Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro

Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro (also known as Festival de Avándaro) was a rock concert that took place on the night of Saturday, September 11, 1971 and became known as a milestone in the history of Mexican rock music. On that night, several major rock groups performed at an outdoor festival in front of an audience of over 200,000 people.

The event was named Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro (Festival of Rock and Wheels) because the event was originally supposed to be a sponsored car race with rock bands. Somebody advised the car racer Eduardo Lopez Negrete to include ambient music. The organizers decided to consult Armando Molina for further advice. Molina suggested including twelve bands and helped organize the event.

The concert occurred in the Valle de Bravo, a lakeside resort in Avándaro, near the city of Toluca, Estado de Mexico, two-hours from Mexico City. The concert brought thousands of young people together in peace to share and enjoy the music. The Festival took place in the aftermath of the 1968 massacre of Tlatelolco, and was under the threat of government repression. At the end of what became known as the "Mexican Woodstock", the government helped evacuate stranded attendees en masse. As a result of the festival, rock music was suppressed in Mexico for several decades.

The sons of then State of Mexico Governor Carlos Hank Gonzalez, from the PRI, attended and fostered the Festival.

Some events were filmed by Telesistema Mexicano (today Televisa) but the footage remains missing. Some of it has surfaced in the film "La verdadera vocacion de Magdalena" by Angelica Maria.Some actual film footage of the concert can be found on you tube.

Performers

• Los Dug Dug's
• Zafiro
• Soul Masters
• Sociedad Anónima
• La Ley de Heródes
• Fachada de Piedra
• Los Tequila
• El Epilogo
• La División del Norte
• Peace & Love
• El Ritual
• Bandido
• Three Souls In My Mind (El Tri)
• Mayita Campos y los Yaki
• Tinta Blanca
• El Amor

See also

• Counterculture of the 1960s#In Mexico

Notes

References

• Cruz, Octavio Hernandez (Oct-Nov 1996). "A 25 Años del Festival de Rock y Ruedas en Avandaro". La Banda Elástica. pp. 4. 
• Rodríguez O., Jaime; Kathryn Vincent (1997). Common Border, Uncommon Paths: Race, Culture, and National Identity in U.S.-Mexican Relations. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0842026738. 
• Zolov, Eric (1999). Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture. University of California Press. ISBN 0520215141. 

External links

• http://raybrazen.webng.com/avandaro
• http://raybrazen.webng.com/dugdugs
• http://robquero.tripod.com/Avandaro2.
• http://www.uaem.mx/ufm/especiales04/img_2001/2001/avandaro/index.htm
• http://www.maph49.galeon.com/avandaro/avandaroa.html
• http://www.appalachiangetaways.com/Avandaro%20Mexican%20Woodstock.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3UJL7FKc_Q&feature=related

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