| Piedra Roja | |
|---|---|
 Los Jaivas in Piedro Roja, c.1970 | |
| Genre | Rock music |
| Dates | 10 - 12 October 1970 |
| Locations | Santiago,Chile |
| Years active | 1970 |
Piedra Roja was a music festival inChile noted as an expression of thehippie counterculture inSouth America.[1] Following the success ofWoodstock, a similar music festival was held inChile between 10 and 12 October 1970 in the eastern area ofSantiago. Among others, the following bands performed in the festival:Aguaturbia,Los Blops,Lágrima Seca andLos Jaivas. Similarly toWoodstock, chaos marked the festival, involving problems with sound, drugs and delinquency. The festival showed for the first time that the young population in Chile during that time was a group to reckon with. It also showed the increasing social tension that would end in the1973 Chilean coup d'état.[citation needed]
The festival was organized by Jorge Gómez Ainslie and is the topic of the first chapter ofPsychedelic Chile: youth, counterculture, and politics on the road to socialism and dictatorship.[2] Jorge was interviewed about the festival for the Duolingo Spanish Podcast.[3]
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