The Aquarian Family Festival was a free three-day music festival held in San Jose, California on May 23rd, 24th, and 25th, 1969. Some of the performers included Big Brother and the Holding Company; Jefferson Airplane; Quicksilver Messenger Service; Strawberry Alarm Clock; Moby Grape; Joy of Cooking; Chocolate Watchband; Throckmorton; and Boz Scaggs among others; However, many of the "big" names who promised to play never showed up.

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  • The Aquarian Family Festival was a free three-day music festival held in San Jose, California on May 23rd, 24th, and 25th, 1969. Some of the performers included Big Brother and the Holding Company; Jefferson Airplane; Quicksilver Messenger Service; Strawberry Alarm Clock; Moby Grape; Joy of Cooking; Chocolate Watchband; Throckmorton; and Boz Scaggs among others; However, many of the "big" names who promised to play never showed up. The list below is believed to be accurate (note that Quicksilver for example was slated to play but probably did not). The concert was held on the San Jose State University football practice field with the cooperation of the University's School Community Involvement Program (SCIP - pronounced 'skip'). Terms of the agreement with the University required that people could be present only during the performance of music. Because part of the purpose of the concert was to provide a safe place to stay for tens of thousands of people traveling to town to attend another concert being held in town about a mile away at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds, music had to be performed continuously from the start at 12:00pm Friday until the close of the festival at 4:00pm Sunday afternoon. Thus the festival featured 52 hours of continuous music. The festival was produced in 10 days at a total cost of $968.00 by approximately 30 people who were volunteers with the Institute for Research and Understanding whose Dirt Cheap Productions unit produced the concert. Assistance was also given by the musicians' cooperative Druid Corporation House and the San Jose Free University. Legal services were paid for by the band Led Zeppelin which did not perform at the festival. Independent sources estimated attendance at 200,000 people, with 80,000 spending the night on Saturday. When Jefferson Airplane, appeared on Dick Cavett the Friday night of the Woodstock Music and Art Festival, Cavett asked them if anything like this had ever happened before. Grace Slick replied "San Jose".
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  • The Aquarian Family Festival was a free three-day music festival held in San Jose, California on May 23rd, 24th, and 25th, 1969. Some of the performers included Big Brother and the Holding Company; Jefferson Airplane; Quicksilver Messenger Service; Strawberry Alarm Clock; Moby Grape; Joy of Cooking; Chocolate Watchband; Throckmorton; and Boz Scaggs among others; However, many of the "big" names who promised to play never showed up.
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  • Aquarian Family Festival
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