The
Texas International Pop Festival was a music festival held at Lewisville, Texas, on Labor Day weekend, August 30-September 1, 1969. It occurred two weeks after
Woodstock. The site for the event was the newly-opened
Dallas International Motor Speedway, located on the east side of Interstate Highway 35E, across from the Round Grove Road intersection.
The festival was the brainchild of Angus G. Wynne III, son of Angus G.
Wynne, the founder of the Six Flags Over Texas Amusement Park. Wynne was
a concert promoter who had attended the
Atlanta International Pop Festival on
the July Fourth weekend. He decided to put a festival on near Dallas,
and joined with the Atlanta festival's main organizer, Alex Cooley,
forming the company Interpop Superfest.
Artists performing at the festival were:
Led Zeppelin, B.B. King, Canned Heat, Chicago (then called Chicago Transit Authority), Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Freddie King, Grand Funk Railroad, Herbie Mann, Incredible String Band, James Cotton, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Nazz, Rotary Connection, Sam and Dave, Santana, Shiva's Headband, Sly and the Family Stone, Space Opera, Spirit, Sweetwater, Ten Years After and Tony Joe White.