Simon Garfunkel Homeward Bound ( Monterey International Pop Music Festival 1967)

Simon Garfunkel Homeward Bound (Monterey International Pop Music Festival 1967) Artist : Simon Garfunkel Song : Homeward Bound Cuncert : Monterey International Pop Music Festival 1967 Friday, June 16 (Evening) The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a threeday concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who and Ravi Shankar, the first largescale public performance of Janis Joplin and the introduction of Otis Redding to a mass American audience. The Monterey Pop Festival embodied the theme of California as a focal point for the counterculture and generally is regarded as one of the beginnings of the Summer of Love in 1967;