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A list of all known dates and artists that performed at the Hyde Park Free Concerts between 1967 and 1971

1968-1971
 
1968.

June 29th.

  • Pink Floyd
  • Tyrannosaurus Rex,
  • Roy Harper.
  • Jethro Tull.

July 27th. 

  • Traffic
  • The Nice.
  • Pretty Things.
  • The Action.
  • Juniors Eyes .

August 24th

  • Fleetwood Mac
  • Family. 
  • Fairport Convention
  • Roy Harper
  • Peter Starsted #
  • Stefan Grossman #
  • Eclection *
  • Ten Years After

September 28th

( held in the bandstand not the cockpit area)

  • The Move
  • The Strawbs
  • Pete Brown's Battered Ornaments
  • Roy Harper
  • The Action #
  • Clouds
1969

 June 7th

  • Blind Faith 
  • Richie Havens
  • Donovan
  • Edgar Broughton Band
  • Third Ear Band

July 5th

  • The Rolling Stones
  • Family
  • Battered Ornaments
  • King Crimson
  • Roy Harper
  • Third Ear Band
  • Alexis Korners New Church
  • Screw

September 6th

  • Crosby Stills and Nash
  • Jefferson Airplane 
  • Grateful Dead
    ( cancelled at last moment - oh woe !)

September 20th

  • Soft Machine 
  • The Deviants
  • Al Stewart
  • Quintessence
  • Edgar Broughton Band
1970

July 18th

  • Pink Floyd
  • Roy Harper
  • Kevin Ayers. 
  • Edgar Broughton Band
  • Formerly Fat Harry
  • Lol Coxhill

September 12th

  • Canned Heat
  • Eric Burdon and War
  • John Sebastian

1971

July 3rd

  • Grand Funk Railroad
  • Humble Pie.
  • Head hands and feet

 

September 4th

  • King Crimson 
  • Jack Bruce
  • Third Ear Band*
  • Roy Harper #
  • Formerly Fat Harry

# Not listed on adverts or press -but reliable eyewitness accounts indicate that they played .

* Listed to play but probably did not .

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 (These pages include large photogalleries of the concert, most especially King Crimson and Jack Bruce. )

Concert reviews and info -1974-76( all updated Nov 2018)