Schaefer Music Festival

infobox music festival
music_festival_name = Schaefer Music Festival


location = United States
* Central Park, New York City (site of original festival)
* West Side Piers, New York City
years_active = 1967-1976
founders = Hilly Kristal, Ron Delsener
dates = June-September
genre = Rock and Folk, including Blues-Rock, Folk-Rock, Jazz-Rock, Latin rock and Reggae.The Schaefer Music Festival (which began it's life as the Rheingold Central Park Music Festival in 1966) was a music festival which had been held in the summers between 1968 and 1976 at the Trump Wollman Skating Rink in New York City's Central Park. The series had been sponsored by F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company (brewer of Schaefer Beer) until 1976 at which point it became The Dr. Pepper Central Park Music Festival when Dr. Pepper assumed sponsorship. Due to residential noise complaints the series of concerts was moved to Pier 84 on the West Side in 1981 and became the Dr. Pepper Music Festival through 1982 and in 1983 Miller took over sponsorship of this series and it became Miller Time Concert on The Pier through 1988.

Renowned club owner and musician Hilly Kristal, who founded CBGB in 1973, co-founded the festival with producer and concert promoter Ron Delsener. The capacity of the Wollman Rink was usually limited to about 6,000 to 7,000 people, but it is reported that Bob Marley's performance in 1975 has attracted about 15,000 people. The festival was very popular, since tickets were cheap (from $1 in 1967 to $3 in 1976) and many superstars of the popular music scene have performed at the festival:

Festival lineups

1968

* August 7: The Who

1969

* June 26: Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton
* June 27: Tiny Tim, Sweetwater
* June 28: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Rhinoceros
* June 30: Flip Wilson, The Modern Jazz Quartet
* July 2: Jerry Lee Lewis, Pacific Gas & Electric
* July 5: Hugh Masekela, Willie Bobo
* July 7: Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk
* July 9: Blood, Sweat & Tears, Carolyn Hester
* July 11: Herbie Mann, Eddie Harris
* July 12: The Byrds, Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker
* July 14: Jeff Beck, Orpheus
* July 16: Ten Years After, Fleetwood Mac
* July 18: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cashman, Pistilli & West
* July 19: Cannonball Adderley, The Sweet Inspirations
* July 21: Led Zeppelin, B.B. King
* July 23: Joni Mitchell, Tim Hardin
* July 25: Mongo Santamaría, Cal Tjader, Ray Barretto, Chucho Avellanet
* July 26: Sly and the Family Stone, Slim Harpo
* July 27: Carlos Montoya, Paul Winter
* July 28: Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Jethro Tull
* July 30: Buddy Rich, Procol Harum
* August 1: The Beach Boys, Neil Young
* August 2: Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, Buddy Guy
* August 4: Dizzy Gillespie, Carmen McRae
* August 6: Little Richard, The Checkmates, Ltd.
* August 8: Tom Paxton, Gordon Lightfoot
* August 9: Herbie Mann, Roy Ayers, Sonny Sharrock
* August 11: Arlo Guthrie, Melanie
* August 15: Al Kooper, James Cotton
* August 16: Lou Rawls, Carl Holmes & the Commanders, Ruth McFadden
* August 18: Nina Simone, Montego Joe
* August 22: Tim Buckley, Times Square
* August 23: Sam & Dave, Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles

1970

* June 25: Ray Charles & The Raylettes
* June 27: Buddy Rich
* June 29: The Band
* July 1: Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Roberta Flack
* July 3: The Four Seasons
* July 6: Miles Davis Septet, Buddy Miles
* July 8: Mongo Santamaría, Cal Tjader, Ray Barretto
* July 10: Tom Rush, Melanie
* July 13: Ike & Tina Turner, The Voices of East Harlem
* July 15: Four Tops, Eddie Holman
* July 17: Stan Kenton, Four Freshmen, Chris Connor
* July 18: Little Richard, Wayne Cochran & The C.C. Riders
* July 20: Van Morrison, The Byrds
* July 22: Arlo Guthrie
* July 24: Great Speckled Bird, Ian & Sylvia, Tom Paxton
* July 25: La Lupe, Joe Bataan
* July 27: Peggy Lee
* July 29: John Sebastian, The Manhattan Transfer
* July 31: Iron Butterfly
* August 1: Dave Brubeck feat. Paul Desmond, Dakota Staton
* August 3: Jethro Tull
* August 5: Delaney & Bonnie, Duane Allman, Seals & Crofts
* August 7: Johnny Mathis
* August 8: The Impressions, Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles
* August 10: Judy Collins
* August 12: The Supremes, The Meters
* August 14: The Everly Brothers, John Denver
* August 15: Sam & Dave, Jam Factory
* August 17: Mountain
* August 21: The Guess Who, Kathy McCord
* August 22: Fleetwood Mac, Bloodrock, Zephyr

