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The Avalon Ballroom was a music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California, at 1244 Sutter Street [1] (or 1268 Sutter, [2] depending on the entrance). The space is known as the location of many concerts of the counterculture movement , from around 1966 to 1969.
Chet's style was "easy-going, mellow, soft-tempered until pushed." Graham's style was more driven. Within a few months Helms secured the permits necessary to host events at the Avalon Ballroom, an old dancehall at 1268 Sutter Street, on the corner of Sutter and Van Ness. Big Brother and the Holding Company debuted there in June 1966.
Avalon Theatre, established as the Sunnyside Theatre in 1912, is the oldest operating movie theater in Portland, Oregon, and is believed to be the state's oldest theater and the first with more than one screen.
Jun. 9—In September 2020, 60 artists set up booths in the parking lot of Avalon Ballroom as part of the Avalon Drive-Thru Art Event, which attracted roughly 900 visitors — within vehicles ...
The Mantra-Rock Dance was a counterculture music event held on January 29, 1967, at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. [1] It was organized by followers of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) as an opportunity for its founder, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, to address a wider public. [2]
At the April 4 and 6 Avalon Ballroom concerts, the Flying Burrito Brothers, along with the band Aum, were the opening acts for the Grateful Dead. [3] Amoeba Records co-founder Dave Prinz found tapes of the two shows among the 16,000 hours of material in the Grateful Dead's vault, and after considerable lobbying, convinced the Dead's sound engineer Owsley "Bear" Stanley, who oversaw the Dead's ...
Avalon Ballroom: 3 August 1968 4 August 1968 9 August 1968: Seattle: Eagles Auditorium: 10 August 1968 11 August 1968 16 August 1968: Sacramento: Sound Factory 17 August 1968 23 August 1968: Torrance: The Bank 24 August 1968 Europe 24 August 1968: Prestatyn: Wales: The Royal Lido, Central Beach 31 August 1968: Kasterlee: Belgium: Kastival 68 ...
Moby Grape is an American rock band founded in 1966. Part of San Francisco's psychedelic music scene, the band merged elements of rock and roll, folk music, pop, blues, and country.