Festival Express

Festival Express is a 2003 documentary film about the 1970 train tour of the same name across Canada taken by some of North Americas most popular rock bands, including Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, Flying Burrito Bros, and Delaney amp Bonnie amp Friends. The film combines live footage shot during the 1970 concerts, as well as footage aboard the train itself, interspersed with presentday interviews with tour participants sharing their often humorous recollections of the events.

Festival Express was staged in three Canadian cities Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary, during the summer of 1970. Rather than flying into each city, the musicians traveled by chartered Canadian National Railways train, in a total ofcars two engines, one diner, five sleepers, two lounge cars, two flat cars, one baggage car, and one staff car. The train journey between cities ultimately became a combination of nonstop jam sessions and partying fueled by alcohol. One highlight of the documentary is a drunken jam session featuring The Bands Rick Danko, the Grateful Deads Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, New Riders of the Purple Sages John Dawson, as well as Janis Joplin.The event, initially billed as the Transcontinental Pop Festival, was promoted by EatonWalker Associates consisting of Thor Eaton, George Eaton, and Ken Walker and the concerts were produced and financed together with Industrial and Trade Shows of Canada ITS division of MacLeanHunter Publishing Company Ken Walker developed and conceived the project from beginning to end and was to encompass the following cities ........

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