1971

* June 24: Nancy Wilson, Thad Jones & Mel Lewis
* June 28: Buddy Rich, Chase
* June 30: The Band, Happy Traum, Artie Traum
* July 7: Mongo Santamaría, Herbie Mann, Roy Ayers
* July 9: Ray Shankar
* July 10: Melanie, Janey & Dennis
* July 12: Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson
* July 14: The Supremes
* July 16: Poco, Jerry Riopelle
* July 17: The Byrds, JF Murphy and Salt
* July 19: Peggy Lee
* July 21: The Allman Brothers Band, Cowboy
* July 23: The Four Seasons, Jay and the Americans
* July 24: Cal Tjader, Willie Bobo, Joe Cuba
* July 26: Mary Travers
* July 28: Roberta Flack, Donal Leace
* August 2: Judy Collins
* August 4: Delaney & Bonnie, John Hammond
* August 6: Sha Na Na, The Voices of East Harlem
* August 7: Dave Brubeck feat. Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond, Chico Hamilton
* August 9: Kris Kristofferson, Janis Ian, Chris Gantry
* August 11: Seatrain, Moby Grape
* August 13: Robert Klein, Tom Paxton, Bert Sommer, Tony Joe White, Bobby Gosh, Carol Hall, Jonathan Edwards
* August 14: Les McCann, Cannonball Adderley, Esther Marrow
* August 16: Procol Harum, Mylon Lefevre
* August 18: Robert Klein, John Denver, Dion, Jackie Lomax, Bonnie Raitt, The Quinaimes Band
* August 20: Paul Butterfield Blues Band, James Cotton
* August 21: The Chambers Brothers, Mandrill
* August 23: Seals & Crofts, Earl Scruggs, Jerry Corbitt, The Charlie Daniels Band
* August 25: David Steinberg, Carly Simon
* August 27: The Five Satins, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Coasters
* August 28: Little Richard, The Orioles, The Harptones, The Jive Five

1972

* June 19: B.B. King, Billy Joel, Badfinger, Michael Gately & Al Kooper, Kindred
* June 24: Melanie
* July 7: Mandrill, Curtis Mayfield
* August 5: Taj Mahal, Mahavishnu Orchestra
* August 7: Savoy Brown
* August 16: Bette Midler
* August 21: The Doors
* August 25: Poco, Casey Kelley

1973

* July 25: King Crimson, Black Oak Arkansas
* August 20: Robin Trower, Mark-Almond, Foghat
* September 1: Poco, David Blue
* May 23: Lee Michaels, Terry Reid

1974

* July 8: ZZ Top
* July 19: Linda Ronstadt
* July 26: Poco
* July 27: Tim Buckley
* August 3: Bruce Springsteen, Anne Murray, Brewer & Shipley
* August 9: Aerosmith
* August 10: David Bromberg
* September 4: Bad Company, Jimmy Page
* September 7: Rory Gallagher
* August ??: Peter Frampton, Snafu

1975

* June 18: Bob Marley & The Wailers
* June 20: Journey
* June 21: Montrose, Leslie West, Thee Image
* June 25: Mirabai, Jim Dawson, Robert Klein
* July 2: Dave Mason, Pousette-Dart Band
* July 3: Hot Tuna
* July 5: Blood, Sweat & Tears
* July 14: The Marshall Tucker Band
* July 16: Three Dog Night
* July 21: Brownsville Station,Slade
* July 27: James Gang, Peter Frampton
* July 30: Poco
* August 9: Judy Collins
* August 13: J. Geils Band, Ruby Starr, Roomful of Blues
* August 16: The Charlie Daniels Band, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
* August 24: America
* August 25: Utopia, Todd Rundgren
* August 29: Aerosmith, Ted Nugent
* September 12: Melissa Manchester, Barry Manilow
* September 13: John Sebastian, Lori Lieberman, California English
* ???: Roy Buchanan, Forest Green, NRBQ

1976

* June 18: Gentle Giant, Starcastle
* June 19: Jessie Colin Young, Aztec Two Step
* June 23: Atlanta Rhythm Section, The Charlie Daniels Band
* June 28: Flight, The Sons of Champlin, Shakti & John McLaughlin
* July 3: Cheech & Chong, Utopia
* July 21: Donovan, Giba
* July 26: Nils Lofgren, Rick Derringer
* July 30: Gerard, Kingfish feat. Bob Weir
* August 2: Grinderswitch, The Marshall Tucker Band
* August 14: John Hammond, The Cate Brothers, The Outlaws
* September 1: Diane Scanlon, Gary Wright, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Johnny & Edgar Winter
* September 3: Foghat, Diane Scanlon
* September 4: David Bromberg

External links

* [http://rateyourmusic.com/list/JohnBuckWLD/schaefer_music_festival_performers__wollman_skating_rink___central_park__ny_1968_1976/ RateYourMusic.com - List of Schaefer Music Festival performers]