of the genre’s greatest artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6378571 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival Context triple: [Magic Sam, performanceHighlight, 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival]
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A.
Woodstock Festival 1969
Woodstock Festival 1969 was a landmark three-day music and arts festival in upstate New York that became a defining symbol of the 1960s counterculture and peace movement.
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B.
Monterey International Pop Festival (1967)
The Monterey International Pop Festival (1967) was a landmark three-day music festival in California that helped launch the careers of major rock and pop artists and is often credited with ushering in the Summer of Love and the modern era of large-scale music festivals.
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C.
Woodstock Fair
Woodstock Fair is a long-running annual agricultural and community fair in Woodstock, Ontario, featuring livestock shows, midway rides, competitions, and local entertainment.
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D.
New York State Blues Festival
The New York State Blues Festival is a major annual music event in Syracuse that showcases regional and national blues artists.
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E.
Arbor Daze festival
The Arbor Daze festival is an annual community event in Euless, Texas, celebrating trees, environmental stewardship, and local culture with family-friendly activities and entertainment.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival Target entity description: The 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival was a landmark American music festival widely regarded as the first major blues festival in the United States, showcasing many of the genre’s greatest artists.
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A.
Woodstock Festival 1969
Woodstock Festival 1969 was a landmark three-day music and arts festival in upstate New York that became a defining symbol of the 1960s counterculture and peace movement.
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B.
Monterey International Pop Festival (1967)
The Monterey International Pop Festival (1967) was a landmark three-day music festival in California that helped launch the careers of major rock and pop artists and is often credited with ushering in the Summer of Love and the modern era of large-scale music festivals.
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C.
Woodstock Fair
Woodstock Fair is a long-running annual agricultural and community fair in Woodstock, Ontario, featuring livestock shows, midway rides, competitions, and local entertainment.
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D.
New York State Blues Festival
The New York State Blues Festival is a major annual music event in Syracuse that showcases regional and national blues artists.
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E.
Arbor Daze festival
The Arbor Daze festival is an annual community event in Euless, Texas, celebrating trees, environmental stewardship, and local culture with family-friendly activities and entertainment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | music festival ⓘ |
| associatedMovement | late 1960s blues revival in the United States ⓘ |
| associatedWith | University of Michigan ⓘ |
| attendance | approximately 20,000 people ⓘ |
| audienceDemographic | predominantly young white college-age listeners ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| endDate | 1969-08-03 ⓘ |
| featuredArtist |
B.B. King
ⓘ
linked to:
B. B. King
Big Joe Turner ⓘ Big Mama Thornton ⓘ Buddy Guy ⓘ Howlin' Wolf ⓘ J.B. Hutto ⓘ
linked to:
J. B. Hutto
Junior Wells ⓘ Lightnin' Hopkins ⓘ
linked to:
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Luther Allison ⓘ Magic Sam ⓘ Magic Slim ⓘ Muddy Waters ⓘ Otis Rush ⓘ Roosevelt Sykes ⓘ Son House ⓘ T-Bone Walker ⓘ
linked to:
T‑Bone Walker
|
| genre | blues ⓘ |
| legacy |
helped establish Ann Arbor as a significant blues and music festival city
ⓘ
recognized as a pivotal event in bringing traditional blues to wider rock audiences ⓘ |
| location |
Ann Arbor, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ann Arbor
Fuller Flatlands, Ann Arbor ⓘ
linked to:
North Campus, University of Michigan
|
| mediaCoverage | covered by music and underground press of the late 1960s ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bringing together major Chicago, Delta, and Texas blues musicians on one bill
ⓘ
influencing later blues and rock festivals in the United States ⓘ |
| organizer | University of Michigan student organizers ⓘ |
| purpose | to showcase leading African American blues artists to a largely white rock audience ⓘ |
| recordingsReleasedAs | Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969 (live compilation album) ⓘ |
| significance |
first major blues festival in the United States
ⓘ
landmark American music festival ⓘ |
| startDate | 1969-08-01 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival ⓘ |
| year | 1969 ⓘ |
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