Book documenting 1968 Miami Pop Festival to launch at KU
Photographer Ken Davidoff and musician-filmmaker Jack Connell, the authors behind the upcoming “The 1968 Miami Pop Festival,” will celebrate their book’s launch at 7 p.m. March 24 in the Kansas Union’s Alderson Auditorium.
The book, to be released this month by the Lawrence-based Global Green Publications, is a collection of Davidoff’s photographs from the 1968 festival along with interviews conducted by Connell. The May 1968 Miami Pop Festival was the first of its kind on the East Coast, and featured artists such as Jimi Hendrix and the Experience, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and Chuck Berry.
Tuesday’s program will include a slideshow, book-signing and a screening of a short documentary by Davidoff and Connell that chronicles another music watershed of the era: the 1969 Palm Beach Pop Festival.
The book and copies of the May 1968 Miami Pop Festival poster (original artist, second printing) will be available for purchase on site.
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