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Attendance. est. 300,000. Capacity. 55,000. The Erie Canal "Soda" Pop Festival, also known colloquially as the Bull Island Rock Festival, was a rock festival held on September 2–4, 1972, on Bull Island, a strip of land in Illinois but on the Indiana side of the Wabash River near Griffin.
- Tom Duncan and Bob Alexander
- Griffin, Indiana
- Labor Day weekend of 1972
Mar 3, 2017 · But by Thursday night, a deal was finally in place that would allow the event to move forward. Bull Island, the promoters announced, would be the site of the Labor Day Soda Pop Festival of...
- Sean Mcdevitt
- 5 min
But “Bull Island” — or what was originally called the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival — was an epic catastrophe, maybe the worst in music festival history, and well deserving of its own media franchise. Still, its organizers had every intention of following through on the event. What happened wasn ...
Aug 9, 2022 · So many drugs the cows got high: the chaotic festival that heralded Woodstock 99. According to the organisers, the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival was going to be “bigger than Woodstock”. More than 30 bands were promised for the three-day event, among them The Faces, Joe Cocker, Black Sabbath, Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles.
Aug 8, 2023 · Charles Kiesel’s September program offered at Princeton Public Library focuses on the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival, better known locally as the Bull Island Rock Festival — by far the largest gathering of Rock and Roll music fans ever in southwest Indiana and southeast Illinois.
Aug 31, 2022 · Officially named the “Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival,” it was to be held at Chandler Raceway, but Indiana officials wanted no part of a huge rock festival.
Aug 16, 2022 · NEWS. See photos from the Bull Island rock festival on the Wabash River in 1972. Evansville Courier & Press. A large crowd surveys the scene during the three-day Labor Day Soda Pop Festival at...