The Grass Roots are one of five acts that make up the Happy Together Tour, which is the headline show Sunday at Riverbend on the Coca-Cola stage.WIN VIP TICKETS!
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Riverbend’s Happy Together Tour should evoke a stronger sense of nostalgia for Diane Brennan Knapp of Auburn, Ala., than it does for most festivalgoers.
When she was growing up, said Knapp, 57, her father and uncles owned radio stations throughout the Southeast and frequently produced shows by artists of the era. She got to meet all of the acts headlining on the Coca-Cola Stage tonight.
The Happy Together Tour features five acts whose music topped the charts in the 1960s and ’70s: Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, The Grass Roots, The Buckinghams, Flo & Eddie of The Turtles and Gary Puckett and The Union Gap.
“My dad (Cyril Brennan) and his brothers had four stations then — WFLI in Chattanooga, WVOK in Birmingham, WBAM in Montgomery and WAPE in Jacksonville. The shows were presented at each city, and the groups did a traveling circuit of sorts. We always went to the Birmingham and Montgomery shows, except for the time we went to Jacksonville to see The Beatles. The Rolling Stones did shows in Birmingham only,” she said.