Like many historic events, claims are often exaggerated. For many years, the Phun City rock festival held at Ecclesden Common near Worthing, England from 24 July to 26 July 1970 was considered the first large-scale free festival in the UK. Though it was “free,” it, like the famous Woodstock festival, organizers did not intend it to be free. Circumstances dictated the change.
Also, there was the Cambridge Free Festival a year earlier and it was organized as a free festival from the beginning.
Here are photos of the performers and dates. Performers were not paid and some invited performers did not attend. Another page of the programme explains, “Admission to all these concerts is entirely free. This is because every single group taking part is playing for free; the London groups have even had to pay their own expenses to get to Cambridge. So don’t be disappointed if one or two groups don’t turn up.”
Cambridge Midsummer Pop Festival
Roger Kinsey
One of the people responsible for the free festival was Roger Kinsey. He wrote the following:
Hi,
I am pleased to see the site that you have constructed on the Cambridge free festivals. I was instrumental in helping to put the festivals together in 1969/70. My name is Roger Kinsey and at the time I was in a partnership business with two other people operating under the business name of Rufus Manning Associates. We were the leading entertainments management and agency business in Cambridge during those years. many of the bands featured on these festivals were either under our management or we acted as their agent.
For the first festival we worked very closely with the Cambridge Arts group. of which some of the members involved with that Group were also musicians in some of the bands/groups we managed. I was the lynchpin in persuading the then Cambridge City Council Entertainments Manager, Mr David Constant to actually give us the permission to hold the free festival over the three days on Midsummer Common. There was much bargaining and persuasion to be done as the councillors were not at all keen for this to go ahead.
As a result of the festival many local people who lived around Midsummer Common complained afterwards and as many of them were academics and influential persons they had their day and the following year in 1970 we had to move it to Coldhams Common. The poster for that festival was designed by our secretary Steff and I have a very clean and pristine copy of it. I also have a small cine footage of Tuesdays Children ( whom we managed ) playing on the stage at the 1969 festival.
Yours with many memories of those halcyon days of utter chaos and great unreliability of those bands and groups who said they would appear at these festivals
Roger M. Kinsey
Cambridge Midsummer Pop Festival
Steve McDermott
Steve McDermott provided the photos of the program and the festival poster. He wrote:
Hi,
I came across your wonderful archives today, and I noticed that although you mention the 1969 Cambridge Midsummer Pop Festival, nothing is recorded about it. I thought you would appreciate the attached copies of the poster, with details of the bands on the bill. The bedraggled poster is still on my wall, exactly 39 years on. (My friend Peter Reynolds framed his copy, and I bet he still has it – it will be in much better condition.)
I was 14 then, at school, at the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, and I hated it. It was still very much the school that Roger Waters attended, and wrote about in The Wall. I went to the “Pop Festival” every day, after school and all day on the last day. It was absolutely great – warm sunshine, and a revelation, the music I was avidly absorbing from the John Peel Show being played right in front of me.
I vividly remember Family, who were fantastic, and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, with John Stevens who I saw very often during the 1970’s. I think I remember seeing Terry Reid, and King Crimson, and I know I saw Brian Auger and the Trinity, and the Third Ear Band. And Henry Cow, who played a lot in Cambridge in those days. Mr Lucifer, Mellowing Grey, Committee, and Sir Charles Babbages All Brass Computing Engine were all local bands who also played regularly around the Town, and at University events.
It was a lovely event, and deserves to be remembered. There was an article, and pictures, in the Cambridge Daily News, that you may be able to find from their files.
Regards, Steve McDermott
Cambridge Midsummer Pop Festival
Ian Maun
Ian Maun performed at the festival. He wrote:
Dear festival folk
What a great web-site!
I’ve just finished Rob Young’s Electric Eden which mentions the 1969 Cambridge Midsummer Free festival.
At the time, I was the drummer with Natural Gas,a university band. I remembered playing early one day to about 10 people on Midsummer Common before Mighty Baby came on . I look up your website, and lo! Yes, it was on the Monday at two o’clock in the gap on the bill. I even have a fading colour photo.Later in the festival I stood beside the stage when Family were on, simply gazing in awe at Rob Townsend! Happy memories!
Pete Rickwood (bass) – not in photo;
centre – Ian Maun -drums;
right – Dave Price – lead guitar.
Best
Ian Maun (happily retired and still playing drums!)
