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Dave Matthews Band Caravan Debuts in AC June 24-26

ATLANTIC CITY — Back in 1969, a decade after the launch of the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island (and nearly 15 years after the Newport Jazz Festival was established in 1964) and just a couple weeks before Woodstock took place in upstate New York (Aug. 15-18), Atlantic City had its own big rock and pop festival. Held Aug. 1-3, 1969, at the Atlantic City Race Course, the Atlantic City Pop Festival featured several of the top-name rock and folk-rock acts of the day , many of which would also play Woodstock. More than 100,000 people came from all over the country to see dozens of artists, including the Byrds; Crosby, Stills & Nash; Chicago, Joe Cocker; Dr. John; Jefferson Airplane; Creedence Clearwater Revival; Captain Beefheart; Janis Joplin; Joni Mitchell; Hugh Masekela; B.B. King; Little Richard; Frank Zappa; Santana; the Sir Douglas Quintet — and the list goes on and on.

The extraordinary line-up that it featured aside, the Atlantic City festival has been nearly erased by history, overshadowed by the cultural mile marker that Woodstock would become. (Another interesting similarlity between the two August 1969 festivals: neither took place in the festival’s namesake town. Woodstock was moved from that New York town to Max Yasgur’s 600-acre farm in Bethel, N.Y., and the A.C. Pop Festival was held in Mays Landing, where the A.C. Race Course still stands.  Fast forward to 2011 and Atlantic City is about to take back some of the thunder stolen away by that little festival in Bethel, N.Y.

With many state and city officials seeking to enhance the entertainment offerings in Atlantic City, as gaming competition in nearby states has eaten away at the resort’s casino revenues in recent years, and reclaim Atlantic City as the World’s Playground that is was for about a century, up until decline set in during the late 1960s and 1970s, this weekend’s three-day Dave Matthews Band Caravan festival (DMBC) is a welcome breath of fresh air. For area restaurants, hotels and other lodging facilities, shops, campgrounds, and, of course, the casinos (which came to town in 1978 to help save the city from its then state of decline), the DMBC could be a much-needed shot in the arm for the local economy as a whole. It will also surely serve as a cultural boost to the city, one in which there is current plans for an arts district and a state-operated tourism zone.    When the festival was officially announced in February, organziers and city officials predicted that about 70,000 people would attend each day of the three-day event, which is being held at Atlantic City’s old airfield Bader Field, the nation’s first “airport.” The hope was that a combined 210,000 visitors in town (less than half of what the annual Atlantic City Air Show draws each August) would bring in an estimated $70 million in revenue.

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