Atlanta International Pop Festival (1970)
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The second Atlanta International Pop Festival was a music festival held at the Peach County Raceway in Byron, Georgia from July 3 to July 5, 1970. It was the only successor to the first Atlanta International Pop Festival 1969. The event was promoted by Alex Cooley, who had organised the same event the previous year, as well as the Texas International Pop Festival
Like the Woodstock festival the previous summer, the event was promoted as "three days of peace, love and music." Tickets for the festival were priced at $14.
Performers included the Allman Brothers, Jethro Tull, Terry Reid, Spirit, B.B. King, Procol Harum, Jimi Hendrix (just ten weeks before his death), Captain Beefheart, Grand Funk Railroad, Ravi Shankar, 10 Years After, Johnny Winter and John Sebastian.
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