Cambridge Midsummer Pop Festival
Hopefully More
This amount of information is more than some of those many other 1969 festivals, but I hope that those who read this and perhaps the site itself will find more. Fingers crossed as they say.
The Who had finished, the misty Sunday sunrise appeared, and the Jefferson Airplane would close Saturday’s 22-hour music marathon.
The sun rose and the Jefferson Airplane started at 8 am; they will play for and hour and 45 minutes, thus bringing their set’s ending to around 10 AM. 10 AM meant that Saturday’s part of the festival lasted nearly 22 hours!
It’s a New Dawn
It would be very understandable if the Airplane had done a lackluster performance. Amusing jokes aside about what kind of party the night had been, et cetera, it was 8 AM! But Grace let everyone know: “All right friends, you have seen the heavy groups, now you will see morning maniac music. Believe me, yea. It’s a new dawn.”
Fred Neil wrote it and the song had been on their then most recent album, Bless Its Pointed Little Head, a live album recorded at both the Fillmore East and West in 1968. This cover is nothing like Neil’s version, but at about 6:18 they call out his name.
Would you like to know a secret just between you and me I don’t know where I’m going next, I don’t know who I’m gonna be But that’s the other side of this life I’ve been leading That’s the other side of this life. Well my whole world’s in an uproar, my whole world’s upside down I don”t know where I’m going next, but I’m always bumming around And that’s another side to this life I’ve been leading And that’s another side to this life Well I don’t know what doing for half the time, I don’t know where I’m going I think I’ll get me a sailing boat and sail the Gulf of Mexico But that’s another side of this life I’ve been leading And that’s another side of this life Well I think I’ll go to Nashville down in Tennessee The ten cent life I’ve been leading here gonna be the death of me But that’s the other side of this life I’ve been leading And that’s another side to this life Would you like to know a secret just between you and me I don’t know where I’m going next, I don’t know who I’m gonna be But that’s the other side of this life I’ve been leading But that’s the other side of this life.
Jefferson Airplane Woodstock
Somebody to Love
Darby Slick, 2011
Darby Slick wrote the song. He was a member of The Great Society, a band that included his brother Jerry and Jerry’s wife, Grace. As a Great Society single, the song didn’t succeed, but when Grace went to the Airplane and the band used Darby’s song, it became one of the biggest hits of the 60s.
Before Grace begins the song, she observes that, “Somehow, this is doing it to me. when I put my hand on it. It’s gonna arc…” likely referring to her mic or mic on the mic stand.
The short delay (“bit of a piano problem”) continues, Grace says that “I’m going sit here and watch the show with you people” but Spencer Dryden’s drums indicate that the show will go on.
When the truth is found to be lies And all the joy within you dies Don’t you want somebody to love, don’t you Need somebody to love, wouldn’t you Love somebody to love, you better Find somebody to love
When the garden flowers baby are dead, yes and Your mind, your mind is so full of red Don’t you want somebody to love, don’t you Need somebody to love, wouldn’t you Love somebody to love, you better Find somebody to love
Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his Yeah, but in your head, baby, I’m afraid you don’t know where it is Don’t you want somebody to love, don’t you Need somebody to love, wouldn’t you Love somebody to love, you better Find somebody to love
Tears are running down and down and down your breast And your friends, baby they treat you like a guest Don’t you want somebody to love, don’t you Need somebody to love, wouldn’t you Love somebody to love, you better Find somebody to love
Jefferson Airplane Woodstock
3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
Marty Balin wrote it and for those of you who are (like me) wondered how fast 3/5 of a mile in 10 seconds is, but are (also like me) too lazy to do the math, it’s 216 mph. The song appeared on the band’s 1967 Surrealistic Pillow.
As tuning continues, Grace suggest that they just play it out of tune. Do it anyway.
Do away with people blowin’ my mind Do away with people wastin’ my precious time Take me to a simple place Where I can easily see my face Maybe baby, I’ll see that you were kind Know I love you baby, yes I do Know I love you baby, yes I do
Do away with people laughin’ at my hair Do away with people frownin’ on my precious cares Take me to a circus tent Where I can easily pay my rent And all the other freaks will share my cares Know I love you baby, yes I do Know I love you baby, yes I do
Do away with things that come on obscene Like hot rods, pre-cleaned real fine nicotine Sometimes the price is sixty-five dollars Prices like that make a grown man holler ‘Specially when it’s sold by a kid who’s only fifteen Know I love you baby, yes I do Know I love you baby, yes I do
Jefferson Airplane Woodstock
Won’t You Try/Saturday Afternoon
Written by Paul Kantner, the song had appeared on the band’s 1967 After Bathing At Baxter’s album. According to Jeff Tamarkin‘s history of the Airplane, “baxter” was the band’s code for LSD and the title as a whole translates to “After Tripping On Acid.” The song itself is fairly obvious in its LSD references.
