Holland Pop Festival

{{Infobox music festival

| name = Holland Pop Festival
(Kralingen Music Festival)

| image =Optreden op Holland Popfestival in het Kralingse bos, 1970 - 25.jpg

| caption = Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane)
at Kralingen

| location = Rotterdam, Netherlands

| years_active = 1970

| founders =

| dates = 26–28 June 1970

| genre = Rock, pop.

| attendance = ~100,000

| capacity =

| website =

}}

The Holland Pop Festival, also known as the Kralingen Music Festival, was a pop and rock music festival held in the Kralingse Bos, in the Kralingen neighbourhood of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, from 26 to 28 June 1970.{{cite web|title=Stamping Ground album|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stamping-Woodstock-European-Celebration-Kralingen/dp/B002ZG3C7K|access-date=4 October 2011}}

History

Performing bands included The Byrds, T. Rex, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the headlining Pink Floyd. Approximately 100,000 attended. Festival posters show that the festival was billed in Dutch as Pop Paradijs and 'Holland Pop Festival 70', and that the main investor was Coca-Cola.{{cite web |title=Family Bandstand - 1970 |url=http://www.familybandstand.com/holding-the-compass/1970-2 |access-date=4 October 2011}} In both English and Dutch, the festival is also known by the English name Stamping Ground, and is often billed as the European answer to Woodstock.{{cite web |title=Stamping Ground Rotterdam Festival 1970 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ZjbY45PqA |access-date=4 October 2011}}{{cite web |title=Kralingen Popfestival 1970 – Stamping Ground |url=http://kralingenpop1970.weblog.nl/ |access-date=4 October 2011}} It took place approximately one year after Woodstock, and two months before the third 1970 Isle of Wight Festival (the first two being held in 1968 and 1969).

CountryJoeMcDonaldKralingen1970.jpg|Country Joe McDonald

Optreden op Holland Popfestival in het Kralingse bos, 1970 - 02.jpg|Mungo Jerry & Ray Dorset

StonetheCrowsKralingen1970.jpg|Stone the Crows

TheFlockKralingen1970.jpg|The Flock

RogerMcGuinnKralingen1970.jpg|Roger McGuinn

The Festival became an influential event, as it turned out to be the actual beginning of the Dutch tolerance policy towards marijuana.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} The many present undercover cops did not arrest any of the users or small traders: it became clear that there were just too many, and all of them peaceful.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

In 1971, a documentary about the festival appeared, titled Stamping Ground, created by Hansjürgen Pohland aka Jason Pohland and George Sluizer. The film was made for an international audience and is also known under the titles Love and Music, and in Germany Rock Fieber. Also, several books and exhibitions have been dedicated to the event. A triple lp-boxset was released in 2010.

The Dutch Festival 1970 (Kralingen) was organized by Foundation "Holland Pop Festival" (Piet van Daal, Georges Knap, Toos v.d.Sterre, Berry Visser)

On 21 September 2013, a memorial has been unveiled in the Kralingse Bos area, to commemorate the first multi-day open air popfestival on the European continent.{{cite web |title=Monument for the Holland Pop Festival 1970 |url=https://www.cbkrotterdam.nl/en/agenda/monument-voor-het-holland-pop-festival-1970/ |website=CBK R'dam}}

Kralingen1970tickets.jpg|Ticket sales

Kralingen1970crowd3.jpg|Audience

Kralingen1970crowd.jpg|Selling "trips"

Kralingen1970crowd4.jpg|Audience

Kralingen1970camp.jpg|Campsite

Acts on the main stage

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|1=

Friday, 26 June:

It's a Beautiful Day
Jefferson Airplane
Stone the Crows
Santana
The Flock
Canned Heat
Hot Tuna
Pentangle
Quintessence
East of Eden (billed, but didn't perform)

|2=

Saturday, 27 June:

The Byrds
Family
Dr. John the Night Tripper
Country Joe McDonald
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Renaissance (billed, but didn't perform)
Third Ear Band
Al Stewart
Tata Mirando Gypsy Orchestra
CCC Folk & Blues Inc.
Supersister

|3=

Sunday, 28 June:

}}

Other performances

Several Dutch bands (including Ekseption, Focus and the Oscar Benton Blues Band) also performed, on a smaller stage (tent) in the vicinity.

Audio, video and publications

[1-DVD + 2-CD] The Dutch Woodstock. Gonzo, 2013.[http://www.platomania.eu/album/2247885/dutch-woodstock-1970/various Platomania 2013 -incl. setlist]{{Cite web |url=http://www.writteninmusic.com/rock/various-artists-the-dutch-woodstock/lang/nl/ |title=Erwin Wendt, Written in Music, juli 2013 -incl. setlist |access-date=13 August 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035323/http://www.writteninmusic.com/rock/various-artists-the-dutch-woodstock/lang/nl/ |url-status=dead }}
[3 LP records (bootleg)] Kralingen (NL, 1971)
[3 LP records (bootleg)] Stamping Ground. Kralinger (sic) Music Festival (26-27-28 June 1970, Rotterdam, Holland). Akarma Deluxe AD 535 (different setlist).
[Video] Stamping ground. Holland festival of music, prod. by Wolf Schmidt, Sam Waynberg; dir. by Jason Pohland. Den Haag, Concorde Video, 1986. Original ed.: Cine 3-planet Film, 1970 (ca. 100 min.)
{{in lang|nl}} Peter Sijnke & Marcel Koopman: Kralingen. Holland Pop Festival 1970. Haarlem, Uitgeverij In de Knipscheer, 2013. {{ISBN|978-90-6265-813-8}} With audio-CD
{{in lang|nl}} Peter Sijnke, Marcel Koopman & John Blaak: Holland Pop Festival 1970. Drie legendarische dagen in Kralingen. Rotterdam, Donker, 2010. {{ISBN|978-90-6100-641-1}}
{{in lang|nl}} Theo Knippenberg & Patty Knippenberg: Kralingen '70, 'n grote blijde bende. Utrecht, Knippenberg, 1971. No ISBN