Organizers lovingly call the Industrial Street International Pop Festival “Geezerpalooza.”
And the nickname seems more fitting than the part about being an international pop festival. But then the title is a hat tip to the Texas International Pop Festival, staged in Denton County in 1969.
The annual event on Industrial Street isn’t a pop music fest in the contemporary sense. It’s a celebration of classic rock, with tribute bands dedicated to gods of the 1960s and 1970s airwaves.
Queen for a Day, Dallas’ Queen tribute band, will perform with Queen devotee Ginny Mac. Denton Rock, founded by Krum musician Scott Sackett, is a cover band dedicated to the Beatles, the Eagles, the Beach Boys and Linda Ronstadt.
Bar Band — anchored by Denton drummer Grady Sandlin and guitarists Tony Ferraro and Ryan Thomas Becker — stages tributes just about every Thanksgiving Day weekend, and covers music by The Band, the Boss and the Rolling Stones.
The Allmost Brothers Band — a seven-piece that claims Denton musicians Bubba Tug Turner and Eric Delegard — reinvents the Allman Brothers accroding to its whim. And finally, Dark Side of Oz bends its knee and bows its head in the general direction of Pink Floyd.
None of these groups belong exclusively to so-called “geezers,” but organizers expect the material to skew, well, older than Oaktopia, or 35 Denton.
The concert is free, but donations will go toward Serve Denton, a nonprofit agency in Denton that is creating a central campus for local nonprofits that serve health and human services for low-income Denton County families, and the Salvation Army.
Music starts at 1 p.m. Sunday outside Dan’s Silverleaf, 103 Industrial St.
— Lucinda Breeding
