Festivals · First held 1970

Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music

Shepton Mallet, United Kingdom

Location: Shepton Mallet
First held: 1970

Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music is a jazz festival in Shepton Mallet, United Kingdom, first held in 1970.

The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a counterculture era music festival held at the Royal Bath and West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England on 27–29 June 1970. Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed lorry.

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