Goose Lake International Music Festival

The Goose Lake International Music Festival was an outdoor rock festival held from August 7 to August 9, 1970, in the Leoni Township of Jackson, Michigan.

Approximately 70,000 advance tickets were sold, but contemporary press estimates said that as many as 200,000 people attended.

Bands performing

There were twenty-three bands scheduled to perform, in order of billing,

1. Savoy Brown*
2. Jethro Tull
3. Joe Cocker*
4. Savage Grace
5. Mountain
6. Chicago
7. RAM
8. Bob Seger
9. John Sebastian
10. Alice Cooper*
11. The Litter
12. SRC
13. James Gang
14. The Stooges
15. John Drake Shakedown
16. The Flock
17. Third Power
18. Wizard
19. Mighty Quick
20. Brownsville Station
21. Flying Burrito Brothers
22. Suite Charity
23. Ten Years After

Teegarden & Van Winkle were the festival hosts and performed as well.

Alice Cooper, Joe Cocker and Savoy Brown were scheduled to perform but did not. MC5 and Rod Stewart were late additions to the roster to replace the canceled acts. Actually, it was The Faces (including Rod Stewart) that played at Goose Lake.

External links

• Concert poster
• Detroit Metro Times article on Goose Lake Festival
• Photos [1]