Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music

Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970
Event poster
GenreRock music, blues
Dates27–29 June 1970
LocationShepton Mallet
Years active1970
FoundersFreddy Bannister

The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music was a counterculture era music festival held at the Royal Bath and West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England on 27–29 June 1970. Bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin performed, and the festival was widely bootlegged. An 'alternative festival' was staged in an adjoining field where the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind played on the back of a flatbed lorry.

Michael Eavis attended the festival and was inspired to hold later that year the first event of what would become the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts.

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