Vancouver Pop Festival | |
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Genre | Rock, pop, etc. |
Dates | August 22, 23 and 24, 1969 |
Location(s) |
Squamish, British Columbia Canada |
Years active | 1969 |
Founded by | Candi Promotions |
The Vancouver Pop Festival was a Canadian rock festival held at the Paradise Valley Resort in Squamish, British Columbia. The dates of the festival were August 22, 23 and 24, 1969. It was produced by Candi Promotions.
Due to problems with paid attendance, only some of the acts listed below performed. It has been claimed that the Grateful Dead did not perform but Jerry Garcia biographer Blair Jackson disputed this, and speculated the Dead took the gig to move on from their poor performance at the a week earlier. The groups playing at the festival included (in alphabetical order):