1970-07-04 [Sat]

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McMahon Stadium, Calgary, Canada

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Ian Tyson - guitar, vocals
Sylvia Tyson - vocals
Buddy Cage - pedal steel guitar
Amos Garrett - electric guitar
N.D. Smart - drums
Jim Colgrove - electric bass
Guest Musicians
Delaney Bramlett - guitar
unidentified-19700704-01 - organ
Jerry Garcia - electric guitar
Bill Kreutzmann - tambourine
Bonnie Bramlett - tambourine

Partial Set:
C.C. Rider

Tour
GD-NRPS Summer 1970 Festival Express
Also Appearing
Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Band, Janis Joplin, Delaney & Bonnie, Mashmakhan, James & the Good Brothers, Charlebois, Ian & Sylvia, Buddy Guy, and Tom Rush
Images
Notes
  • Alan Bershaw supplies this facebook post with a photo, video clip, and this tantalizing tidbit, Garcia is "playing a Telecaster previously owned by George Harrison - same one he played on the Apple rooftop gig!". Old TJS notes call it the "Let It Be" Tele.
  • This was a 2 day festival but the Dead and NRPS only played in the stadium in the 4th, not the 5th.
  • deadsources: July 4-5, 1970: McMahon Stadium, Calgary (Festival...
  • LIA's The Festival Express Guide provides a detailed account this tour, and more general news coverage of the tour June/July 1970: The Festival Express and June/July 1970: Festival Express in the news.
    • Torrents for Date
    Weather
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    Moonphase: 0.04
    In Attendance
    60000
    Gross
    $540,000.00