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Bookmark or Share- Avalon Ballroom - Concerts WikiThe Avalon Ballroom was a music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California, at 1244 Sutter Street (or 1268 Sutter, depending on the entrance). The space operated from 1966 to 1969, at the height of the counterculture movement.
- Six Historic Venues from 1967 That Weren't the FillmoreThe Avalon Ballroom. In 1966, when asked by the Mojo Navigator where would she would rather play — the Fillmore or the Avalon — Janis Joplin said the acoustics at the Avalon were better, and that the last time her band played the Fillmore, the audience members “weren’t really into the music” and “would walk around trying to pick ...
- The Rise of the Rock Ballroom | The San FranciscanFrom April 1966 to November 1968, the Avalon came alive nightly with psychedelic projections and the Family Dog’s ever-growing rotation of San Francisco rock bands. From the stage up to the balcony, the old ballroom proved to have exceptional acoustics and, in Helms’s view, a superior dance floor.
- Avalon's spirits rising / Restored music hall holds the city's pastThe Avalon Ballroom is open for music again for the first time since 1968. Big Brother and the Holding Co., Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and all the others called this second...
- Avalon Ballroom - Boulder DanceIn the main ballroom at the Avalon featuring Zydeco greats: Step Rideau and the Zydeco Outlawsyde, Da, Doors open at 6:30, Zydeco dance lesson at 7:00 and live music 8-11 in addition to the music, there will be a Costume Contest with prizes, Cajun food for sale, complimentary King Cake…
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