⚠️ This festival is recorded as discontinued.
🗓️ When?
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No date recorded — please check with the organiser.
- Recurrence
- one-off
- Month
- September (derived from the date)
📍 Where?
- Town
- Kinshasa
- How precise?
- coordinate of the venue
This position is the town's, not the festival ground's.
ℹ️ Details
- Visitors
- 80,000
- Status
- discontinued
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
Zaire 74 was a three-day live music festival that took place on 22 to 24 September 1974 at the Stade du 20 Mai in Kinshasa, Zaire. The concert, conceived by South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela and record producer Stewart Levine, was meant to be a major promotional event for The Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing championship match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. When an injury forced Foreman to postpone the fight by six weeks, the music festival's intended audience of international tourists was all but eliminated and Levine had to decide whether or not to cancel the event. The decision was made to move forward, and 80,000 people attended.
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