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Lester Chambers performed at the San Francisco 40th anniversary of the Summer Of Love! 

Thousands were there... LESTER SANG for OVER 60,000 PEOPLE!
 

San Francisco Mayor Proclaims Sept. 2, 2007

Summer Of Love 40th Anniversary Day
Thousands

Expected in Golden Gate Park For Gathering of the

Tribes
100’s of Musicians to Perform at Free Summer

of Love Anniversary Concert

San Francisco, CA July 1. 2007 - San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom has issued a proclamation declaring Sunday, September 2, 2007, Summer of Love 40 th Anniversary Day in San Francisco. On that day, the 40th Anniversary Summer of Love Free Concert will take place in Golden Gate Park’s Speedway Meadows between 10 AM and 6 PM. Mayor Newsom acknowledged the 60­s movement in his proclamation which begins: "Whereas, The Summer of Love in San Francisco is internationally recognized as the birthplace of the 60's revolution that ignited a spiritual awaking that swept the world..." The full proclamation including concert information can be found at

http://www.2b1records.com/summeroflove40th/

CONFIRMED ACTS INCLUDE (as of July 15th):

  • Country Joe McDonald
  • Taj Mahal
  • Lester Chambers (from The Chambers Brothers)
  • Canned Heat
  • New Riders of the Purple Sage
  • Jessie Collin Young (From the Youngbloods)
  • Banana (From the Youngbloods)
  • Jerry Miller Band (from Moby Grape) featuring Tiran Porter (from the Doobie Brothers) and Dale Okerman (from the Doobie Brothers)
  • Michael McClure with Ray Manzarek (from the Doors)
  • San Francisco’s First Family of Rock (TBA)
  • Brian Auger
  • Nick Gravenites Band with David Laflamme
  • Dickie Peterson of Blue Cheer
  • Chris and Lorin of the Rowan Brothers
  • The Alameda All Stars (from Gregg Allman Band)
  • Terry Haggerty (from the Sons of Champlin)
  • Tony Lindsay (Santana)
  • Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks
  • George Michalski - Pete Sears Dueling Keys
  • Freddie Roulette
  • Ron Thompson
  • The Charlatans
  • Leigh Stephens (Blue Cheer) and Greg Douglass (from Steve Miller) and Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship) and Melissa Olsen
  • Essra Mohawk (from the Mothers of Invention)
  • Brad Jenkins
  • Barry “The Fish” Melton
  • The All Night Flight featuring David Denny and Steve McCarty (from Steve Miller), Jack King (from Cold Blood)
  • Merl Saunders (supporting the effort)
  • Squid B. Vicious
  • Jim Post (Friend and Lover, Siegel Schwall Blues Band)
  • Fayette Hauser and the Cockettes
  • Terrance Hallinan (former SF DA)
  • Ruth Weiss (Beat Poet)
  • Richard Eastman (marijuana initiative)
  • Lenore Kandel (Beat Poet)
  • Paul “Lobster” Wells (MC)
  • Dr Hip MC (Eugene Schoenfeld)
  • Artie Kornfeld (Producer of Woodstock)
  • Wavy Gravy
  • Mouse man (Bagpipes)
  • Leigh Davidson (Haight Ashbury Medical Clinic)
  • Bruce Latimer (Bruce Latimer show)
  • Rabbi Joseph Langer
  • Bruce Barthol (Mime Troup)
  • Doug Green (MC)
  • Howard Hesseman (schedule permitting)
  • Benjamin Hernandez (Harts hands and Elders)
  • American Indigenous people’s, Agnes Pilgrim and 13 Grandmas (schedule permitting)
  • Lakota War Pony’s and Harry Riverbottom (Chippewa), Merle Tendoy (6 th generation of Sacagawea ) Shonie
  • Chief Sunne Reyna, Fishbone
  • Iroquois Tribe
  • Dakota Tribe
  • Emit Powell and the Gospel Elites

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