1971 Allman Brothers Band Celebration of Life Festival Cypress Point Plantation Poster Fine 50

closed on Thursday, July 18, 2024

Final Auction Price
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$73.20
Starting bid: $1.00

This poster was for the obscure and long-forgotten 1971 music festival, The Celebration of Life. It was a poorly organized event in McCrea Louisiana that delivered only a fraction of the originally billed bands.



The festival was planned to be an eight-day event in the rural Cypress Point Plantation but the promoters fell short on talent money and organizational skills. The result was a fiasco that was delayed for three days and was significantly lacking in basic amenities for the approximately 50,000 that did attend.



Many bands listed on the promotional material did not perform. It has been recorded that Pink Floyd (not listed on the poster) traveled to the event to perform but also did not make it to the stage.

 

Condition Details: rolled



--CRITICAL DETAILS--
--TITLE: Allman Brothers Celebration Of Life Fest
--GRADE: FINE 50
--PERFORMERS: Allman Brothers, Cat Stevens, B.B.King, Canned Heat (Actual Performers Included: John Sebastian Chuck Berry War Jimmy Witherspoon)
--VENUE: Cypress Point Plantation
--CITY: McCrea Louisiana
--DATE: 06/21/71
--SIZE: 29 in. x 23 in.
--PRINTING: OP-1; Original Pre-Concert First Printing Poster


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