Monterey Pop Festival (1967)

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf music festival
gptkbp:attendance approximately 50,000
gptkbp:city gptkb:Monterey
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:documentedIn gptkb:Monterey_Pop_(film)
gptkbp:duration 3 days
gptkbp:endDate 1967-06-18
gptkbp:genre gptkb:rock
folk
pop
psychedelic rock
soul
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Monterey Pop Festival (1967)
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Altamont_Free_Concert
gptkb:Isle_of_Wight_Festival
gptkb:Woodstock_Festival
gptkbp:location gptkb:Monterey_County_Fairgrounds
gptkbp:mediaType music festival
gptkbp:notableEvent Janis Joplin's breakthrough performance
Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire
The Who destroyed their instruments
gptkbp:notablePerformer gptkb:Janis_Joplin
gptkb:Jimi_Hendrix
gptkb:Otis_Redding
gptkb:The_Who
gptkb:Grateful_Dead
gptkb:Jefferson_Airplane
gptkb:Simon_&_Garfunkel
gptkb:Ravi_Shankar
gptkb:The_Mamas_&_the_Papas
gptkbp:organizer gptkb:Derek_Taylor
gptkb:John_Phillips
gptkb:Lou_Adler
gptkb:Alan_Pariser
gptkbp:philanthropy profits donated to charity
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Fantasy_Fair_and_Magic_Mountain_Music_Festival
gptkbp:recordedAt gptkb:D.A._Pennebaker
gptkbp:significance helped popularize Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin
first major American rock festival
launch of the Summer of Love
gptkbp:startDate 1967-06-16
gptkbp:state gptkb:California
gptkbp:website https://montereypopfestival.com/
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Big_Brother_and_the_Holding_Company
gptkb:Monterey,_California_(original_location)
gptkb:The_Grass_Roots
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6