The Monterey International Pop Festival was a three-day music festival held June 16–18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The festival is remembered for the first major
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Advertisement in June 3, 1967 issue of KRLA Beat
Cashbox advertisement for "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)", May 13, 1967
Janis Joplin (photo 1968)
Otis Redding
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Otis Ray Redding Jr. was an American singer and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blu
Monterey International Pop Festival
…appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who, and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin, and the introduction of Otis Redding to a mass American audience. The festival embodied the theme of California as a focal point for the counterculture and generally is regarded as one of…
Redding in 1967
"Otis Redding Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay", statue in Gateway Park by Bradley Cooley and Bradley Cooley, Jr of Bronze By Cooley, 2003
Otis Redding Center for the Arts (opened 2025)