Monterey Pop Festival Part Two? Not officially, but when you look
closely, it's not hard to connect the dots. Tom Wilks, Monterey Pop's
original poster artist is creating a new poster for this event. Five
of the original acts from the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 will be
performing. The festival is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the
Summer of Love, The Monterey Pop Festival, the release of the Beatles'
Sgt. Peppers album and the Peace, Love and Flower Power generation.
San Francisco-based I.E. Artists Group is presenting the "Monterey
Summer of Love Festival" this July 28th & 29th on the exact same stage
as the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, and has secured five of the
original acts who performed in '67: The Jefferson Starship,
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother and the Holding Company
featuring Cathy Richardson of "Love, Janis" fame, the long-awaited
reunion of Moby Grape, the Grateful Dead's Tom Constanten and It's a
Big, Bad, Beautiful Day with David LaFlamme have all been confirmed.
Others who performed in '67 are being pursued.
Festival director Andrew Hernandez is also booking contemporary
artists to attract Generations X and Y, hoping the kids of the '60s
and younger generations will connect to discuss today's world issues
and help inspire the surging young activist groups across the nation.
"The parallels of 1967 and 2007 are surreal," says Hernandez. "We have
to get today's youth out from behind their text messaging and Play
Stations long enough to create something meaningful and beautiful--we
need to get them involved in the struggles of humanity." Hernandez
said the festival will focus mainly on the great music that brought
all those groovy kids together and united them in the fight for Peace,
Love and Freedom.
The Monterey festival is planning to feature exhibits of '60s
memorabilia, including arts & crafts, poster art, Ken Kesey's late
'60s psychedelic "Furthur" bus, and The Moving Wall Vietnam Memorial.
Also confirmed to perform on either the main or tribute stages are
world class tribute bands.
For more information on this event please see Summer67.com or
contact the Festival Director - director@summer67.com. For media
interviews, please contact publicist Denise Dorman at (630) 845-4694
or Denise@writebrainmedia.com.
