{"id":180,"date":"2008-07-30T00:33:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T04:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2008-07-30T00:33:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T04:33:34","slug":"festival-express-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/30\/festival-express-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Express Poster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rgdaniel\/2715291521\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2292\/2715291521_c569748e30_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rgdaniel\/2715291521\/\">Festival Express Poster<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/rgdaniel\/\">rgdaniel<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s 1970, the year after<b> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodstock_Festival\">Woodstock<\/a><\/b>. And now, right here in Canada, another sure-to-be-epic rock festival is selling tickets via this very poster.  The <b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Festival_express\">Trans Continental Pop Festival<\/a><\/b> was a 1970 tour across Canada by some of the world&#8217;s biggest rock bands, including The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and The Band. <\/p>\n<p>It later became known as <b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Festival_express\">Festival Express<\/a><\/b>, which is also the name of the documentary film that would eventually emerge.<\/p>\n<p>The bands travelled across Canada on a private train between the gigs, which became a party \/ jam session  of epic proportions. Some of this mayhem &#8212; along with actual concert footage &#8212; was captured on film, but not seen until Festival Express&#8217;s 2003 premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, 33 years after the original event.<\/p>\n<p>I just found this poster in some old papers, and I&#8217;m very excited.  Also very old, since I was at this show, in both Toronto and Calgary!!<\/p>\n<p>I have several of these, and also a couple of copies of the original newsprint program for the events.  I think I may just look into this whole <b>E-Bay<\/b> thing&#8230;<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festival Express Poster Originally uploaded by rgdaniel It&#8217;s 1970, the year after Woodstock. And now, right here in Canada, another sure-to-be-epic rock festival is selling tickets via this very poster. The Trans Continental Pop Festival was a 1970 tour across Canada by some of the world&#8217;s biggest rock bands, including The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}