Miami Pop Festival 1968 T-Shirt

The Miami Pop Festival was the first major rock festival on America's east coast that took place December 28-30, 1968, at Gulfstream Park, a horse racing track in Hallandale, Florida, just north of Miami. It is sometimes confused with a separate event that took place seven months earlier, at the same venue, though the two events were unrelated. The earlier event was officially publicized on promotional materials and in radio ads as the "1968 Pop and Underground Festival," and "The 1968 Pop Festival," but later came to be referred to colloquially as the "Miami" Pop Festival, a practice which has led to confusion between the two events. The festival had a considerable line up of around 36 bands, with daily crowds estimated to at 100k.