Lewisville, Texas
Texas
Thirteen days after Woodstock, a small Texas town drew a hundred and fifty thousand people to hear Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin.
Thirteen days after Woodstock ended, Lewisville held its own festival. The Texas International Pop Festival drew more than a hundred and fifty thousand people in September of nineteen sixty-nine. Janis Joplin played. So did B.B. King. So did Led Zeppelin. At the time this was a lake town of a few thousand people that had only recently adopted a city charter, one of the few home-rule cities in Texas with fewer than five thousand residents. The crowd that weekend dwarfed the town that hosted it. Nothing marked the spot for decades. Then in twenty eleven, the Texas Historical Commission dedicated a historical event marker for the festival at the Hebron commuter rail station. The city now holds more than a hundred and eleven thousand people, and the field where Joplin sang is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth sprawl.
This is the first of 2 parts. The rest runs about 2 minutes and is read to you as you drive past. Hear the whole piece.
In September 1969, 13 days after Woodstock, the city hosted the Texas International Pop Festival, which drew over 150,000 spectators and featured performances by Janis Joplin, B.B. King, and Led Zeppelin.
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