Book documenting 1968 Miami Pop Festival to launch at KU

Photographer Ken Davidoff and musician-filmmaker Jack Connell, the authors behind the upcoming "The 1968 Miami Pop Festival," will celebrate their book's launch at 7 p.m. March 24 in the Kansas Union's Alderson Auditorium.

The book, to be released this month by the Lawrence-based Global Green Publications, is a collection of Davidoff's photographs from the 1968 festival along with interviews conducted by Connell. The May 1968 Miami Pop Festival was the first of its kind on the East Coast, and featured artists such as Jimi Hendrix and the Experience, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and Chuck Berry.

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