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What 1969 music festival featured Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin?

• Live Aid
• Isle of Wight
• Woodstock
• Newport

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who’s who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish. The festival began to go wrong almost immediately, when the towns of both Woodstock and Wallkill, New York, denied permission to stage it. (Nevertheless, the name Woodstock was retained because of the cachet of hipness associated with the town, where Bob Dylan and several other musicians were known to live and which had been an artists’ retreat since the turn of the century.) Ultimately, farmer Max Yasgur made his land available for the festival.

Source: Britannica.com

Which band made history by performing at Shea Stadium in 1965?

• The Monkees
• The Beach Boys
• The Beatles
• Queen

Although the Beatles had played stadium concerts previously, the Shea concert was a milestone in popular musical history as the first major stadium concert. In 1970, John Lennon recalled the show as a career highlight: "At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain." In 2008, Paul McCartney played the last concert at Shea Stadium with Billy Joel before the stadium was closed and demolished. The Beatles' concert at Shea Stadium was in New York City on 15 August 1965, and the highlight of the group's 1965 tour.

Source: Wikipedia

Which of these festivals is held in New Orleans every year?

• Timkat
• Hanami
• Diwali
• Mardi Gras

The largest and most famous Mardi Gras celebration in the U.S. is in New Orleans, where Fat Tuesday is a legal holiday. NOLA has been celebrating Mardi Gras since the early 18th century and the krewe Twelfth Night Revelers were the first to toss "throws'' in 1870. Beginning on Twelfth Night and ending on Fat Tuesday, dozens of parades are held, including the Chewbacchus sci-fi foot parade in the historic Marigny neighborhood, the Legion of Mars, a salute to military, police, and first responders along St. Charles Avenue, Barkus, a costumed canine parade in the French Quarter, Babylon with classic flambeaux lighting (gaslight torches) and antique float designs, and Hermes, the oldest nighttime parade.

Source: Time Out

Which country artist recorded several albums in different prisons?

• Willie Nelson
• Johnny Cash
• Carrie Underwood
• Garth Brooks

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison is the first live album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records on May 6, 1968. After his 1955 song "Folsom Prison Blues", Cash had been interested in recording a performance at a prison. His idea was put on hold until 1967 when personnel changes at Columbia Records put Bob Johnston in charge of producing Cash's material. At Folsom Prison received positive reviews and revitalized Cash's career, becoming the first in a series of live albums recorded at prisons that includes At San Quentin (1969), På Österåker (1973), and A Concert Behind Prison Walls (1976).

Source: Wikipedia

Which of these was a benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985?

• Concert for George
• Live in Rio
• Live Aid
• Woodstock

Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, as well as a music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. Billed as the "global jukebox", Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, attended by about 72,000 people, and at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, attended by 89,484 people. It was one of the largest satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time; an estimated audience of 1.9 billion, in 150 nations, watched the live broadcast, nearly 40 percent of the world population.

Source: Wikipedia

Which is the largest summer music festival in the United States?

• Firefly Festival
• Lollapalooza
• Coachella
• Summerfest

Summerfest is an annual music festival held in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. First held in 1968, Summerfest is located at Henry Maier Festival Park, adjacent to Lake Michigan and Milwaukee's central business district. Summerfest attracts approximately 800,000 people each year, promoting itself as "The World's Largest Music Festival", a title certified by Guinness World Records in 1999, but has been surpassed in attendance by Donauinselfest with over 3 million in 2015. While Summerfest has one of the highest aggregate attendances in the world, the daily attendance of Summerfest is lower than other major American music festivals. In 2022, the daily attendance of Summerfest was 49,500.

Source: Wikipedia

Who set the record for the longest rock concert in the United States?

• Bob Dylan
• Johnny Cash
• Elvis Presley
• Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band treated their fans in Philadelphia to their longest U.S. show in history. Clocking in at 4 hours and 4 minutes, with 34 songs played, the concert at Citizens Bank Park surpassed the previous record of 4 hours, set at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Aug. 30. Several Springsteen bloggers and fan sites confirmed the record. Wednesday’s concert was the second-longest of the band’s career, with a 2012 set in Helsinki, Finland, still holding the record at 4:06.

Source: Billboard

Which of these music festivals is held in California?

• Balaton Sound
• Exit
• Soundwave
• Coachella

For over 20 straight years, the Southern California desert has been the site of the epic Coachella Music Festival. It all began in 1999 and has consistently grown ever since. Some of the biggest names in the music industry - from rock and indie bands to singer-songwriters to techno - have headlined and performed for massive crowds at Coachella. Some return year after year, as do loyal attendees.

Source: Only in Your State

Which American duo recorded an iconic concert in Central Park in 1981?

• Sonny & Cher
• Steely Dan
• Simon & Garfunkel
• Hall & Oates

The Concert in Central Park is the first live album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released on February 16, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records. It was recorded on September 19, 1981, at a free benefit concert on the Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City, where the pair performed in front of 500,000 people.

Source: Wikipedia

Which music festival's name means "best on the streets"?

• Coachella
• Bonnaroo
• Bamboozle
• Okeechobee

Bonnaroo is the popular short name for the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, an annual event held in Manchester, Tennessee, that features dozens of concerts across multiple stages by popular artists from a variety of genres, including hip-hop, rock, and pop. The event is held on farmland that has been converted into festival grounds. The word bonnaroo is a New Orleans slang term referring to a good time (perhaps literally meaning “the best on the streets”—a combination of the French terms bonne, meaning “good,” and rue, meaning “street”).

Source: Dictonary

Which classic rock band claimed the record for "loudest concert" in 1976?

• The Who
• Pink Floyd
• The Rolling Stones
• Led Zeppelin

The Who are a band that have always liked to crank it up past the Spinal Tap recommended level of 11, that much was clear on their astounding 1970 Live At Leeds record and it has remained true ever since. Their raucous sonic frisson is one that simply seems very befitting of the upper decibels. Unsurprisingly, therefore, in 1976 their concert at The Valley, home of Charlton Athletic FC, entered the record books as the loudest concert of all time. The standing record was held by Deep Purple at a lug-shaking 117dB, but The Who thumped a hell of a lot louder at 126dB, helped by the acoustics of the cavernous old football stadium.

Source: Far Out Magazine

What musical act performed during the first Super Bowl halftime show?

• College marching band
• A show from the army aviators
• The NYC ballet
• Disney on Ice

During most of the Super Bowl's first decade (starting on January 15, 1967), the halftime show featured a college marching band. The show's second decade featured a more varied show, often featuring drill teams and other performance ensembles; the group Up with People produced and starred in four of the performances. The middle of the third decade, in an effort to counter other networks' efforts to counterprogram the game, saw the introduction of popular music acts, starting with Michael Jackson in 1993, including New Kids on the Block, Gloria Estefan, Clint Black, Patti LaBelle, and Tony Bennett.

Source: Wikipedia