Final Auction Price
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$259.00
Starting bid: $1.00
Here we have an opportunity to own a poster that is extremely scarce and virtually unknown by many collectors. This poster was for an obscure and long forgotten 1971 music festival that was named “The Celebration of Life”. It was a poorly organized event in McCrea Louisiana that delivered only a fraction of the bands that were originally billed.
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. We believe that only a handful of these original posters remain in any state today!
Poster - Celebration of Life Cypress Point Plantation 1971
Grade - PAE Excellent 79
Bands/Bill - Cat Stevens Allman Brothers B.B.King Canned Heat (actual performers included: John Sebastian Chuck Berry War Jimmy Witherspoon)
Venue - Cypress Point Plantation
City - McCrea Louisiana
Date - 6/21-28/1971
Dimensions - 23 1/8” x 29”
Printing - OP-1 Original Pre-Concert First Printing
Condition Details - 100% Original with no restoration. Curl from being rolled staple holes each corner 1/4" tear right edge minor paper loss bottom edge handling. View the detailed high res photo of this lot. Click on the thumbnail photo to see an enlarged photo. Click a second time on the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of the enlarged photo. A super high res image with every millimeter will now be clearly displayed. For a personalized eyewitness examination call 410-464-6180 11:00 am to 6:00pm eastern.
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