Simon and Garfunkel helped launch the SUMMER OF LOVE at the Monterey International Pop Festival back in 1967. Its vibe is still being felt half a century later. Anthony Mason takes us to Monterey, ...

Fifty years after the legendary Monterey International Pop Festival laid the groundwork for music festivals, the fest returned to California’s Monterey County Fairgrounds this past weekend. The ...

Five decades after the event itself, Jimi Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire was still the talk of the Monterey International Pop Festival, which marked its 50th anniversary this weekend in Monterey.

In April 1968, a young writer named Jann Wenner published a blistering indictment of city officials of Monterey in Rolling Stone, the new rock-music newspaper he had founded only a few months before.

Other than a particularly memorable weekend concert back in the LBJ days, the seven professional photographers who will be at the Monterey Museum of Art on Thursday have never before been in the same ...

The Monterey International Pop Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary over the weekend — the same days 50 years to the date — and while it couldn’t replicate the musical magic of 1967, the artists ...

Late last week, it was revealed that the legendary Monterey Pop Festival would be making a comeback for its 50th anniversary, and that the full lineup would be announced today (4/17). The lineup is ...

Monterey >> Sunny skies shined upon the first day of the Monterey International Pop Festival’s 50th anniversary party Friday. The Monterey County Fair and Event Center was groomed, decorated and made ...

Monterey – Over three days at the Monterey County Fair & Event Center, another chapter in the history of the Monterey International Pop Festival was written. “It Happened in Monterey” has a deeper ...

LOS ANGELES – Before Burning Man and Bonnaroo, Coachella and Lollapalooza, Glastonbury and Governors Island, there was Monterey Pop. Fifty years ago this month, the three-day concert south of San ...

Some bands that played Monterey Pop 40 years ago will return in July to the site of the first great rock festival, but the original promoter and others say the spirit of the Summer of Love is a long ...