Won’t you try
Won’t you try
Won’t you try
Find a way to need someone
Find a way to see
Find a way to need someone and the sunshine will set you free
Won’t you try
With love before we’re gone
Won’t you try
Won’t you try
Won’t you try
Saturday afternoon Saturday afternoon When your head is feeling fine You can ride inside our car I will give you caps of blue and silver sunlight for your hair All that soon will be is what you need to see, my love Won’t you try Won’t you try I do care that you do see Is it time to leave, my lady Yes it is I know Round about and everywhere sunshine instead of snow Times can’t change that what I say is true
I’ll come through for you And I’ll come through for you, my love Won’t you try Won’t you try Won’t you try Won’t you try Saturday afternoon Yellow clouds rising in the noon Acid incense and balloons Saturday afternoon People dancing everywhere Loudly shouting I don’t care It’s a time for growing, and a time for knowing Saturday afternoon Saturday afternoon (won’t you try) Saturday afternoon (won’t you try) Saturday afternoon (won’t you try) Won’t you try (Saturday afternoon) Won’t you try (Saturday afternoon) Won’t you try Won’t you try
Jefferson Airplane Woodstock
Eskimo Blue Day
Paul Kantner and Grace Slick wrote the song. The Airplane had already recorded their next album, Volunteers, but it would not be released until November where this song appeared.
Sun cuts loose from the frozen Until it joins with the African sea In moving it changes its cold and its name The reason I come and I go is the same Animal game for me You call it rain But the human name Doesn’t mean shit to a tree
And if you don’t mind heat in your river and Fork tongue talking from me Swim like an eel fantastic snake Take my love when it’s free Electric feel with me You call it loud But the human crowd Doesn’t mean shit to a tree
Change the strings and notes slide Change the bridge and string shift down Shift the notes and bridge sings
Fire eating people Rising toys of the sun Energy dies without body warm Icicles ruin your gun
Water my roots the natural thing Natural spring to the sea Sulfur springs make my body float Like a ship made of logs from a tree Oh, redwoods talk to me Say it plainly The human name Doesn’t mean shit to a tree
Snow called water going violent Damn the end of the stream Too much cold in one place breaks That’s why you might know what I mean Consider how small you are Compared to your scream The human dream Doesn’t mean shit to a tree
Jefferson Airplane Woodstock
Plastic Fantastic Lover
Marty Balin wrote it and the song was the B-side of their Somebody to Love single. While it may seem to refer to something sexual, it apparently refers to a new stereo system Balin purchased.
Before the song, Grace says, “We got a whole lot of orange, and it was fine. Still is fine. Everybody’s vibrating.”
People call out requests.
Her neon mouth with a bleeding talk smile Is nothing but electric sign You could say she has an individual style She’s a part of a colorful time
Super-sealed lady, chrome-color clothes You wear ’cause you have no other But I suppose no one knows You’re my plastic fantastic lover
Your rattlin’ cough never shuts off Is nothing but a used machine Your aluminum finish, slightly diminished Is the best I’ve ever seen
Cosmetic baby, plug into me And never, ever find another And I realize no one’s wise To my plastic fantastic lover
The electrical dust is starting to rust Her trapezoid thermometer taste All the red tape is mechanical rape Of the TV program waste
Data control and I.B.M. Science is mankind’s brother But all I see is draining me On my plastic fantastic lover
Jefferson Airplane Woodstock
Wooden Ships
David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Paul Kantner, so this is the rare song that was twice-played at Woodstock by two different groups. The Airplane stretch out the song for 22 minutes compared to CS & N’s 6:46 version.
At a time when so many young people felt disconnected from society and often rejected its values, the notion of getting away had much appeal.
Perhaps Woodstock was a wooden ship for the weekend?
