The Holland Pop Festival, also known as the Kralingen Music Festival, was a pop and rock music festival held in the '' Kralingse Bos'', in the

Kralingen Kralingen is a former village in the Dutch province of South Holland, now a neighbourhood of Rotterdam. It is located about 3 kilometres east of the city centre, in the borough Kralingen-Crooswijk. Kralingen was a separate municipality until 1895 ...

neighbourhood of

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

in the

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, on 26–28 June 1970.

History

Performing bands included

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, and the headlining

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. Approximately 100,000 attended. Festival posters show that the festival was billed in Dutch as 'Pop Paradijs' and 'Holland Pop Festival 70', and that the main investor was

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. In both English and Dutch, the festival is also known by the English name ''Stamping Ground'', and is often billed as the European answer to

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. It took place approximately one year after Woodstock, and two months before the third 1970

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. The many present undercover cops did not arrest any of the users or small traders: it became clear that there were just too many, and all of them peaceful. In 1971, a documentary about the festival appeared, titled ''Stamping Ground'', created by Hansjürgen Pohland aka Jason Pohland and

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. The film was made for an international audience and is also known under the titles ''Love and Music'', and in Germany ''Rock Fieber''. Also, several books and exhibitions have been dedicated to the event. A triple lp-boxset was released in 2010. The Dutch Festival 1970 (Kralingen) was organized by Foundation "Holland Pop Festival" (Piet van Daal, Georges Knap, Toos v.d.Sterre, Berry Visser) On 21 September 2013, a memorial has been unveiled in the ''Kralingse Bos'' area, to commemorate the first multi-day open air popfestival on the European continent. Kralingen1970tickets.jpg, Ticket sales Kralingen1970crowd3.jpg, Audience Kralingen1970crowd.jpg, Selling "trips" Kralingen1970crowd4.jpg, Audience Kralingen1970camp.jpg, Campsite

Acts on the main stage

Other performances

Several Dutch bands (including

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and the

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Blues Band) also performed, on a smaller stage in the vicinity.

Audio, video and publications

* -DVD + 2-CD''The Dutch Woodstock''. Gonzo, 2013.Erwin Wendt, Written in Music, juli 2013 -incl. setlist
/ref> * LP records (bootleg)''Kralingen'' (NL, 1971) * LP records (bootleg)''Stamping Ground. Kralinger'' (sic) ''Music Festival (26-27-28 June 1970, Rotterdam, Holland)''. Akarma Deluxe AD 535 (different setlist). *

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''Stamping ground. Holland festival of music'', prod. by Wolf Schmidt, Sam Waynberg; dir. by Jason Pohland. Den Haag, Concorde Video, 1986. Original ed.: Cine 3-planet Film, 1970 (ca. 100 min.) * Peter Sijnke & Marcel Koopman: ''Kralingen. Holland Pop Festival 1970''. Haarlem, Uitgeverij In de Knipscheer, 2013. With audio-CD * Peter Sijnke, Marcel Koopman & John Blaak: ''Holland Pop Festival 1970. Drie legendarische dagen in Kralingen''. Rotterdam, Donker, 2010. * Theo Knippenberg & Patty Knippenberg: ''Kralingen '70, 'n grote blijde bende''. Utrecht, Knippenberg, 1971. No ISBN

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