Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival
1972 music festival noted for massive turnout and unorganised crowds
Grayville · White · United States of America
⚠️ This festival is recorded as discontinued.
🗓️ When?
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No date recorded — please check with the organiser.
- Month
- September (derived from the date)
- Founded
- 1972
📍 Where?
- Town
- Grayville
- Region
- White
- Country
- United States of America
- How precise?
- the festival's own coordinate
ℹ️ Details
- Genre
- rock music
- Visitors
- 250,000
- Status
- discontinued
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
The Erie Canal "Soda" Pop Festival, also known colloquially as the Bull Island Rock Festival, was a rock festival held on September 2–4, 1972, on Bull Island, a strip of land in Illinois but on the Indiana side of the Wabash River near Griffin. A crowd of an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people attended the concert, four times what the promoters had estimated. Food and water were in short supply, and the gathering descended into relative chaos amidst heavy rains and a lack of security. Many of the scheduled acts canceled their performances due to safety concerns. After the festival concluded, the remnants of the crowd rioted and burned the main stage.
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