If you smile at me you know I will understand ‘Cause that is something everybody everywhere does In the same language
I can see by your coat my friend that you’re from the other side There’s just one thing I got to know Can you tell me please who won You must try some of my purple berries I been eating them for six or seven weeks now Haven’t got sick once
Probably keep us both alive, yeah
Wooden ships on the water very free and easy Easy you know the way it’s supposed to be Silver people on the shoreline leave us be Very free and easy
Sail away where the morning sun goes high Sail away where the wind blows sweet and young birds fly Take a sister by her hand Lead her far from this barren land Horror grips us as we watch you die All we can do is echo your anguished cry Stare as all you human feelings die We are leaving You don’t need us
Oh Go and take a sister by her hand Lead her far from this foreign land Somewhere where we might laugh again We are leaving You don’t need us (need us, no) You don’t need us
Sailing ships on the water very free and easy Easy you know the way it’s supposed to be Silver people on the shoreline leave us be Very free And gone No, no, no, no, no, no, no No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no (Oh) no, no, no, no, no, no, no (Oh) Ride the music, ride the music, ride the music Go ride the music (oh ride), oh ride the music (oh ride), oh, ride the music, c’mon
Jefferson Airplane Woodstock
Uncle Sam Blues
Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady were blues lovers and this is a cover of Oran “Hot Lips” Page’s composition. He wrote it in 1944 in reaction to World War II. In 1969, the crowd likely had parents who fought in World War II and just as likely knew someone right then who was in Vietnam.
Got my questionnaire baby You know I’m headed off for war I got my questionnaire baby You know I’m headed off for war Well, now I’m gonna do some fightin’ Well, no one knows what for Well, Uncle Sam ain’t no woman You know he sure can take your man Said Uncle Sam ain’t no woman You know he sure can take your man Well, there’s 40, 000 guys in the service list Doin’ somethin’ somewhere they just don’t Understand Well, I’m gonna do some fightin’ Of that I can be sure Said I’m gonna do some fightin’ Of that I can be sure Well, now I want to kill somebody Won’t have to break no kind of law I got my questionnaire baby You know I’m headed off for war I got my questionnaire baby You know I’m headed off for war Well, I want to kill somebody Won’t have to break no kind of law
Jefferson Airplane Woodstock
Volunteers
Marty Balin and Paul Kantner wrote this song and it would appear on the upcoming Volunteers album. It will be a single off the album as well.
Look what’s happening out in the streets Got a revolution (got to revolution) Hey, I’m dancing down the streets Got a revolution (got to revolution) Oh, ain’t it amazing all the people I meet? Got a revolution (got to revolution) One generation got old One generation got soul This generation got no destination to hold Pick up the cry Hey, now it’s time for you and me Got a revolution (got to revolution) Hey, come on now we’re marching to the sea Got a revolution (got to revolution) Who will take it from you, we will and who are we? Well, we are volunteers of America (volunteers of America) Volunteers of America (volunteers of America) I’ve got a revolution Got a revolution
Look what’s happening out in the streets Got a revolution (got to revolution) Hey, I’m dancing down the streets Got a revolution (got to revolution) Oh, ain’t it amazing all the people I meet? Got a revolution, oh-oh We are volunteers of America Yeah, we are volunteers of America We are volunteers of America (volunteers of America) Volunteers of America (volunteers of America)
Jefferson Airplane Woodstock
The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil
Paul Kantner wrote this song and it had appeared on the Baxter’s album. From Wikipedia: The title of the song refers to Winnie the Pooh as well as the folk singer Fred Neil. Parts of the lyric are taken from A. A. Milne‘s first book of children’s poetry, When We Were Very Young. The first four lines of both the first and last verses are taken almost word-for-word from the poem “Spring Morning” in the book. Another source was the Milne poem “Halfway Down”, the origin of the third verse’s lines “Halfway down the stair / Is a stair where I sit”. Neil was a big influence on Paul Kantner, as were Milne’s books.”
If you were a bird and you lived very high You’d lean on the wind when the breeze came by You’d say to the wind as it took you away That’s where I wanted to go today And I do know that I need to have you around And I do, I do know that I need to have you around Love like a mountain springtime Flashing through the rivers of my mind
It’s what I feel for you
You and me go walking south And we see all the world around us The colors blind my eyes and my mind to all but you And I do know that I need to have you around And I do, I do know that I need to have you around Around
I have a house where I can go When there’s too many people around me I can sit and watch all the people Down below goin’ by me Halfway down the stairs is a stair Where I sit and think about you and me I sit and think about you and me
But I wonder will the sun still see all the people goin’ by Will the moon still hang in the sky when I die When I die, when I’m high, when I die, when I die?
