[Dixielandjazz] What A Wonderful World

[Art Ibach]

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:39:14 EDT
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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] What A Wonderful World
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Well, I don't know about the first Monterey Dixieland Festival, but I do 
recall the First and only Monterey Pop-Folk Festival which I produced in 1968 
however it was not even in Monterey, it was in the Alameda Country Fairgrounds in 
Livermore, Ca.   I have no idea why we called it the Monterey Pop-Folk 
Festival, just sounded like a cool name at the time.

That was the beginning of the Really Big Outdoor Festivals which led to 
Woodstock, which I am happy to say I had nothing to do with, Monterey was enough of 
that kind of event for me to handle even in those younger days and cheaper 
prices.

I was all of 24 years of infinite wisdom about show business in those 
embryonic days of Rock and Roll productions.  We knew it ALL, we had to, since nobody 
else had ever done it before.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins
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Tom,
Minor point, but worth mentioning...the Alameda County Fairgrounds are 
located in Pleasanton, CA not Livermore, CA. I know, because I lived within a
half-mile of there in 1968.
Regards,
Art