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I have not been able to get a schedule of the concert acts that performed at the Music Circus for the 1970 final season. I did get this email from Bill Slish:
It was a treat to run across this website. I have only one memory of the Music Circus, but it was a very enjoyable one. In July or August of 1970, my brother and I attended a Sunday concert performed by "Procol Harum", the British art rock group immortalized by their recording "A Whiter Shade of Pale" in 1967. They were my favorite group at the time and it was my first opportunity to hear them perform live in concert. The stage revolved during the performance, sometimes as a song progressed and other times it was rotated to a set position for the performance of a particular song. The band played "A Salty Dog", "Whaling Stories", "Whiskey Train" and many other selections from their first four albums ("Home", the fourth, was about to be released that fall). The group had already undergone their first major personnel change, with organist Matthew Fisher and bass guitarist David Knights departing, both replaced by multi-instrumentalist and former Paramounts band mate Chris Copping, joining pianist/vocalist Gary Brooker, guitarist Robin Trower and drummer Barrie (BJ) Wilson. I went on to see the band perform live six more times in the next two and a half years, but never in as intimate a setting.
Keep up the great work in maintaining this site and I wish I could provide you with more detail and additional dates and performances, but this was my only foray to the Music Circus.
Bill Slish
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