Atlantic City Pop Festival

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The Atlantic City Pop Festival took place in 1969 on August 1, 2 and 3rd at the Atlantic City race track, two weeks before the better known Woodstock Festival. The festival is often confused with the Atlanta International Pop Festival (1969), which took place over the 1969 Fourth of July weekend.

Attended by some 100,000+ people the festival featured the following performers (partial list):

• • The Byrds
  • Janis Joplin
  • Joni Mitchell
  • Procol Harum
  • Jefferson Airplane
  • Canned Heat
  • Buddy Miles
  • Little Richard
  • Credence Clearwater Revival
  • Dr. John
  • Frank Zappa
  • Santana
  • Lighthouse
  • Joe Cocker
  • Paul Butterfield Blues Band
  • Sir Douglas Quintet
  • Three Dog Night
  • Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth
  • Arthur Brown
  • Buddy Rich
  • Hugh Masekela
  • Chicago
  • Booker T. & The MGs
  • Moody Blues Moodies were scheduled but weren't there
  • Tim Buckley
  • Iron Butterfly
  • Aum
  • American Dream
  • Lothar and the Hand People

Crosby, Stills and Nash were originally on the lineup but ended up as a no-show. Nash supposedly had polyps on tonsils (but sang at Woodstock 2 wks later)

v • d • e Notable rock concerts
Woodstock	Woodstock Festival (1969) • Woodstock '79 • Woodstock '89 • Woodstock '94 • Woodstock 1999
Other early festivals	Monterey Pop Festival (1967) • Schaefer Music Festival (1967-1976) • Atlanta International Pop Festival (1969) • Atlantic City Pop Festival (1969) • Isle of Wight Festival 1969 • Altamont Free Concert (1969) • Festival Express (1970) • Bath Festival (1970) • Atlanta International Pop Festival (1970) • Isle of Wight Festival 1970 • Wattstax (1972) • Summer Jam at Watkins Glen (1973) • California Jam (1974) • World Series of Rock (1974-1979) Rock Concert at Poconos raceway, July 8, 1972 (1972) •
Benefit concerts	The Concert for Bangladesh (1971) • Concerts for the People of Kampuchea (1979) • Party in the Park (annual from 1982) • Live Aid (1985) • Farm Aid (1985) • Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute (1988) • The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (1992) • NetAid (1999) • The Concert for New York City/America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001) • Party at the Palace (2002) • Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto (2003) • Tsunami Aid/WaveAid (2005) • Live 8 (2005) • A Concert for Hurricane Relief / Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast / From the Big Apple to the Big Easy (2005) • Concert for Diana (2007) • Live Earth (2007) • World Peace One (2007)
Benefit/political tours	No Nukes (1979) • A Conspiracy of Hope (1986) • Human Rights Now! (1988) • Vote for Change (2004)
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