Heading: (Posters - Rock)
Author: Kelly, Alton, artist
Title: Tribute to Chet Helms at the Maritime Hall, 1994
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:
Date Published: 1994
Description:

Lithograph poster. 50.5x76 cm (19½x29¾").

Signed by artist Alton Kelley in the bottom right corner above his printed signature.

Chester Leo "Chet" Helms, often called the father of San Francisco's 1967 "Summer of Love," was a music promoter and a counterculture figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the mid- to-late 1960s. Helms was the founder and manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company and recruited Janis Joplin as its lead singer. He was a producer and organizer, helping to stage free concerts and other cultural events at Golden Gate Park, the backdrop of San Francisco's Summer of Love in 1967, as well as at other venues, including the Avalon Ballroom. He was the first producer of psychedelic light-show concerts at the Fillmore and the Avalon Ballroom and was instrumental in helping to develop bands that had the distinctive San Francisco Sound.

Fine.