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Meadows Technicolour Fair
Meadows Technicolour Fair was an Australian rock music festival with fairground attractions, films and dramatic performances. It was held on a private farm near Meadows township, from Adelaide, over the Australia Day long weekend from 29 to 31 January 1972. International artists appearing were Mary Hopkin, Tom Paxton, and Edison Lighthouse; Australian artists included Blackfeather, Spectrum, Fraternity, Carson and Tamam Shud. The MCs were Jim Keays, Vince Lovegrove and Gerry Humphrys (ex- the Loved Ones). Background As well as pop and rock music artists, Meadows Technicolour Fair, also featured fairground attractions, underground movies shown by the Adelaide film co-op, a performance of ''Freak Circus'' by the Street Theatre Group and talks on the environment. A rock church service was held on Sunday with music provided by Adelaide bands Buffalo Drive and Earth. Held over the same long weekend as the 1972 Sunbury Pop Festival, the event attracted almost 30,000 people and fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fair
A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities. Fairs are typically temporary with scheduled times lasting from an afternoon to several weeks. Types Variations of fairs include: * Art fairs, including art exhibitions and arts festivals * County fair (USA) or county show (UK), a public agricultural show exhibiting the equipment, animals, sports and recreation associated with agriculture and animal husbandry. * Festival, an event ordinarily coordinated with a theme e.g. music, art, season, tradition, history, ethnicity, religion, or a national holiday. * Health fair, an event designed for outreach to provide basic preventive medicine and medical screening * Historical reenactments, including Renaissance fairs and Dickens fairs * Horse fair, an event where people buy and sell horses. * Job fair, event in which employers, recruiters, and schools give information to potential employees. * Regional or state fair, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunbury Pop Festival
Sunbury Pop Festival or Sunbury Rock Festival was an annual Australian rock music festival held on a private farm between Sunbury and Diggers Rest, Victoria, which was staged on the Australia Day (26 January) long weekend from 1972 to 1975. It attracted up to 45,000 patrons and was promoted by Odessa Promotions, which was formed by a group of television professionals, including John Fowler, from GTV 9 Melbourne. Although conceived and promoted as Australia's Woodstock, the Sunbury Pop Festivals signalled the end of the hippie peace movement of the late 1960s and the beginning of the reign of pub rock. The early festivals were financially successful and featured performances by Australian and New Zealand bands including, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Max Merritt and the Meteors, Chain and Wild Cherries. Various live albums were recorded at the festivals including '' Aztecs Live! At Sunbury'' issued in September 1972, which peaked at No. 3 on the ''Go-Set'' Top 20 Albums; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1972. __TOC__ Specific locations * 1972 in British music * 1972 in Norwegian music Specific genres *1972 in country music *1972 in heavy metal music *1972 in jazz Events *January 17 – 12 miles of U.S. Highway 51 in Memphis, Tennessee from South Parkway East to the Tennessee/Mississippi state line is renamed "Elvis Presley Boulevard." *January 20 – The debut of Pink Floyd's ''Dark Side of the Moon'' at The Dome, Brighton, is halted by technical difficulties. ''Dark Side of the Moon'' would be played in its entirety the following night, but it would be a full year before the album was released. *January 21 – Keith Richards jumps on stage to jam with Chuck Berry at the Hollywood Palladium, but is ordered off for playing too loud. Berry later claims that he did not recognize Keith and would not have booted him if he did. *January 29–31 – The first Sunbury Music Festival is held in Sunbury, Victoria. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 1972 Events In Australia
January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendar The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It was introduced in October 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar. The principal change was to space leap years dif ...s and is also the first of seven months to have a length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer). In the Southern hemisphere, January is the seasonal equivalent of July in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa. Ancient Roman observances during this month include Cervula and Juvenalia, celebrated January 1, as well as one of three Agonalia, celebrated January 9, and Carmentalia, celebrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