If you were a cloud and you sailed up there You’d sail on water as blue as air You’d see me here in the fields and say Doesn’t the sky look green today?
But I wonder will the sun still see all the people goin’ by Will the moon still hang in the sky when I die When I die, when I die When I’m high, when I die, die, die, die, die?
Jefferson Airplane Woodstock
Come Back Baby
Walter Davis
The crowd calls for more. The band returns with a traditional song written and recorded by Walter Davisin 1940. Jorma Kaukonen arranged this cover and it appeared as a bonus track on the 2003 release of Surrealistic Pillow as well as on Kaukonen’s 2007 album Stars in My Crown.
Come back baby, baby please don’t go Way I love you, I want the world to know Come back baby, let’s talk it over, one more time
Ah, this old world, well will fade one day Said come back, baby, and don’t go away now Ah, come back baby, let’s talk it over, one more time
Ah, come back baby, baby please don’t go The way I love you, I want the world to know Come back baby, let’s talk it over, one more time One more time
Jefferson Airplane Woodstock
White Rabbit
Grace Slick wrote it while still with the Great Society. It appeared on Surrealistic Pillow. The song obviously combines Lewis Carroll’s writings imagery with then contemporary drug imagery.
One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you, don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall Tell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call
He called Alice, when she was just small
When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead And the White Knight is talking backwards And the Red Queen’s off with her head Remember what the Dormouse said Feed your head, feed your head
Jefferson Airplane Woodstock
The House at Pooneil Corner
This song will appear on the Airplane’s Crown of Creation album. Marty Balin mainly wrote it with help from Paul Kantner.
Matthew Greenwald from AllMusic wrote: An epic closer to Crown of Creation, “House at Pooneil Corners” is as ambitious a song as the Airplane had yet to attempt. In this science fiction-inspired song about a nuclear holocaust, the lyrics illustrate a scene so devastating and frightening that it takes the group’s summer of love image and turns it inside out. Around this time, Kantner was collaborating with David Crosby on “Wooden Ships,” which has a very similar subject matter — although that song certainly has a more escapist tone. Musically, “House” is a minor-key psychedelic masterpiece, driven by a powerful, dark melody and some exquisitely strange guitar lines from Jorma Kaukonen.
You and me we keep walkin’ around and we see All the bullshit around us You try and keep your mind on what’s going down Can’t help but see the rhinoceros around us
[Grace Slick has the band return to the top]
And you wonder what you can doAnd you do what you can To get balled and high And you know I’m still gonna need you aroundYou say it’s healing but nobody’s feeling it Somebody’s dealing – somebody’s stealing it You say you don’t see and you don’t You say you won’t know and you won’t let it comeEverything someday will be gone except silence The Earth will be quiet again Seas from clouds will wash off the ashes of violence Left as the memory of men There will be no survivor my friendSuddenly everyone will look surprised Stars spinning wheels in the skies Sun is scrambled in their eyes While the moon circles like a vultureSome people stood at a window and cried one tear I thought that would stop a war But someone is killing meAnd that’s the last hour to think anymore Jelly and juice and bubbles, bubbles on the floorCastles on the cliffs vanish Cliffs like heaps of rubbish Seen from the stars hour by hour As splintered scraps and black powderFrom here to heaven is a scar Dead center, deep as death All the idiots have left The idiots have leftCows are almost cooing
Turtle doves are mooing
Which is why a Pooh is poohing
In the sun Sun
(after the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Marysville, WA cancelled)
1969 festival #10
Duvall is a city in King County, Washington, located on SR 203 halfway between Monroe and Carnation. The population was 8,034 at the 2020 census.
As a myopic Woodstock 1969 alum, I always thought that Woodstock was the only 1969 festival other than in the infamous Altamont at the end of the year.
I’ve learned repeatedly how wrong I was and am continually astounded at how many other 1969 festivals there were: at least 49, most of which were in the United States.
In October 2022, Glen Beebee, a reader posted a comment under my post about those other festivals. He pointed out that I had missed (yet) another one: the Sunrise to Sunset Festival in Duvall, Washington. He provided the jpegs of the concert poster as well as the newspaper article. Thank you Glen.
