On This Day in Monterey, Love, peace, and happiness were on the way. It was the Summer of Love, and it all started with the Star-Studded Monterey Pop Festival. Before Woodstock, Lollapalooza, or Coachella, there was the Monterey Pop Festival, which kicked off the Summer of Love movement on June 16, 1967.
The event’s cultural significance is almost impossible to encapsulate. From the logistics of the event itself to the performers who appeared on the three-day lineup, countless musicians, artists, cultural movements, and events stemmed from that fateful weekend.
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The Monterey International Pop Festival opened at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. Los Angeles band, the Association, kicked off the three-day festival, followed by the Paupers, Lou Rawls, Beverley Martyn, Johnny Rivers, the New Animals, and the headlining act, Simon & Garfunkel. The opening night of the festival was almost like a sonic bridge between the first and second halves of the 1960s. Folk music was around, of course. But rock music was slowly edging out the acoustic genre’s dominating influence.