Rock, including blues-rock, progressive rock, country rock, and Southern rock styles
Dates
August 10, 1974
Location(s)
Concord, North Carolina, United States
Years active
1974
Founded by
Kaleidoscope Productions, AYS and WROQ
Attendance
300,000+
Website
Scan of Newspaper Ad for Concert
August Jam was an outdoor concert held on Saturday, August 10, 1974, at the Charlotte Motor Speedway outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States. The concert promoter was Kaleidoscope Productions and it was sponsored by radio stations WAYS and WROQ. The concert featured The Allman Brothers Band, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Foghat, Black Oak Arkansas, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, PFM, Grinderswitch, and others.[1] The Eagles were booked to play, but canceled.[citation needed] It was the largest concert ever held in the state of North Carolina and one of the largest in the U.S. at that time, with an estimated attendance in excess of 300,000.[2]
^Scan of Newspaper Ad for Concert
^Fielden, Greg (2000). Charlotte Motor Speedway. MBI Publishing. p. 72.
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