Otherwise, I find very little about it. I did find a reference to two nearby 1968 events: a piano drop and a festival. Here’s a bit about them.
BTW…Glen also points out that there was also the Spring Flush (Santana, It’s a Beautiful Day, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Spring,Alice Stuart (Thomas), Gazebo, Juggernaut, Retina Circus (light show) at HEC Edmundson Pavilion 5/3/69. Very subjectively, I’ve limited my accounting of 1969 festivals to multi-day events, so will not include the Spring Flush on my list, but it does point out two things: one, there was a lot of outdoor rock music happening by 1969 and two, the Northwest played (literally and figuratively) a big part in that cornucopia.
Sunrise to Sunset Festival
Great Piano Drop, 1968
This photo of Joe McDonald, shot by “Helix” editor Paul Dorpat at Sea-Tac International Airport, was used to advertise a weekend of shows, including the Piano Drop, by Country Joe and the Fish. Above: An ad for two benefit events (including the Piano Drop) for the “Helix” and radio station KRAB.
Duvall had already experienced another counter-cultural event. On April 28, 1968 there was the Great Piano Drop on musician Larry Vanover’s farm in Duvall. A helicopter dropped an upright piano into a field just so everyone could hear what it would sound like. Organizers thought if they could get people out to a rural spot to watch a piano drop, then they’d come out to a festival, too.
If you are a Northern Exposure fan, a piano drop will sound familiar as in the February 3, 1992 episode Burning Down the House, Chris initially decided to fling a cow, but did a piano instead.
And (of course) that plot was likely inspired by Monty Python who occasionally used the idea in episodes. A video game also uses the concept:
Sunrise to Sunset Festival
Sky River Festival, 1968
Over Labor Day weekend that year, the Great Piano Drop yielded its fruit: the Sky River Festival. It was likely America’s first outdoor, multi-day hippie rock festival on an undeveloped site. Think Woodstock, but a year earlier.
…the organizers of Woodstock may well have taken their cue from the Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair, held over Labor Day weekend of 1968,… At Sky (short for Skykomish) River, some 20,000 people descended on Betty Nelson’s organic raspberry farm in Sultan, Washington, to turn on, frolic naked in the mud, and tune into the music of 20 or so bands and performers, playing everything from folk and blues to jazz and rock. A young Richard Pryor was there (his debut comedy album would be released that November), as was the Grateful Dead, whose unscheduled appearance on the last day of the festival was as big a surprise to the concert’s exhausted and bewildered promoters as it was to the appreciative crowd.
But I digress. “What about the Sunrise to Sunset Festival,” you ask. I digress for a good reason: I can find very little about the festival other than it did actually happen. The above referenced AP article is The Daily Chronicle from Monday 2 June 1969. The headline reads: Hippies Take To the Hills.
The articles first sentence reads …hippies and some of the not-so-hip took to the hills during the Memorial Day weekend to follow the Sunrise to Sunset Rock Festival as it moved from Marysville to this tiny King County community, scene of a piano drop last April.
Sunrise to Sunset Festival
30 Bands
Click on picture to see full size…easier to read
The article says that there were 30 bands, but does not mention one of them. Apparently the biggest local issue was a traffic jam when a parking area flooded, The wunderground.com site shows it was somewhat a chilly weekend that had had rain some rain in the days before.
Sunrise to Sunset Festival
Sky River Rock Festival & Lighter Than Air Fair, 1969
Tenino, Washington is nearly 100 miles south of Duvall and on August 30, 31, and September 1, 1969 was the Sky River Rock Festival and Light Than Air Fair. Besides have what is likely the longest name of any fair that year (or ever?).
And a shout out to Glen and his associates for their book: Split Fountain Hieroglyphics: Psychedelic Concert Posters from the Seattle Area, 1966-1969.
From their site: The 60’s Seattle area poster scene has been chronicled in this new, hardcover, 150 page volume titled: Split Fountain Hieroglyphics: Psychedelic Concert Posters from the Seattle Area, 1966-1969. With help from Glen Beebe (design/production), Ben Marks (editor) and a foreword by Art Chantry, I’ve published a limited edition of 500, signed and numbered books. With almost 200, full color illustrations of concert art, artist interviews and essays covering topics such as the Piano Drop and Sky River,
