Editing Monterey, California (section)

=== Music ===
The Monterey Jazz Festival began in 1958, presenting such artists as [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Dizzy Gillespie]], and [[Billie Holiday]], and now claims to be "the longest running jazz festival in the world" (the [[Newport Jazz Festival]] was established in 1954, but has changed venues since its founding).<ref>{{cite book|title = Jazz for Dummies | last=Sutro| first=Dirk| publisher = For Dummies; 2 edition|date = July 5, 2006| pages =[https://books.google.com/books?id=xvN_Jrmzi7cC&dq=started+the+Monterey+Jazz+Festival&pg=PT260 244]| isbn=978-0-471-76844-9 }}</ref>

In June 1967 the city was the venue of the [[Monterey Pop Festival]]. Formally known as the Monterey International Pop Music Festival, the three-day concert event was held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the [[Monterey County Fairgrounds]]. It was the first widely promoted and heavily attended [[rock festival]], attracting an estimated 200,000 total attendees with 55,000 to 90,000 people present at the event's peak at midnight on Sunday. It was notable as hosting the first major American appearances by [[Jimi Hendrix]] and [[The Who]], as well as the first major public performances of [[Janis Joplin]] and [[Otis Redding]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Grunenberg |first=Christoph |author2=Jonathan Harris |year=2005 |title=Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s |page=347 |publisher=[[Liverpool University Press]] |isbn=978-0-85323-929-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCLOIhHTAE4C |access-date=January 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618213823/http://books.google.com/books?id=gCLOIhHTAE4C |archive-date=June 18, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California LCCN2013630513 (cropped).tif|thumb|left|The [[Fisherman's Wharf (Monterey, California)|Old Fisherman's Wharf]] is a popular tourist attraction.]]
The Monterey Pop Festival embodied the themes of San Francisco as a focal point for the [[counterculture]] and is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the "[[Summer of Love]]" in 1967.<ref>{{cite web |last=Walser |first=Robert |title=Pop III, North America. 3. 1960s |work=Grove Music Online |editor=L. Macy |access-date=January 24, 2008 |url=http://www.grovemusic.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106012046/http://grovemusic.com/ |archive-date=January 6, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> It also became the template for future music festivals, notably the [[Woodstock Festival]] two years later.

In 1986, the Monterey Blues Festival was created and ran continuously for over two decades.<ref>[http://www.montereyblues.com/history.html Monterey Bay Blues Festival Home Page – Official Web Site!] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616152135/http://www.montereyblues.com/history.html |date=June 16, 2009 }}</ref> It filed for bankruptcy in 2012<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.montereyherald.com/article/zz/20121024/NEWS/121028478|title=Monterey Bay Blues Festival files for bankruptcy|access-date=August 16, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816010633/http://www.montereyherald.com/article/zz/20121024/NEWS/121028478|archive-date=August 16, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and was resurrected in 2017 as the [[Monterey International Blues Festival]].