Aldergrove Beach Rock Festival
The Aldergrove Beach Rock Festival took place from Saturday 17th to Monday 19th May 1969 in Aldergrove, British Columbia , Canada . The three-day rock festival had 25,000 to 30,000 visitors. Musicians and bands who performed included The New Vaudeville Band , Guitar Shorty , Black Snake and Trooper. The festival poster advertised “3 days + 2 nights of fun” with “25 top rock acts from the Pacific Nor'West”. Admission cost 2 $ per day and $ 5 for the entire festival.
Aldergrove is located in Langley District , approximately 59 km east of Vancouver , near the border with the United States . Aldergrove Beach was a local recreation area with a reservoir and a beach.
The Aldergrove Beach Rock Festival was one of the first major open-air rock festivals in 1969. According to music economics researcher Peter Tschmuck, on May 17th, festival visitors were harassed by a biker gang, so that mounted police had to intervene.
Web links
- Mike Beddoes Blues Band at the Aldergrove Beach Rock Festival 1969 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Festival poster on flickr
- ↑ a b Jim McGregor: McGregor Says: Spending the day at Aldergrove Beach . Langley Times, July 7, 2016 (English)
- ↑ By the Time we Didn't Get to Woodstock ... on "uDiscoverMusic", March 8, 2013 (English)
- ↑ Peter Tschmuck: 40 years of Woodstock - economic debacle and myth . Music Industry Research, August 14, 2009