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Last update November 2012.

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The Second National Jazz and Blues Festival.

Program courtesy Des O'Brien .

       Its interesting to see other large Jazz Festivals advertised in the program ( I worked with a guy who played at the East Coast Festival in 1962 a few years back ) but within a few years these had pretty much faded away and young people had defected to the pop ,rock, folk, blues and pyschedelic music that was featured at the festival until the mid 70s.

The early festivals.

You can find out the complete line ups of the first festivals if you follow the links below.
 

1961

1962

1963

1964

Festivals 65-83

Most of these have fairly complete documentation .

 

Richmond 1965	Windsor 1966	Windsor 1967	Sunbury 1968	Plumpton 1969
Plumpton 1970	Reading 1971	Reading 1972	Reading 1973	Reading 1974
Reading 1975.	Reading 1976	Reading 1977	Reading 1978	Reading 1979
Reading 1980	Reading 1981	Reading 1982	Reading 1983

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